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- Batista is not returning to WWE any time soon and if he did, it would be in early 2014 for WrestleMania season. One person close to Batista notes that he's not going to return at all if he's got anything going on for early 2014 with new movies, because that's his line of work and priority now.

- The Undertaker is currently recovering from shoulder surgery and will not be at SummerSlam. It's doubtful he will be back until his usual pre-WrestleMania return. Taker's shoulder issues are said to be pretty bad at this stage of the game.

- WrestleMania XXX would mark 11 years since Steve Austin last wrestled a match. WWE has interest in Austin working the event, if he wants to work it and can get medically cleared. There has been an idea discussed for Austin vs. Triple H with the control of WWE at stake. Austin would be representing Vince McMahon.
Besides CM Punk vs. Brock Lesnar and Daniel Bryan vs. John Cena for the WWE Title, other matches in the works for SummerSlam include:

* Kane vs. Bray Wyatt

* Cody Rhodes vs. Damien Sandow with the briefcase on the line

* Big E Langston vs. Dolph Ziggler

* A Divas match on the pre-show

The Shield will be doing something with Mark Henry and The Usos and if not, Seth Rollins and Roman Reigns will defend the WWE Tag Team Titles against Jack Swagger and Antonio Cesaro. Keep in mind none of these matches, except for Lesnar vs. Punk and Bryan vs. Cena, are confirmed.

 
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Former WWE superstar Batista has been working out vigorously in recent months and is now back to his WWE weight of 280 pounds, according to the Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

Batista dropped considerable weight when he began training in Mixed Martial Arts, where he won his unspectacular first professional fight last year. A second fight never came to fruition and Batista’s MMA gym in Tampa closed last year.

Since leaving WWE, Batista has landed a few solid acting roles, including roles in The Man with the Iron Fists (Brass Body), Riddick (Diaz) and Guardians of the Galaxy (Drax the Destroyer).

Batista has stated publicly that he “definitely” wants to return to WWE, and even named Brock Lesnar, The Undertaker and Triple H as the superstars he wants to work with. With him getting back in shape, a return to WWE might not be far off for The Animal.

 
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Storyline : CM Punk vs Brock Lesnar

Next week's Raw opens with Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman standing and talking about their loss. They talk about how Triple H was a coward that he had to use Shawn's help to win.

Suddenly music hits and Punk comes out. He confronts Paul that why is he with Lesnar instead of Punk. He says he just lost one of the most important match of his life and he is angry and wants a rematch and why isn't Paul doing anything for him and wasting his time with a loser like Lesnar.

Lesnar gets pissed and Paul asks him to go. Instead Punk steps in the ring and demands that Heyman goes to Vince and makes that rematch final. 
Then he stares at Lesnar and tells Heyman that he shouldn't waste time with both WWE and MMA reject.

Brock F5's Punk and leaves the ring as Heyman looks torn.

This can set up Brock vs Punk with Heyman as special guest referee.

This feud can continue even further as during the match Heyman can be shown screwing Punk. 

 
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 Triple H defeated Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 29. The big issue is that WWE officials want Lesnar to headline WrestleMania 30 against The Rock so he shouldn't be doing any jobs now. Regarding Rock vs. Brock, the plan is to do a subtle tease with the two on the RAw the night after WrestleMania this year. The idea is to only do a tease and not push it too hard so fans won't expect it's happening at SummerSlam.



 
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- A lot of creative changes went down within WWE around the time of this year's Royal Rumble pay-per-view. Vince McMahon hasn't been happy with the booking of WWE's undercard for a while now, which is the main reason why Eric Pankowski got fired two weeks ago.

- As noted before, the current plan is for Triple H to defeat Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 29. The big issue is that WWE officials want Lesnar to headline WrestleMania 30 against The Rock so he shouldn't be doing any jobs now. Regarding Rock vs. Brock, the plan is to do a subtle tease with the two on the RAW the night after WrestleMania this year. The idea is to only do a tease and not push it too hard so fans won't expect it's happening at SummerSlam.

 
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Brock Lesnar to Respond to Triple H Next Week, RAW in Virginia, & More.
-- Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar will respond to Triple H's WrestleMania challenge on RAW. A promo video for this aired at last night's WWE SmackDown tapings in Albany, NY. The promo will air on this week's WWE Main Event and SmackDown broadcasts.

-- WWE will run a live RAW in Roanoke, Virginia, the first RAW there in 16 years, on May 6th. The pre-sale has already started, and the code for that is WWECENA.

-- Advertised for the March 31st RAW house show in White Plains, NY is World champion Alberto Del Rio vs. The Big Show in a Last Man Standing match and John Cena & Sheamus vs. The Shield

 
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On Monday Night Raw, we all saw Triple H making his triumphant but expected return to Monday Night Raw. He came out to attack Brock Lesnar, who was left bloodied from the assault.

To clear up any confusion, that cut was legitimate. The former UFC Heavyweight Champion had to receive a reported dozen staples backstage to close the wounds.

To further clear up rumors, the spot was not planned. While the company is wanting to heavily hype up the match for WrestleMania, they have a pretty strict policy on blood to keep the advertisers on board.

Accidents happen, and WWE will convey that to network executives and others that care about that sort of thing. Since they can't fix it, the best thing that they can do is capitalize on it.

The company needs to sell the hatred between Triple H and Brock Lesnar by emphasizing the brutality of the incident from Monday Night Raw. The fact that they cannot show the bloody scene would help enhance the rivalry even more.

This basically means that WWE cannot have a straight-up match, the preferred type between big-name performers at WrestleMania, any more. Some sort of gimmick match will be needed for these two guys.

A Hell in a Cell match would be perfect for Brock Lesnar and Triple H, but that might be too much for WrestleMania. Instead, a steel cage match should suffice, as it is something that might generate interest from the media more so than a regular match would.



Rather than relying solely on The Rock to sell the event, WWE can market a double main event as the selling point. A catchy headline like "A Steel Cage Match in the Steel Jungle (New York City)" would get picked up pretty easily by writers across the country.

If there was ever a time where Triple H needs to be egotistical, now would be that time. He needs to take it as a personal challenge, both as a performer and executive, to build up a second main event for WrestleMania.


 
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Two men seem to dominate the modern-day landscape of WWE: The Rock and Brock Lesnar. The current WWE Champion shocked fans when he re-emerged as the WrestleMania host in 2011, and Lesnar elicited a similar reaction upon his return 10 months ago. Over the past year, they have both clashed with John Cena in equally epic encounters. But it was more than 10 years ago that Lesnar and The Brahma Bull first faced off with each other. 

SummerSlam 2002 marked the final step in Brock’s stunning ascent to the top of the squared circle’s ranks. But when WWEClassics.com attempted to speak with Paul Heyman about the classic main event, he was none too pleased with how we phrased our question.

“First of all, I disagree with the designation that it’s The Rock vs. Brock,” Lesnar’s longtime agent asserted. “It is Brock Lesnar vs. The Rock. Brock deserves top billing. And he deserves top billing because he won the match.”

Indeed he did. And not by virtue of cheating, Heyman was quick to remind us.

“[Brock] did not win the match with outside interference,” the mad scientist of sports-entertainment said. “In fact, The Rock hit me with a Rock Bottom through a table. I was not an equation.” 

After debuting in WWE on the night after WrestleMania X8, Lesnar ran roughshod over the entire roster, annihilating the competition and cementing his status as a legitimate threat to any competitor. Three months later, the massive rookie won the King of the Ring Tournament to earn an opportunity to challenge for the WWE Championship at SummerSlam.
The People’s Champion defeated Hulk Hogan on the night prior to Lesnar’s debut, but did not compete much over the next several months. One month before SummerSlam, at Vengeance, however, The Rock won his seventh WWE Championship, setting up the inevitable confrontation with the newly minted King Lesnar.

“Brock Lesnar defeated The Rock cleanly to become the Undisputed WWE Champion,” Heyman reminded us. “And in doing so, he put his boot on the neck of The Attitude Era and anointed himself the new reigning monarch of the WWE Universe.”

Today, the landscape is much different, but Brock and Rock have maintained their dominance. Each warrior can lay claim to being revered by foes and friends alike, but only one scenario can determine who the better man is: a rematch.


 
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Imagine, for a moment, a world in which Paul Heyman is an evil mastermind with a crew of blue-chip competitors under his guidance (a shocking notion, we know). Think The Nexus as run by a cult leader instead of a general; a many-armed entity of destruction with a silver-tongued devil and master strategist as its leader.

Of course, wrestling historians will know that this is no mere fever dream or wild speculation, but instead a history lesson in the ways of the Dangerous Alliance. For years Heyman operated with a crew of feverish acolytes that carried out the mastermind’s bidding, capturing championship gold through intimidation and trickery and blazing a trail across sports-entertainment history. The Alliance (so named after Heyman’s original nickname, Paul E. Dangerously) existed in several incarnations and organizations throughout the ’80s and ’90s — permutations of the group peppered the AWA, WCW and ECW — but always seemed to burn out just as fast as they ascended to dominance, with some kind of internal dispute typically tearing the group asunder (for example: The WCW version disbanded when Heyman departed the company; the ECW incarnation fell by the wayside thanks to Tazz sustaining injury and Sabu’s dismissal from The Land of Extreme). Frankly, these dissolutions were a blessing in disguise, as the only thing more ominous to a locker room than the notion of the old Dangerous Alliance is the possibility of its resurrection.

Oddly enough, the idea isn’t such a far-fetched notion anymore.

The possibility exists that Heyman is (or was, anyway) seeking to reform his signature stable with a new crop of talent. First, Heyman did, in fact, collaborate with Brad Maddox and The Shield to keep the WWE Championship fastened around CM Punk’s waist. Plus, Brock Lesnar sent Mr. McMahon into surgery in defense of his former mouthpiece moments before Heyman was to be fired.

The implications are — in a word — formidable. Punk (a Heyman guy from the get-go) has already shown himself to be a capable leader of men with The Straight Edge Society and New Nexus, two groups that terrorized WWE in years past. Lesnar (another Heyman disciple) is the wrecking ball who could be dispatched to destroy anything in his path. The Shield have perfected the art of hiding in plain sight, and their value as seek-and-destroy mercenaries would be literally immeasurable. Maddox, if he and Heyman can make amends, would be the ace in the hole, a crooked ref who could singlehandedly alter the course of a contest without ever laying a finger on a Superstar.

Lesnar may have inadvertently blown the lid off the whole thing by showing up unannounced, but since when has that stopped Heyman? Assuming he can finagle a way to re-sign the former WWE and UFC Champion to a contract (and assuming he can lock down The Shield full-time), the mad scientist has all the ingredients necessary to bring his experiment to WWE for the first time.

The only question remaining is, to what end would Heyman create a new Dangerous Alliance? Taking out The Rock and restoring Punk or installing Lesnar as WWE Champion? Attempting to dismantle McMahon’s legacy and place WWE in Heyman’s control? How does a stable of followers play into what appeared to be a relatively narrow game plan by Heyman — keep Punk as WWE Champion — as recently as this past Sunday?

Then again, maybe this is the wrong question. Why would a man like Paul Heyman reform the Dangerous Alliance, if that is indeed what he’s trying to do? Given his proclivities, schemes and general desire to watch the world the McMahons built burn around him, perhaps the better question is: Why wouldn’t he?