WWE News: Brock Lesnar Will Make A Surprise Appearance On Raw
Jan 23, 2017 at 11:42 AM
This year, Brock Lesnar started his journey to the Royal Rumble PPV by appearing on Monday Night Raw, this past week. The opening segment of the flagship show of WWE saw Roman Reigns getting a devastating F-5 from the beast incarnate. Prior to that, he had some face-offs against the likes of Sami Zayn and Braun Strowman which received a massive pop from the crowd and might have opened further options for the creative.
The good news for WWE is due to Brock Lesnar’s return to Raw, the show has finally managed to earn the highest rating of 2017, so far. As reported by cagesideseats.com, the third episode of Monday Night Raw has been able to earn 3.27 million views worldwide. In comparing to this episode, the last one where The Undertaker and Shawn Michaels appeared in special capacity managed to earn only 2.89 million views.
Furthermore, the first episode of 2017 where Goldberg was present in the Kevin Owens show, garnered 3.04 million viewers. This is the clear indication that how much attention the beast is able to generate with his each appearance. So, WWE is willing to use him more on Raw going forward to the Wrestlemania season.
This week’s WWE Raw is scheduled to take place at the Quicken Loans arena in Cleveland, Ohio. Goldberg has already been advertised for the go-home show for the Royal Rumble event. But, Lesnar was not mentioned in the WWE programming. Although, he is being advertised for the show in the arena and in WWE’s schedule.
This means he will be making a surprise appearance against Goldberg. This will be the very first time that these two might be seen under the same roof after the beast suffered that devastating loss in just 86 seconds at Survivor Series. The segment will help the creative to make the final build up for the Royal Rumble event, as well.
The segment might also see some more face-offs with the names like Roman reigns, Seth Rollins, Braun Strowman, Sami Zayn and more on the same ring. We can certainly expect that this one is going to be one blockbuster episode.