News and Rumor Roundup: Why AEW wasn't interested in signing Brock Lesnar, How Jon Moxley was convinced to sign with All Elite Wrestling

#4 Why AEW wasn't interested in signing Brock Lesnar

Brock Lesnar

Brock Lesnar made his WWE return at SummerSlam, coming out at the end of the main event to confront Roman Reigns who had just retained the Universal Championship after vanquishing John Cena. After the show went off the air, he also destroyed Cena.

In a recent report on the Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer revealed why AEW were never interested in bringing in Lesnar. He stated that the price was just going to be too high, especially when you compare it to the number of dates.

Meltzer added that Brock Lesnar was brought back by WWE mainly to counter CM Punk's All Elite Wrestling debut rather than to try and keep The Beast Incarnate from the clutches of Tony Khan's promotion:

"As always, Lesnar's timing got him an even better deal. While as best we can tell there was nothing to AEW wanting him because the money to get him would be so high, one story has it that Vince McMahon didn't know that, but it appears it wasn't so much McMahon or FOX fearing his going to AEW as much as needing a big news story for the weekend as a counter. Lesnar was virtually certain to come back for the program with Reigns, but that was considered for months later (if Rock didn't do WrestleMania in 2022) or years later (if he did)," said Dave Meltzer.

AEW is expected to make more signings following CM Punk's debut, including that of Daniel Bryan who could debut as soon as All Out. More on that HERE.