5 recent News & Rumors about Brock Lesnar: WWE's plans for WrestleMania 38, Backstage chaos with Shane McMahon, and more (February 4th, 2022)

Welcome to the post-Royal Rumble edition of our weekly roundup of WWE news stories and rumors regarding Brock Lesnar. As you may know, The Beast Incarnate lost his WWE Championship but redeemed himself by winning the men's Rumble match.

Lesnar has confirmed he will face Roman Reigns for the Universal Championship at WrestleMania 38, but does WWE have any specific vision for how the match is marketed? This question arises because of his match at Elimination Chamber, as announced on RAW.

Elsewhere, there are a couple of notes about how Brock Lesnar was backstage, at the Rumble. How was he linked to the entire Shane McMahon fiasco?

Without further ado, let's dive right into this week's most important stories regarding Brock Lesnar in WWE. Give us your thoughts in the comments section below.

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#5 Brock Lesnar is confirmed for the WWE Title Elimination Chamber Match

After Brock Lesnar announced Roman Reigns as his WrestleMania opponent on RAW, he challenged Bobby Lashley to a rematch for the WWE Championship. After some back and forth, The Beast Incarnate was eventually added to the Elimination Chamber match at the namesake event in Saudi Arabia.

Lesnar is one of five men who will look to dethrone The All-Mighty inside the dreaded structure. He teased entering WrestleMania as the WWE Champion, with his match against Reigns becoming a Title vs. Title match.

Whether or not that happens is a different story. For now, we are set to witness Brock Lesnar enter the Elimination Chamber for the first time in his career.

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#4 Plans for Lesnar vs. Reigns at WrestleMania 38

WWE might be teasing a Title vs. Title match between Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns, but that doesn't seem to be the plan. Bryan Alvarez reported on Wrestling Observer Live that there are no plans for both world titles to be a part of the Lesnar-Reigns match at WrestleMania.

"I have been told multiple times that it is not title vs title, Roman vs Brock. But, they’ve done countless storylines where both of them talk about title vs title — they’re telling you what they want but they’re not going to give it to them. So, they’re either doing that or Brock is getting beat in the Elimination Chamber and it’s part of his plan to look strong going against Roman Reigns at WrestleMania," said Bryan Alvarez.

If The Beast Incarnate does not win the WWE Championship at Elimination Chamber, he will have to be pinned inside the structure. This would be his third defeat within four months since his first match back in WWE.

#3 Corey Graves on his segment with Brock Lesnar on WWE RAW

Brock Lesnar recently left a lasting impression on Corey Graves following a segment they were both in. The RAW commentator was stunned after The Beast Incarnate mockingly asked if he should "get naked" for his weigh-in opposite Bobby Lashley, after turning up in a full cowboy outfit.

Here is what Graves said about his experience on a recent episode of Throwing Down with Renee Paquette and Miesha Tate:

"Brock asked me, very politely by the way, if I would prefer that he get naked. Let me tell you, I'm very rarely intimidated in life and I don't go around looking for a fight, but I've never felt so small in my life when you see a behemoth like Brock Lesnar offer to disrobe on global television. How do you answer that? I'm never at a loss for words," said Corey Graves.

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#2 Brock's push for him to look strong in the Royal Rumble Match

Brock Lesnar entered the Royal Rumble Match at #30 and took less than three minutes to eliminate the entire field and win the match. According to Dave Meltzer on Wrestling Observer Radio, it was The Beast Incarnate's call for it to play out like that.

He wanted to book himself strongly heading into his WrestleMania match with Roman Reigns.

“The deal basically with the Rumble was Brock was to murder everybody and that was that. That was probably Brock’s call because it was kind of said to me that Brock was gonna get exactly what he wanted and that was to get himself as strong as possible for the Roman Reigns match. Everybody was supposed to get murdered by him and they all did," said Dave Meltzer.

Brock Lesnar broke WWE's record for the shortest time spent in the Royal Rumble Match before winning it, comfortably usurping Edge's performance when he won in 2010.

#1 Backstage note on Brock Lesnar and Shane McMahon from the Royal Rumble

Shane McMahon's short-lived WWE return at the Royal Rumble will go down in infamy. He was "let go" by Vince McMahon due to his backstage behavior. Several reports have come out regarding Shane O'Mac and how he took the heat for the men's Rumble match being a disappointment.

One of them involves Brock Lesnar, who got what he wanted out of the match. Meanwhile, Shane's pitches were vetoed by Vince. This left him frustrated, according to Dave Meltzer.

“He was let go, so that’s the major thing. It all stems from the Royal Rumble and there were a lot of people that said he was very unprofessional backstage. It was just a mess. They just kept changing the match, over and over again. He wanted to do it one way, then Vince would veto it, Brock Lesnar would push for other things. Brock got a lot of what he wanted, and Shane didn’t get a lot of what he wanted, and then Shane complained to a lot of people and I guess talked down to a lot of people,” the report stated.

This ties in with Lesnar's intentions of looking as strong as possible for his match against Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 38. Shane McMahon was pushing to work with this RAW star at the event, before his reported WWE exit.