5 recent news & rumors about Brock Lesnar: WrestleMania 38 plans, Original winner of WWE Day 1 title match (January 7th, 2022)

#4 Brock Lesnar will be on both SmackDown and RAW

Brock Lesnar will be a busy WWE Champion in January. When asked to comment on Lashley's win on RAW, he ignored the question and stated he would be on SmackDown this week. Roman Reigns has been medically cleared, so expect a confrontation between the two of them tonight.

That isn't it for Lesnar's streak of appearances on WWE television. The Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia, the venue of next week's RAW, announced on Twitter that The Beast Incarnate will be part of the show.

It looks like Brock Lesnar has taken up somewhat of a full-time schedule in WWE recently, having appeared nearly every week since his return from suspension.

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#3 Seth Rollins was supposed to win the WWE Championship at Day 1

Brock Lesnar's inclusion in the WWE Championship match at Day 1 forced plans to change. However, Big E was supposed to lose the title regardless, even before The Beast Incarnate was added. Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer reported on Sports Illustrated that Seth Rollins was supposed to become WWE Champion last week.

"The original scripted plan for the show was for Big E to lose the championship, but to Seth Rollins, who had tested positive for COVID-19 last week, and the champion instead lost his title to Lesnar as the result of another positive test," Meltzer said.

It would have been interesting to see what Rollins' potential title reign would have looked like, especially with WrestleMania season approaching.