WWE Rumor Roundup: Current Champion goes off-script on RAW, Samoa Joe relives real-life fight, Bad news for popular Superstar - 11th January 2020

Welcome to another edition of the daily WWE Rumor Roundup where we bring you the biggest stories and rumours from the day. It has been an eventful week in the world of wrestling considering that Royal Rumble is just a few weeks away.

On the last edition of the Rumor Roundup, we talked about the future plans for Braun Strowman as well as a current RAW Superstar being tipped to join AEW soon. Today, we will talk about Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman going off-script on RAW, Samoa joe's real-life fight and more.

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#5 Jerry Lawler talks on Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman going off-script

Jerry 'The King' Lawler spoke about Lesnar and Heyman's unexpected and unplanned actions this week on Monday Night RAW. The Hall of Famer revealed on his podcast that the segment where Heyman and Lesnar approach the RAW commentary team from behind was not at all planned.

We could just see the cameras and we just assumed that they [the viewers] are seeing us, and all of a sudden I feel this hand on my shoulder and I’m like, ‘What the hell?’ and it’s Brock Lesnar, and he’s brushing aside and walking past me.

“Then I look over to my right and there, of course, is Paul Heyman, and he said, ‘Come on, come on, King, talk nice, talk nice,’ and that was totally off the top of his head and I had no idea they were going to be there.”

(H/t: Sportskeeda)

Paul Heyman made a major announcement on behalf of Brock Lesnar this week on RAW, saying that The Beast will be taking part in this year's Royal Rumble match despite being the WWE Champion. Not just that, Lesnar will be entering at the number one position in the match.

Rumors have suggested that WWE is planning a WrestleMania match between Lesnar and whoever eliminates the WWE Champion from the Royal Rumble match, even though there is no word yet as to who that Superstar might be.

Read about: Latest Rumors from WWE here

#4 Samoa Joe recalls being involved in a real-life fight

While speaking to Corey Graves on After the Bell podcast, Samoa Joe recalled an incident where he chased down and fought a person who had hit him from behind while he was playing poker with AJ Styles and Christopher Daniels.

Joe revealed that he believed this person was trying to rob them of the money on the table and even the 'voice of reason' AJ Styles told Joe to go after this person.

I see this guy running and I catch up with him. By that time I think I was incensed. As has been described to me by you [Graves], Chris Abyss [Joseph Parks], Daniels and AJ, I grabbed him by the throat, lifted him off the ground, had him up against the wall, and was preparing to launch several rounds of punches into his face when the hotel staff and several other people had informed me that the police were on the way. They finally peeled my hands off his throat, pulled me back and we calmed down.” (H/T: Sportskeeda)

#3 Unfortunate news for Humberto Carrillo

The master of 619 lost his United States Championship to Andrade at a WWE Live event show in an unexpected fashion. However, The Wrestling Observer Newsletter has reported that Andrade winning the US Championship was always part of the plan.

However, it wasn't Rey Mysterio who was supposed to feud with Andrade after he won the title. In fact, the feud was set for Humberto Carrillo and Andrade, which was later changed to a program between Mysterio and El Idolo.

The title change wasn’t a change of plans. Andrade was planned for the title, which is why he lost twice to Humberto Carrillo, to get Carrillo into the U.S. title chase. That was planned several weeks back but the NXT angle with A.J. Styles led to some changes and Carrillo lost steam, so they went with Mysterio. (H/T: Sportskeeda)

Humberto Carrillo has been out of action ever since Andrade took him out during the gauntlet match for the US Championship number one contender on RAW. Do you think Rey Mysterio will become the next US Champion?

#2 Attempts being made by WWE to retain The Revival

There have been a lot of rumors flying around as of late that Scott Dawson and Dash Wilder will be leaving WWE once their contracts with the company are over. The two have insinuated that they are not happy with WWE and some reports even stated that Vince McMahon doesn't see anything special in them.

It was almost a given that The Revival will be joining AEW once they leave as they were being turned into a comedy act on SmackDown. However, Fightful.com has reported that WWE is allegedly 'throwing everything' at the former Tag Team Champions to convince them to stay.

SportsKeeda's Tom Colohue had also stated that WWE is confident that The Revival will not be quitting. He also stated that WWE isn't afraid of interest from AEW either.

“It's also said that most top executives and names of influence have always wanted to keep The Revival around, it's a matter of Vince McMahon being on board with the things they want, and their act in general.” (H/T: Sportskeeda)

#1 Update on Nia Jax's return

While there has been a lot of speculation on a possible return by Nia Jax at the Royal Rumble, unfortunately, that might not be the case. Sportskeeda's Tom Colohue has reported that even though she is recording some documentary stuff for the WWE, her return will not be happening at the Royal Rumble.

She has been recording some backstage WWE documentary stuff which is leading to her return which is expected to be moderately soon - probably not as soon as the Royal Rumble. And I don't think they will involve her in the build to WrestleMania either because there'll be a lot of focus on the main stars.

However, I think a very realistic target for Nia Jax would be the Women's WrestleMania Battle Royal. I think that would be a good place for her to return. She could dominate that and potentially win it and that would be a good way to get her back in the system.

Nia Jax was part of, not one but two Royal Rumbles last year and her absence at the PPV will surely be noticed by the fans.