Many are speculating that Brock Lesnar may have been delivering legitimate punches to Braun Strowman’s head during the WWE Universal Title match at Sunday’s Royal Rumble event.

The incident occurred after Braun connected a stiff knee to Brock’s head. Brock immediately got up and connected with some blows that many are saying were real. The audio feed had to be silenced multiple times after it seemed like the two were taking shoot punches at each other.

You can see footage from the incident below:

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— Emmet Russell (@AussieEmmet) January 29, 2018

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Update: Taz discussed the topic on his podcast today and confirmed that the angle was a worked shoot.

What do you guys think of the angle? Should WWE be doing spots like this? Does it make the product more interesting? Sound off in the comment section below…

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Ross is intrigued by the upcoming TLC card. He doesn’t think he’s ever seen a handicap TLC match before so the main event of Sunday’s card should be very interesting to say the least. He also thinks there’s a lot of hype surrounding Asuka’s main roster debut and he’s just as interested in that match as he is the main event match.

Ross is also interested in the rumoured Survivor Series match between Brock Lesnar and Jinder Mahal. He points out that when he first heard these rumours he was automatically wondering how WWE was going to book this finish and that’s always a good thing. He suspects that Lesnar will emerge victorious because WWE needs to keep him strong if he’s going to pass the Universal Title to Roman Reigns at WrestleMania.

Ross welcomes ‘The Million Dollar Man’ Ted DiBiase to the show.

DiBiase informs that his new documentary ‘The Price of Fame’ will air next month. The documentary will talk about his career in the business of professional wrestling and the trials and tribulations that accompanied it. Ross says he was happy to lend some time to DiBiase as he was interviewed for this film, and DiBiase’s son narrates the whole film.

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While speaking to ESPN SportsCenterm Roman Reigns revealed that reason he’s not a part of the current Shield reunion with Dean Ambrosse and Seth Rollins is because he’s currently in the Universal Title picture right now.

“The main thing for me right now, I’ve been in that Universal title picture. You can ask Seth or Dean, if they were able to be in that same situation, that’s what you go for. You want to have that top title, and that’s definitely it. I’m super proud of those guys, they exemplified what makes the Shield so special [at SummerSlam]. The teamwork and just that brotherhood of just going out there and getting it done – not for yourself, but for the man next to you. It really showed why when we came in, why we were so special.”

Roman was also asked about if a full Shield reunion will happen and mentioned that hopefully in the future it may occur.

“Hopefully in the near future maybe. Not only to prolong my career maybe, because it does take it out of you running into those meatballs [Brock Lesnar, Braun Strowman, Samoa Joe] for 30 minutes at a time, but there’s just some kind of magic when the three of us get together and we’re just moving on all cylinders. It always seems to be a great time for the crowd.”

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WWE is trying to keep the finish for the Fatal 4-Way Universal Title match at SummerSlam under wraps, according to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter.

It’s being said that nobody on the writing team, producers, and participants (except Lesnar) will be given the finish of the match until the last minute. The idea is that the match will come off more “real” if the finish doesn’t leak. It’ll be interesting the last day or two when it comes to the betting odds for this match.

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Blocks 1 & 2:

Taz opens today’s show by speaking about the second of four straight press conferences, promoting the upcoming boxing match between Conor McGregor and Floyd Mayweather. He calls these press conferences riveting entertainment, but if they continue to do the exact same thing it’s going to get old rather quickly. He believes that these two are going to have to get physical at the last press conference, just to give the fans something to hold onto as they build towards the fight in August.

A listener calls into the show and says that he wishes WWE would just turn Roman Reigns heel, and he believes that even Reigns wants to turn heel at this point. Taz agrees with the caller, and says that for the longest time he thought Reigns was determined to get over as a babyface, but as of late it sure seems like Reigns has embraced the heel overtones of his character.

Taz wonders if we’ve seen the last of Braun Strowman vs. Roman Reigns, because if WWE wanted to keep Strowman off television for a while they wouldn’t have shown him walking out of ambulance at Great Balls of Fire. The caller says that he has heard rumours that WWE if preparing for a Fatal 4-way match at SummerSlam for Universal Title between Strowman, Reigns, Samoa Joe and Brock Lesnar. Taz says he’ll be surprised if that happens.

Taz expects we’ll see Strowman back on RAW by next Monday, and then we should get some answers as to where WWE is heading with him creatively moving forward.

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WWE announced that Big Cass will face Enzo Amore at the WWE Great Balls of Fire Event. Here is the updated card:

WWE Universal Title Match
Samoa Joe vs. Brock Lesnar

RAW Women’s Championship
Sasha Banks vs. Alexa Bliss

Ambulance Match
Roman Reigns vs. Braun Strowman

Cruiserweight Title Match
Akira Tozawa vs. Neville

Bray Wyatt vs. Seth Rollins

Big Cass vs. Enzo Amore

Great Balls of Fire takes place on July 9th from the American Airlines Center in Dallas. As always, we will have live play-by-play coverage of the event.

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As previously noted, Roman Reigns will be kicking off tonight’s episode of RAW to make his SummerSlam announcement. It’s being speculated that Roman will announce that he wants to face the winner of the Great Balls of Fire pay-per-view match of Samoa Joe vs. Brock Lesnar.

With Braun Strowman now being cleared to return to action, Bryan Alvarez speculated on today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Live that Strowman will return on tonight’s show to continue his feud with Roman Reigns. It’s expected that this will lead to another match with between the two, with the winner getting a shot at the Universal Title at SummerSlam.

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Dave Meltzer reported on the latest installment of Wrestling Observer Radio that Brock Lesnar’s Universal Title defense at the Great Balls of Fire event against the winner of Sunday’s Fatal Five Way #1 contender’s match will be a quick program.

Meltzer explained that with Braun Strowman slated to face Brock Lesnnar at SummerSlam, there will be no rematch against who challenges him at Great Balls of Fire. Meltzer indicated that either Seth Rollins or Finn Balor will win Sunday’s match at Extreme Rules for the opportunity to face Lesnar.

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Dave Meltzer mentioned on today’s episode of Wrestling Observer Live that plans Braun Strowman and the WWE Universal Championship would be discussed in a meeting today with WWE officials. The meeting was supposed to take place yesterday, but for unknown reasons it didn’t happen.

Meltzer mentioned that the company is hopeful that Strowman can be cleared to return to action by July. The feeling is if he can only be out of action for a month, the scheduled bout against Brock Lesnar for the WWE Universal Title won’t have to be put off. If Braun is unable to return in time for the July pa-per-view, Finn Balor and Seth Rollins would be the top candidates as possible replacements at the Great Balls of Fire event. Braun vs. Brock would then be pushed back to the SummerSlam event.

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