{"id":849357,"date":"2026-08-07T11:56:13","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:56:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849357\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T11:56:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:56:13","slug":"backstage-update-on-the-wwe-future-of-brock-lesnar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/849357\/","title":{"rendered":"Backstage Update on the WWE Future of Brock Lesnar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former WWE Champion Brock Lesnar announced his in-ring retirement <a href=\"https:\/\/411mania.com\/wrestling\/brock-lesnar-announces-retirement-pat-mcafee-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">earlier this week<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PatMcAfeeShow\/status\/2084698904994427136\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">The Pat McAfee Show<\/a>. However, is that really it for The Beast Incarnate? A new report from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/fightful\/posts\/news-on-brock-165945163\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">WrestleVotes Radio on Fightful Select<\/a> has more details on Lesnar\u2019s WWE future.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Lesnar\u2019s announcement, WrestleVotes reports that there are \u201chigh-ranking officials\u201d in WWE who still believe that Lesnar will be involved in WrestleMania 43 in some capacity next year. WrestleMania 43 will be the first overseas edition of the premium live event, as it will be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, WrestleVotes Radio reports that one source said that if another match isn\u2019t in the cards for Lesnar, the former WWE and UFC Heavyweight Champion potentially headlining next year\u2019s WWE Hall of Fame Class of 2027 in Saudi Arabia is one idea that could be on the table. The same source also said that they \u201ccan\u2019t envision Lesnar walking away before one final payday in Saudi Arabia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll recall, this isn\u2019t the first time that Lesnar \u201cretired\u201d from wrestling. Lesnar left his gloves in the ring after <a href=\"https:\/\/411mania.com\/wrestling\/backstage-note-brock-lesnar-vs-oba-femi-match-wrestlemania-42-sunday\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">losing<\/a> to Oba Femi at WrestleMania 42. His profile was also moved to the alumni section. Lesnar later said he was done and \u201cretired\u201d after losing to Femi, but his defeat didn\u2019t sit well with him.<\/p>\n<p>Even WWE Chief Creative Officer Paul \u201cTriple H\u201d Levesque appeared to express skepticism about Lesnar retiring during the SummerSlam post-show press conference. He said about Lesnar, \u201cYou know as well as I do, Brock does what Brock wants. So I would take what he said at face value, and let\u2019s see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former WWE Champion Brock Lesnar announced his in-ring retirement earlier this week on The Pat McAfee Show. However,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75],"class_list":["post-849357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}