{"id":487124,"date":"2026-02-24T06:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/487124\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T06:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T06:40:09","slug":"brock-lesnar-open-challenge-for-wrestlemania-sure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/487124\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Lesnar open challenge for WrestleMania? Sure!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">When WWE announced Brock Lesnar would be returning to television on this week\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cagesideseats.com\/wwe\/420285\/wwe-raw-results-live-discussion-feb-23-2026-aj-styles-tribute-brock-lesnar-cm-punk-liv-morgan\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">episode<\/a> of Monday Night Raw, there was little doubt what he would be back for \u2014 to figure out who he would be wrestling at WrestleMania 42 come April in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That\u2019s because they didn\u2019t actually make it clear through Paul Heyman\u2019s relatively brief promo in Atlanta. Instead, he simply laid out the reason Lesnar is one of the most important figures in the industry still to this day \u2014 he broke Undertaker\u2019s streak at WrestleMania, you\u2019ll remember \u2014 and why everyone should want to go up against him in a match at the biggest show of the year. But when they were walking through the locker room, they couldn\u2019t find any takers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">So they\u2019re doing an open challenge from now until the big event, even giving out the dates Lesnar will be appearing on television in the lead up to \u2018Mania. At any point during that time, someone can step up and accept the challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Oba Femi seems like the clear choice to me, and they ran a segment featuring the man himself just before Lesnar\u2019s appearance but he\u2019s got business to handle with Rusev first. GUNTHER is also out there as a compelling potential option.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Who do you want it to be?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When WWE announced Brock Lesnar would be returning to television on this week\u2019s episode of Monday Night Raw,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":487125,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,165350,4366,8316],"class_list":{"0":"post-487124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-wrestlemania-42","10":"tag-wwe","11":"tag-wwe-raw"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=487124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/487124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/487125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=487124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=487124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=487124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}