The Beast Incarnate Brock Lesnar lost his WWE Title to Bobby Lashley after Roman Reigns interference and Paul Heyman turning on his client at Royal Rumble 2022 pay-per-view.
Later, on the show Brock Lesnar entered the Men’s Royal Rumble match at #30 and won the match by last eliminating Drew McIntyre. Now, it’s surprisingly reported that Lesnar wasn’t originally slated to win the Royal Rumble match.
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According to the reports of Mike Johnson of PWInsider, the original plan by WWE was for Riddle to win the Men’s 2022 Royal Rumble. It was also noted that there were a ton of changes made in the plan for the Royal Rumble over the course of the week before the final decision to have Brock Lesnar be a surprise entrant and be the eventual winner.
Mike Johnson also further reported that there was a pitch for Randy Orton to win the match as well, but Riddle was still the frontrunner until they deciding the Brock Lesnar as the winner. Randy Orton and Riddle, working together known as the RK-Bro and they recently lost their Raw Tag Team Titles to Otis and Chad Gable.
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