Updated List Of Brock Lesnar's Dates Through Summerslam

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http://www.cagesideseats.com/wwe/20...of-brock-lesnars-wwe-dates-through-summerslam

With rumors buzzing that Brock Lesnar will make his first WWE appearance since the night after WrestleMania tonight (June 15, 2015) onRaw, there's a list of dates that The Beast Incarnate will appear for WWE floating around the dirt screens.

Scanning the "Scheduled to Appear" section of WWE.com's events page confirms them, so it looks concrete enough to share and start picking apart. Here are the dates:

June 22 - Raw, Indianapolis
July 4 - WWE Network special, Tokyo
July 6 - Raw, Chicago
July 13 - Raw, Atlanta
July 19 - Battleground, St Louis
July 20 - Raw, Kansas City
August 3 - Raw, San Jose
August 17 - Raw, Minneapolis


There are a couple of noticeable absences...tonight's show, and SummerSlam itself. The latter is probably just a technicality. Lesnar has been featured on every August pay-per-view (PPV) since his return to WWE in 2012, and they're unlikely to leave their biggest draw on the bench for this year's big move back East to Brooklyn.

Tonight is a little more intriguing, but could be explained by wanting to keep it at least officially a surprise. The former WWE champ is an expensive surprise, however, and Vince McMahon has typically opted to promote his appearances rather than conceal them.

There are signs that things could be changing in how WWE approached booking Brock, however. The house show in Japan is the biggest example, of course, but his presence on what is traditionally a B or C-level PPV in Battleground, and on just about every Raw that builds to it (provided he does in fact show tonight) feels new.

Of course, that's likely all necessitated by the single decision to use him for July's show in Missouri. That leaves Creative with just a little over a month to explain why he's back, how his suspension was lifted and build to a match. SummerSlam is more likely to be a rematch and/or already have pieces established during the preceding months on which to lean.

Excited for Lesnar, and his Advocate, Paul Heyman, to return? Who do you see him fighting, and how should WWE set it up?

Interesting that Brock will be on nearly every Raw from now to Battleground and then half of them leading into Summerslam as well. Well, it's at least good to know that Raw won't completely suck for the next two months anyway.
 

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Awesome news! The product will go back to being exciting again.
 

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Also, despite the fact that he isn't advertised for tonight's Raw (it's possible they want to keep it a surprise), Brock and his wife Sable were seen getting off an airplane earlier today in Cleveland where Raw is gonna be held. Take that for what it's worth.
 

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I love Brock's character right now, I really do. But I also hate it. I hate it now because Brock sucks at anything he does, but I hate the fact the WWE product as of now relies so heavily on a part time guy.

I'm not trying to get off topic, but rather say that it's disappointing that we as fans are sitting here saying "now the product will be better when Brock decides to show up." I mean it sucks, yet Brock is amazing. So it's kind of a catch 22. You love and hate it.

I am so looking forward to this match and i guarantee they're planning a Rollins face turn soon...
 
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Brock is a tool.
Don't get it twisted after reading some of his book he seems like more of a decent fella than I gave him credit for.
However, I don't give a f*ck about him appearing on RAW.
If I've seen him wrestle one PPV than I've seen him wrestle many. His matches can only go in a certain direction at this point.

Since wrestling is fake and his persona is what it is booking him is relatively predictable and takes away from the prestige of seeing him on any given PPV.
Wake me up when September ends and WWE begins booking its top stars with a degree of ambiguity again.
 

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Brock is a tool.
Don't get it twisted after reading some of his book he seems like more of a decent fella than I gave him credit for.
However, I don't give a f*ck about him appearing on RAW.
If I've seen him wrestle one PPV than I've seen him wrestle many. His matches can only go in a certain direction at this point.

Since wrestling is fake and his persona is what it is booking him is relatively predictable and takes away from the prestige of seeing him on any given PPV.
Wake me up when September ends and WWE begins booking its top stars with a degree of ambiguity again.

lol I hope Sheamus is your cup of tea then because that's probably who's gonna be headlining shows as the WWE Champion when the end of September gets here.
 

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lol I hope Sheamus is your cup of tea then because that's probably who's gonna be headlining shows as the WWE Champion when the end of September gets here.
To be entirely truthful, Brock Lesnar isn't nearly as problematic as he's allowed to be. I enjoyed his initial 2002-2004 run immensely.
He's capable of putting together a good enough character, he just isn't required to under current WWE policies so why bother?
As for Sheamus he, too, is capable of performing well but I hate when WWE insults my intelligence by booking themselves into a corner

Wrestling ought to be more of an art form, no? Instead, talent is told to behave in a very linear fashion to maximize profit. It's blatant and I'm clearly bored by it.
 

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Interesting, he'll actually make more dates than I gave him credit for.