Brock Lesnar Face Turn Spells WWE Exit To The UFC

Brock Lesnar completely changes his character on Raw.

Brock Lesnar turned babyface during Monday's Raw broadcast, which is the biggest indication yet that the WWE Champion is leaving in April for the UFC. He cut a babyface style promo to open the show and he later closed the show by destroying The Authority's Kane and Big Show. He's got the number one heel Seth Rollins set in his sights and that was the closing hook for the broadcast. "They turned Lesnar face," Dave Meltzer concluded on Wrestling Observer Radio, "it was a full turn in one show, which is fine, because if he is leaving they need to get the babyface run, as short as it is, they need to get it out there." The logical plan for WWE is to finish Lesnar's run in babyface mode. The star has worked solely as a heel since coming back in 2012, and there is fresh money to be made in a character switch. However, the change shows just how short sighted WWE is. They made Lesnar the biggest heel in the company at WrestleMania 30 last year. He defeated The Undertaker to end the legendary 21 year undefeated WrestleMania streak. Brock then went to SummerSlam and squashed John Cena for the WWE Championship. All of that for what? Now WWE are making Lesnar a bada*** babyface and hinging the Royal Rumble on fans wanting to see Lesnar kick Seth Rollins' a**. John Cena is just the other guy at this stage, and it looks the franchise star will be spun off for a feud with Rusev at WrestleMania 31. The Cena / Rusev programme will likely be setup this Sunday. Seth Rollins deserves credit for emerging as far and beyond the best heel in the WWE. The fact that he's also the best in-ring worker means he'll match perfectly with Lesnar - just imagine when Brock is throwing Rollins around the ring. On the other hand, maybe Brock's apparent face turn is a swerve. Maybe he'll side with Rollins this coming Sunday and beat on John Cena. However, with people in the UFC expecting Brock to come back once his WWE deal expires in April, the likelihood is that WWE are taking the title off Lesnar at Royal Rumble. Lesnar is worth a lot of money in the UFC and he's aware that a MMA comeback is now or never at 37 years of age. The WWE are probably ok with Lesnar leaving for the UFC, as his $5million a year contract has proved to be a hefty investment. The company will be hoping a quick face turn squeezes a bit more value of of Brock before he leaves. "The WWE didn't realise their own economics," Meltzer states, "they thought with the Network and the TV deals that they'd be able to afford ten Brock Lesnars." That hasn't been the case and the entire WWE / Lesnar run has been somewhat of a failure.
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