13 New Directions For WWE After SummerSlam 2026

By all accounts, Brock Lesnar has taken a keen interest in helping to develop Oba Femi behind the scenes, and he just put Oba over inside Hell In A Cell before raising his arm on the ramp afterwards. This was the ultimate bit of anointing from ‘The Beast’. He let Oba kick out of 3 back to back F5s, as well as a Tombstone Piledriver onto the exposed boards under the canvas, and he generally looked like a fading force against a new rising one.

Is a WrestleMania 43 retirement looming? 

Incredibly, some folks on social media have been reading just a wee bit too much into all of The Undertaker tribute spots that Brock laced this match with. On Saturday, he performed the sit-up and laugh spot, and then did the throat slash, Tombstone and tongue out pin sequence. All of that was a homage to one of his dear friends and greatest rivals: Hardcore Holly. No, only joking. It was 'Taker, obviously.

There's no way we're getting Brock vs. Undertaker at 'Mania though, X. Calm down.

WWE painted themselves into a corner by having Lesnar leave his gloves in the middle of the ring after putting Femi over clean at WrestleMania in April. Or, maybe Brock went into business for himself on that occasion. Either way, it meant he couldn't do the same thing and tease retirement at SummerSlam, which is slightly regrettable considering his post-match speech.

Lesnar is rather visibly moving away from active wrestling in 2026. We could be watching the true end of a WWE great unfold before our very eyes. Brock probs wouldn't be able to resist that payoff for a trip to Saudi Arabia, right enough.