6 Ups & 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Aug 29)

2. A Confusing Confrontation

Paul Heyman Stephanie
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OK, let’s try to sum this up: Brock Lesnar is on Raw. Brock defeats SmackDown’s Randy Orton at SummerSlam, then assaults commissioner Shane McMahon. However, Raw commissioner Stephanie McMahon isn’t happy. She fines Brock $500 for his actions, a paltry amount considering his payday for the UFC bout this summer.

So Stephanie demands that Lesnar’s advocate, Paul Heyman, come out to defend his client’s actions. Heyman proceeds to get smug and try to pay the fine with 500 singles, pissing Stephanie off. She then threatens to fire Heyman as part of her quest to “avenge my brother,” claiming there’s a storm coming. Heyman decides to up the ante and tell her that the storm is named “Brock Lesnar,” but then apologizes for Brock’s actions, which Stephanie accepts and walks away.

What. The. Actual. Hell.

Can anyone make sense of any of this in terms of a storyline?

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.