8 New Directions For WWE After Crown Jewel 2025

2. Brock Lesnar Crashing Seth’s Party?

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One tasty backstage segment at Crown Jewel revealed the mental mind games Paul Heyman is playing with Seth Rollins and the rest of The Vision. Seth didn't arrive at the building with his troops, and he wasn't around for Bronson Reed's match with Roman Reigns. Heyman referenced that behind the scenes afterwards, then said he'd organise a celebratory party for Rollins if he could beat Cody Rhodes.

Bron asked what'd happen if Rhodes won, so Heyman pretty much said the party would be cancelled and so would Seth's involvement in The Vision. How juicy. They might need to get Juventud Guerrera on the phone and ask to borrow his 'The Juice' nickname from latter day WCW after this. It was that juicy.

Seriously though - there's a party pooping surprise coming Seth's way on a future episode of Raw, isn't there? Brock Lesnar has been rumoured to be one of the names returning in time for Survivor Series so he can fill a spot in a WarGames match, and it'd make sense if Heyman was trying to teach Rollins a lesson by forcing him to team with Brock in San Diego.

That'd help WWE's writing team out and feed into the idea that not all is well between 'Oracle' and 'Visionary'. There appears to be a line in the sand between Breakker (who is coming across as more loyal to Seth at the moment) and Reed (who likes what Heyman is selling).

Things are heating up nicely. Toss Brock into the middle of it all and you could have a chaotic, fun storyline to help sell WarGames.

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