JR Says Brock Lesnar Won't Return To WWE in 2012

- Will Brock Lesnar return to WWE full time or part time? For those that know Brock well, the answer to this question is actually quite simple. It's NO. Brock dislikes, putting it mildly, traveling. Plus, he doesn't need the money even though he's smart enough to not turn down a big payday if the lay of the land is to his liking. That's why the UFC thing was good for him because he could earn big money by traveling 2-3 times per year to fight. I could see Brock doing a major, one off WWE appearance ala a Wrestlemania, but not this year, and doing so while not even making the live Raw events that lead into it. I could also see WWE traveling to Brock to shoot vignettes to build whatever match that he might be booked. For fans who think that Lesnar will return to make a significant amount of TV dates only and then only work a handful or so of PPV's, I hate to burst your bubble, but in my opinion that simply isn't happening. Of course, the Lesnar to WWE rumors will persist TFN but I'd be shocked to see Brock Lesnar remotely near a WWE event in 2012.

You can read JR's first blog post of 2012 over at his website jrsbarbq.com. Meanwhile Chris Jericho, who returned to the WWE himself at last night's Raw SuperShow in Memphis, Tennessee wrote on Twitter "Lesnar just took a dive..." claiming that Lesnar purposefully lost early in the match against Alistair Overeem on Friday night though Jericho has since been heavily criticised for these comments along with the websites that have taken the claims seriously and wrote one thousand word articles trying to figure out whether Lesnar did take a dive or not.