On Monday, Fightful Select broke the news about a pitch made to Stone Cold Steve Austin to wrestle Roman Reigns at WWE WrestleMania 39. Austin was reportedly offered an “enormous” amount of money to do the match.
On today’s Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer stated that the opponent pitched for Austin was actually Brock Lesnar.
“The [Austin] match that was not Roman Reigns, it was Brock Lesnar,” Meltzer said. “But as you can tell pretty much by the show [last night], it’s not happening.”
Meltzer added that plans can still change but Austin-Lesnar seems unlikely right now: “It’s not on. Something can happen now. It’s been talked about probably for months. I know when that Brock Lesnar-Gunther thing came up, I was told immediately that’s not happening or that’s not the idea right now, maybe it’s gonna happen now but the idea was something that’s a secret. Austin was that secret. The match is not on and it looks like it’s gonna be Lesnar with Lashley, based on the show tonight. I don’t have that confirmed that it’s a WrestleMania. Obviously, they will likely be in the Rumble and probably feud and whether that means Montreal [at Elimination Chamber] or WrestleMania, I don’t know but it feels like it’s probably something to do with WrestleMania.”
On Reigns, Meltzer said, “As far as Roman Reigns, I don’t know but I figure that whatever Roman Reigns’s situation will be we will know on Saturday night based on who wins the Rumble.”
Last month, WrestlingNews.co first reported about plans for a match between Lesnar and Gunther. In recent interviews, Gunther has also expressed interest in wrestling Lesnar at WrestleMania.
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