Heyman, Lesnar and Cabana to WWE?, Caban explains why Punk wants to leave

- One person close to the situation notes that CM Punk mentioning Colt Cabana, Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar during his promo on Monday's RAW has to do with all three of those stars possibly coming back to WWE.

Apparently Punk recently asked for his friend Colt Cabana to be re-hired and put on the main roster, as one of the points in Punk's new deal if he should re-sign. Regarding Punk staying or going, WWE creative has been told that he's finishing up at Money in the Bank and most feel that he is still leaving, despite Monday's promo. WWE still does have an offer on the table to Punk for him to stay.

Heyman and Lesnar have reportedly either made a deal or are at least in very serious negotiations to have a business relationship with WWE. Regarding Lesnar, word is that he won't be wrestling and won't be a TV character, should he have a business relationship with WWE again. Heyman would start working with the company again under a deal similar to Lesnar, according to the report by the Wrestling Observer.

-- Wrestling Observer editor Dave Meltzer reported yesterday that Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman have either made a deal or at least are in very serious negotiations to have a business relationship with WWE. In the case of Lesnar, it is not to wrestle, nor would he be a television character. Meltzer claims Heyman's deal is similar to Lesnar's.

Award-winning Canadian mixed martial arts journalist Ariel Helwani stated this afternoon on his Twitter account that Meltzer's report is somewhat inaccurate.

He wrote, "Meltzer report on Heyman/Brock going 2 WWE, according 2 sources, is somewhat inaccurate. What is being discussed is a consumer product deal."

- Former WWE star Colt Cabana was interviewed this week by the Miami Herald and had a lot to say about CM Punk's shoot promo from RAW. Colt says that Punk's rant was almost entirely reality-based and reflected the frustrations Punk has felt in WWE since his first days with the company.

“That whole thing has been building up forever,” Cabana said. “Personally, for almost forever, his whole time there, he is able to say this to me in the comfort of my house or his house.

“From being laughed at by the trainers in Ohio Valley Wrestling to Paul [Heyman] finally bringing him up and everybody treating him like dirt, telling him he has an attitude problem and calling him the ‘King of the Indies.’ Just looking down on him, he just felt shunned his whole time there. It was a complete struggle.”

Many are still under the impression that this angle is a storyline and that Punk will remain with WWE following his contract expiring the day after his title shot at Money In The Bank on 7/17, but Punk has been burnt out for a long time and is at the point where he just wants out.

“The power of him not really caring because he was ready to leave — I always said the power of not giving a s--- is so important,” Cabana said. “He is really at the point where he just wants to get out of there. It’s too frustrating for him. If he said anything that made anybody mad, what are they going to do to him? Not re-sign him? He doesn’t want to be there."

“So I think that idea is so powerful. He is so strong in his beliefs with the straight edge lifestyle. By being how strong headed that he is, he was able to have the power to go out on television and say what probably every other wrestler has wanted to say. He made unbelievable television. He made unbelievable history in wrestling."

Punk may be on his way out of WWE, but Colt thinks his promo from RAW has the potential to change entire industry:


“He almost has the ability to change professional wrestling as we know it. It has been so stagnant and vanilla. It kind of shook up the wrestling world because of his real life frustrations.”

Could be some truth in the Brock rumour as I hear he is retiring from MMA due to health issues, so if he does go back to WWE it won't be to wrestle for that reason.

It's probably to include him in video games and an action figure or something.

And Heyman to come back into creative would be brilliant

dwindow wrote:

And Heyman to come back into creative would be brilliant

Only if he had control of what he wanted to do. Most of the time his ideas were kiboshed by Vince and Steph. He only got away with the 'Smackdown 6' tag idea a few years back because Vince was so pre-occupied with Raw being the main show. Same with the first One NIght Stand, Vince let him get on with it and didn't interfere, and it was a fantastic card.

Bring him in, "give him" smackdown, and watch it fly.

I'd also add to Bazz's point let him go to FCW and bring up whoever he likes to build them on the main roster, someone like Tyler Black could really benefit from that

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WWE officials are hoping CM Punk's RAW promo and storyline will help to generate more PPV buys for their Money in the Bank pay-per-view.

Seems obvious really!!

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In an update on the reports that Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman will be working with WWE in some capacity again soon, it's said that it will be something of a mutual project with WWE on one side, Heyman-Lesnar on the other side and some sort of middle man or conduit between the two. As we've been reporting, there are absolutly no plans whatsoever for Heyman or Lesnar to return to WWE television.