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#4 Original plans for Brock Lesnar at Crown Jewel

Brock Lesnar defeated long-time rival Cain Velasquez in under three minutes at Crown Jewel. The much-hyped match between the former UFC rivals turned out to be a complete dud, as it was nothing more than a squash match.

While WWE essentially built the Crown Jewel event around Lesnar and Velasquez's history in UFC, where Cain had defeated Brock to win the UFC Heavyweight Championship nearly nine years ago, the original plans for 'The Beast' included a possible match against Tyson Fury, who eventually faced Braun Strowman at the event.

Dave Meltzer revealed why WWE chose Cain Velasquez as Lesnar's opponent instead of Tyson Fury:

Fury said that the original idea talked with him about was a Crown Jewel match with Lesnar, but the idea changed when they were able to sign Velasquez. According to those internally, Lesnar vs. Fury was discussed but never got past early discussions, likely due to Velasquez having the storyline from the past and being the bigger star in the U.S. market, which is WWE’s primary market. And for Saudi Arabia, it wasn’t the matchups that were important as much as delivering matches with Fury and Velasquez.

(H/T: Sportskeeda)