WWE Rumor Roundup: Major Royal Rumble plan revealed, Vince McMahon stops 2 Superstars' push and more – 24 December 2019 

WWE have the Royal Rumble coming up in just about a month from now, and the rumors of the matches that will take place at the pay-per-view are coming in thick and fast. Today's rumor roundup has one major update on the PPV along with a lot of other exciting news and rumors.

Are WWE trying to prevent another Superstar from joining All Elite Wrestling? Seth Rollins comments on Brock Lesnar changing their match at WrestleMania – all this and more in today's roundup.

But, as always, before we get to that, let us start with the two big headline-makers of the day:

Major Royal Rumble plan revealed

WWE have not yet announced the matches for Royal Rumble and they have also not revealed who will be involved. However, it has been rumored that Brock Lesnar will be in action at the pay-per-view.

Cageside Seats reports that the WWE Champion will go up against Cain Velasquez. The former MMA star has been pencilled in for the pay-per-view as per reports.

However, if that match does not take place, Lesnar will fight Kevin Owens or Randy Orton on the night.

If WWE doesn’t go with Cain Velasquez as Brock Lesnar’s Royal Rumble opponent, it will likely be either Kevin Owens or Randy Orton.

Vince McMahon stops 2 Superstars' push

Vince McMahon has decided not to push The Revival any more as they have not yet signed new deals. The WWE Chairman reportedly expected them to have put pen to paper by now.

WrestlingNews.co's report suggests that Vince is unhappy and wants to end their push.

Vince expected them to sign new contracts by now and they haven’t so this is what he wants to do with them. He wants to lock people in months before their contracts expire and if they don’t want to play ball then he’s going to push them as comedy guys.

The same report suggests that the tag-team duo will be turned into comical characters soon.

Seth Rollins on Brock Lesnar changing their match

Seth Rollins and Brock Lesnar battled at WrestleMania this year and the former Shield member came out victorious. The match was set to take place towards the end of the pay-per-view but was switched to the first match of the show.

Rollins has now confirmed that the rumors doing the rounds are true. On WWE 365, he revealed that it was supposed to be the 2nd last match of the night but Brock and Heyman changed the order at the very end. He said:

“In a weird way it was cool because it allowed me to just centre my focus. I didn’t have to deal with any of the distractions that you normally do with WrestleMania, and I didn’t have to get inside my own head, overthink the match, overthink the performance, all that stuff. It was just… I had to go out there and do me, which I’m pretty good at.”

WWE preventing another Superstar from joining AEW?

WWE vs AEW

WWE often do all that they can to convince a free agent to join them. However, they do not succeed all the time and Kenny Omega's move this year is the best example. He had offers from WWE and AEW on the table and opted to join the new promotion instead.

Now, WWE are reportedly trying all they can to get Killer Kross, who is a free agent after his release from Impact Wrestling, on board.

WrestleVotes tweeted: “WWE’s interest level is significantly high in signing Killer Kross. Source said he should get a similar offer to that of which was extended to Hangman Page last year. No telling if Kross will sign, but WWE is definitely pursuing him, harder than they normally pursue other FAs.”

WWE’s interest level is significantly high in signing Killer Kross. Source said he should get a similar offer to that of which was extended to Hangman Page last year. No telling if Kross will sign, but WWE is definitely pursuing him, harder than they normally pursue other FAs.

— WrestleVotes (@WrestleVotes) December 20, 2019

WrestlingNews.co have also added to this report and said that WWE have offered to make him a top star on RAW or SmackDown straight away instead of going through NXT.

“When I asked about Kross, the only thing I was told about him from someone in WWE is that, if he hasn’t already, he should get a better offer than most that have been offered and they are willing to have him start on Raw or SmackDown and fast track him into the upper card. Kross is in a great negotiating spot right now.”