Jim Ross On If There Is A Divide Backstage With Brock Lesnar, Lesnar – Chris Jericho WWE Incident

Jim Ross was a guest this past week on The LAW: Live Audio Wrestling and the full interview can be heard at this link. They sent us these highlights, transcribed by Sam Pierce.

BROCK LESNAR VS. RANDY ORTON FINISH AT SUMMERSLAM:

“Well, I haven’t talked to anybody in WWE to find out exactly what the original gameplan was. You can start putting two and two together and it certainly seemed like that they were shooting for the stoppage to some sort or at least that was my impression. When you try to bust somebody open with an elbow above the eye or a hit or whatever it was intended to be, I have a hard time believing it was intended to be in the head but nonetheless, maybe I’m wrong. It is an in-exact science, John. Using a blade is a lot more efficient, quite frankly, even though it sounds barbaric, it is barbaric and all that and I’m not condoning it, don’t get me wrong. To be more efficient and safe, quite frankly less painful the blade would have been the way to go in that deal but I know that is not any place.

“So, I thought – obviously, it got carried away but I don’t know what we expect with those hardways. Like I said, there’s no exact science to it and even back in the seventies, I talked to old time wrestlers that used to have those hardways done to them or they would execute them, it is a real bizarre art form so to speak and that is probably using the term loosely. I know guys that could wrestle guys, hit it one time right there what they needed or guys that beat them to death before they succeeded so it’s really an all over the road type thing so I don’t know. I didn’t have an issue with the intended finish or what I perceive the finish to be. It was somewhat disturbing and thought provoking, water-cooler talk for sure with the end result. So, I don’t know – I guess it would be a win, so to speak because quite frankly, we’re still talking about that finish and we haven’t talked about any other finishes at Summerslam other than that one.”

LESNAR AND POSSIBLE DIVIDE IN THE WWE LOCKER ROOM:

“There is always a divide in the locker room between the main event guys and the money they claim to make and the rest of the roster in their current roles. I’ve always said this, when there is unrest in pro wrestling, it’s usually one of the two C’s, cash or creative and Lesnar’s ability to generate large sums of cash for himself I’m sure is a little bit uncomfortable for some people. He and John Cena are the two guys in WWE that are actually over. Everybody else is just trying to get over. That is not a …

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