Former WWE Creative Writer On How He Would Book Goldberg Vs. Brock Lesnar At Survivor Series

Recently on the Wrestling Inc. Podcast, former WWE Producer Court Bauer shared his thoughts about how WWE should build the feud between Bill Goldberg and Brock Lesnar, leading to their WrestleMania 20 rematch at this year’s WWE Survivor Series.

Bauer thought that the Brock Lesnar segment from this week’s episode of WWE Monday Night RAW from Minneapolis, Minnesota missed the mark because getting the crowd to support Goldberg over Lesnar, the local product, would have been a tall order.

“Bill Goldberg gets a hero’s welcoming last week. This week, ‘Goldberg sucks’ chants. Why? Because you had the homecoming, you had the hometown hero, Brock Lesnar, in his market. Why would you book him in Minnesota? Why? I would have just done nothing. I would have done video packaging to represent this. It’s not like Survivor Series is next week, right? It’s a month away! Why did you do this? Anybody in the business at any point should know you’re set yourself up for disastrous situation, which is kind of what they had. I’m not saying the sky is falling, but it wasn’t good for Bill Goldberg and it wasn’t ideal for what they were building.”

Also, Bauer said that Lesnar’s mouthpiece, Paul Heyman, made the “curious” decision to lay out a lot during that promo, which made it possible for the crowd get more involved.

“It was very weird and it was a lesson to be learned though. You have to protect your guys. And looking at what they did on Monday night, it was really weird because you’re in Brock’s hometown, Minneapolis, Minnesota, where he lives now, essentially, where he made his name at the University of Minnesota. And you have Paul Heyman wearing a purple tie representing the [NFL’s Minnesota] …

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