{"id":105316,"date":"2021-12-03T16:00:33","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T21:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=105316"},"modified":"2021-12-03T14:20:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-03T19:20:20","slug":"preview-wwe-smackdown-12-3-21-return-of-brock-lesnar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2021\/12\/03\/preview-wwe-smackdown-12-3-21-return-of-brock-lesnar\/","title":{"rendered":"Preview: WWE SmackDown (12\/3\/21) \u2013 Return of Brock Lesnar"},"content":{"rendered":"

WWE<\/strong> is back in the AT&T Arena in San Antonio, Texas for yet another edition of Friday Night SmackDown<\/strong>. This week’s episode is being billed as the big return of “The Beast”, Brock Lesnar<\/strong> – who was suspended last month for dismantling Adam Pearce<\/strong>. Brock Lesnar getting suspended for attacking officials is a tale as old as time, so his return isn’t that shocking. Following last week’s Black Friday Battle Royal, there is also a new number one contender for Roman Reigns<\/strong>‘ WWE Universal Championship, so there are some points to discuss. Let’s dive in to the preview.<\/p>\n

Brock Lesnar Returns to SmackDown<\/h3>\n

\"Brock<\/p>\n

As mentioned in our opening, Brock Lesnar’s return is being billed as the big, headlining draw for tonight’s show. At WWE’s Saudi Crown Jewel<\/em> <\/strong>event back in October, Roman Reigns slew Brock with the assistance of The Bloodline<\/strong>, with certain actions of Paul Heyman<\/strong> coming under scrutiny – Roman unsure of whether Lesnar’s former Advocate was actually intending to help him overcome his present-day associate. It has essentially been one great, big, love triangle between Heyman, Reigns and Lesnar and we can expect that dynamic to be further explored tonight. Additionally, Sami Zayn<\/strong> is the new contender for the WWE Universal Championship. Will Lesnar somehow usurp Zayn’s title shot ala John Cena<\/strong> and Finn B\u00e1lor<\/strong> from a couple months ago? Most likely. Sami and Roman is a strange match to do with both being on the same side of the face\/heel fence, so tonight’s return could be interesting.<\/p>\n

Not Announced But Expected For SmackDown<\/h3>\n

– Kofi Kingston<\/strong> has been away on paternity leave recently. It is believed that he may return to help out his King, Xavier Woods<\/strong>, tonight. Expect their feud with The Usos<\/strong> to resume.<\/p>\n

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WWE is back in the AT&T Arena in San Antonio, Texas for yet another edition of Friday Night SmackDown. This week’s episode is being billed as the big return of “The Beast”, Brock Lesnar – who was suspended last month for dismantling Adam Pearce. Brock Lesnar getting suspended for attacking officials is a tale as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2482,"featured_media":105317,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26,3],"tags":[57,77,52],"class_list":["post-105316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-smackdown","category-wwe-universe","tag-brock-lesnar","tag-roman-reigns","tag-smackdown"],"modified_by":"Niklas George","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2482"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105316\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105317"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}