Backstage News On Why Brock Lesnar Did Not Have His Title Rematch On WWE Raw This Week, Creative Idea Nixed

As noted, despite being advertised for WWE Raw this week by WWE and The Barclays Center, Brock Lesnar did not appear on the show, and in his place, Paul Heyman made an appearance to wrap up Lesnar’s SummerSlam storyline.
On the most recent edition of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer elaborated on Lesnar’s absence from Raw this week.
“So the deal with Brock on Monday was that [WWE] couldn’t come up with any viable idea to put him on television,” explained Meltz