Plans For Brock Lesnar Going Over To Raw Delayed Due To Saudi Arabia Issues

As we've reported, there's been a lot of issues with WWE and Saudi Arabia lately. Due to the delays, this has pushed back Brock Lesnar going over to WWE Monday Night RAW. 

On the latest Friday Night SmackDown, Paul Heyman announced WWE Champion Brock Lesnar was quitting SmackDown after Lesnar went to Vince McMahon and asked for a match against Rey Mysterio. Lesnar retained the title at Crown Jewel against Cain Velasquez and was then attacked with a steel chair by Rey Mysterio.

The storyline states that RAW and SmackDown stars must stay on their brand and Vince turned down his request, so Lesnar quit SmackDown to go after Mysterio. Brock is scheduled for this weeks RAW, and the WWE Championship and Universal Championship are expected to switch brands.

The Wrestling Observer Radio said this Lesnar storyline was scheduled to play out, but it was going to kickoff on Tuesday's premiere of WWE Backstage on FS1 at 11 pm ET. Last Wednesday, "huge news" was teased about the show's first guest, which may have been what WWE originally planned with Lesnar.