{"id":24703,"date":"2016-07-04T20:52:22","date_gmt":"2016-07-05T01:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=24703"},"modified":"2016-07-07T21:18:25","modified_gmt":"2016-07-08T02:18:25","slug":"wwe-announce-brock-lesnars-summerslam-opponent-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/07\/04\/wwe-announce-brock-lesnars-summerslam-opponent-week\/","title":{"rendered":"WWE to announce Brock Lesnar&#8217;s Summerslam opponent this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1593979256\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>It&#8217;s Fight Week for Brock Lesnar returning to UFC on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>So, WWE is planning to announce Lesnar&#8217;s WWE return opponent on this week&#8217;s Smackdown episode.<\/p>\n<p>WWE announced during Raw that the company will announce Lesnar&#8217;s Summerslam opponent on Smackdown, trying to give Smackdown a boost in relevancy and viewership.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement will be two days before Lesnar returns to MMA\u00a0against Mark Hunt at the UFC 200 PPV\u00a0on Saturday.<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2672162350\"><div id=\"pwtor-3164341242\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>It&#8217;s Fight Week for Brock Lesnar returning to UFC on Saturday. So, WWE is planning to announce Lesnar&#8217;s WWE return opponent on this week&#8217;s Smackdown episode. WWE announced during Raw that the company will announce <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/07\/04\/wwe-announce-brock-lesnars-summerslam-opponent-week\/\" title=\"WWE to announce Brock Lesnar&#8217;s Summerslam opponent this week\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[105,72,142,3018,1060,117,141],"class_list":["post-24703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_wwe","tag-brock-lesnar","tag-smackdown","tag-summerslam","tag-summerslam-2016","tag-ufc-200","tag-wwe-smackdown","tag-wwe-summerslam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/LesnarBrockTB2_3x2_600.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24703"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24705,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24703\/revisions\/24705"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}