According to a recent episode of the Observer Radio show, Lesnar ended up being the big reason why the original plans of Shane-Lesnar got dropped. Before it was speculated management were the ones who were against it but turns out it was all Lesnar.
He hated the idea of facing Shane and the storyline they had planned for him but had enough pull within the WWE to get it dropped in favor of him getting someone else. That left the opening for WWE to do more with Goldberg than just have him promote WWE 2k17.
Also seems the reason why the teases Shane had with Ambrose got abruptly dropped was due to the WWE letting Shane pick his Mania opponent. He wanted Styles so the storyline tension with Ambrose got dropped.
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Originally Posted by Observer
Brock was able to get himself out of that match, which he certainly didn't want to do, Shane was gonna work with somebody, so he's gonna pick the best guy in the company (AJ)
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