WWE News: Company Was Right to Nix Possible Brock Lesnar vs. Randy Orton Feud

After attacking WWE COO Triple H a little over a week ago and kayfabe breaking his arm, the overwhelming sentiment is that Brock Lesnar will have a match with The Game at SummerSlam. However, that apparently wasn't the WWE's first thought when it came to Lesnar's next feud.

According to Marc Middleton of WrestlingInc.com, the initial plan was for Lesnar to feud with Randy Orton and for the two of them to have a match at the company's summer classic. For whatever reason, they decided against it.

I find Orton's character to be a bit bland and repetitive, but I don't have a major issue with him. In fact, I believe that he and Lesnar could have had a nice little rivalry since both are billed as cold-blooded guys who are willing to do anything. When push comes to shove, though, I believe that a feud between Lesnar and Triple H is more sensible, more entertaining and more lucrative.

The angle that the creative team is currently running with makes a lot of sense, and has to be better than anything they could have done to force Lesnar and Orton together. Orton has been busy with Kane and hasn't had any interaction with Lesnar whatsoever, so it would have been pretty dramatic for him to suddenly be thrown into a feud with him.

Triple H's involvement is quite obvious because, as the COO, he has the right to meddle in business affairs. Lesnar bullied John Laurinaitis into sweetening his contract to include such perks as a private jet and limo rides. He also wanted "Raw" to be renamed "Raw Supershow Starring Brock Lesnar."

Triple H obviously wasn't in favor of that, so he vetoed the deal and asked Lesnar to work under the one he agreed to previously.

This obviously led to Lesnar snapping and attacking Triple H, so now the seeds are planted. Paul Heyman returned on Monday and announced that Lesnar had quit, but that was obviously just a work so that Lesnar can stay off television for a while before returning in order to build toward a match with Triple H.

Regardless of who Lesnar wrestles, he is going to be a draw, but I just feel like Triple H makes more sense as an opponent. The biggest reason is that including Triple H on the card is almost like a free pass. He isn't a regular roster member, so if he wrestles Lesnar, it opens up more possibilities for the company's other stars.

In this case, I'm talking about Orton. He'll be in the fatal four-way match for the world heavyweight championship at Over the Limit. While I don't expect him to win it, something good figures to come from that match. Orton doesn't really have a feud in place after dispatching Kane, but doing a program with Chris Jericho makes a ton of sense moving forward.

Not only would the matches be spectacular, since Jericho has been one of the best in-ring workers over the past couple of decades and Orton is one of the best currently, but it's reasonable as well. Before Jericho took a break nearly two years ago to do work with his band and on television, it was Orton who punted him in the skull. That fact can easily be brought into the storyline.

When it comes down to it, had Orton and Lesnar feuded, Triple H probably wouldn't have been on the SummerSlam card at all. In this situation, though, we get an intriguing match between Triple H and Lesnar as well as quite possibly a great one between Orton and Jericho.

Rather than having one big match for the card, we could have two, and that alone makes nixing Orton for Triple H a good move. There is still a chance that we'll see Lesnar and Orton do battle at some point, but for the time being, it just didn't make enough sense.