WWE's Most Controversial and Shocking Stories for the Week of July 21

WWE's biggest angle of the summer turned out to be just another Angle. As in Jason Angle, or to be exact, Jason Jordan, as your newest member of Raw. 

Jason Jordan—You Are the Angle!

The pro wrestling world was shocked, and ultimately underwhelmed, with news of Jason Jordan being the big reveal for Kurt Angle's months-long mystery scandal.

Jordan was announced as Angle's son in the beginning of Raw's final hour, thwarting more popular fan theories of Angle being involved in an affair with Stephanie McMahon or Dixie Carter.

Jordan is a talented athlete being put in a prime position in WWE's deepest of deep ends—the Raw main event scene. Some fans pined for Chad Gable to assume this role, but Gable is more polished as someone who can wrestle, cut promos and connect with the WWE Universe. Being paired with Kurt Angle is much more of a benefit to the less polished Jordan, who otherwise has far more potential as a WWE main eventer.

An opportunity as a main event singles star is quite rare for African-Americans in WWE, and one Jordan must take very seriously. Talents like the increasingly stale Bray Wyatt, The Miz and Dean Ambrose are gifted with several opportunities to thrive despite multiple previous failures and misfires. Think of how cold Wyatt is right now. That man entered WrestleMania as WWE champion—where he was arguably colder.

Where do you think Big E's singles career would be if he competed in a House of Horrors match?

Black WWE Superstars typically get one shot to succeed in this role, as was the case with Kofi Kingston's 2009 push and Shelton Benjamin's brief ascension in 2004.

The ongoing success of SmackDown women's champion Naomi is a sign of encouragement for Jordan as WWE, which has awarded its prestigious Money in the Bank contract to 19 Caucasians in 20 matches, continues to diversify its main event scene.

Talking Smack-lash

Straight out of the "jumping to conclusions" Hall of Fame, wrestling fans and media freaked out when it was revealed that cult favorite show Talking Smack was canceled.

Fans and media immediately sharpened their knives for Vince McMahon, with familiar and repetitive criticisms that the old man is "out of touch" and he doesn't listen to fans.

Message boards lit up with outrage. Mainstream news did not.

That's because as more information continued to leak, it was later revealed that Talking Smack's Tuesday night broadcast had extremely low viewership and far than its pay-per-view counterpart, which was not canceled. That's right, McMahon opted to move forward with the higher rated version of Talking Smack. Pretty generous move from someone who "hates" the show.

Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter (h/t YouTube) noted Talking Smack very likely received lower viewership than 205 Live, which he estimated brings in just 600,000 viewers.

Meltzer later reported (h/t Wrestling Inc) that a WWE source confirmed McMahon doesn't hate Talking Smack, but rather canceled a version that was less viewed by the WWE audience.

The Beast Released?

Brock Lesnar may be up to his old tricks as his WWE contract comes due. Earlier this week, the sometimes reliable @TalkMMA account (h/t Wrestling Inc) broke a story that Lesnar had re-entered the United States Anti-Doping Agency drug-testing pool and was interested in once again competing in UFC.

Lesnar was suspended from UFC last year after failing a USADA drug test and received a one-year suspension.

Reports of a Lesnar UFC comeback were quickly denied by UFC vice president Jeff Novitzky, who told MMAjunkie:

"(Lesnar) is not currently enrolled in the USADA testing pool, nor has there been any inquiry on his part to do so."

Lesnar made similar overtures toward UFC the last time his contract was nearing its end by showing up at UFC 184. He re-signed with WWE shortly after. According to Forbes, Lesnar made $12 million in 2016. The fact that he later ended up competing in an Octagon, however, adds legitimacy to any threats that he could leave WWE for UFC and could prove to be a major bargaining chip to stay. 

Angry Emma

If there's one thing WWE frowns upon, it's WWE Superstars speaking out against the company on their own accord.

This shows individuality, and if WWE Superstars are not wasting their time honoring frivolous unwritten rules—like whatever got Enzo kicked off that bus per Dave Meltzer of the Wrestling Observer Newsletter (h/t Wrestling Inc)—they'll have time to eventually ask the more serious questions like "why am I being paid as an independent contractor if WWE can veto outside appearances?" or "why don't I have health insurance?"

Emma recently seemed to break WWE's cardinal rule when she publicly complained about not being used on Raw as she celebrated five years with the company.

As always, there is a chance that this is either an angle or it can be worked into an angle on WWE television. But if Emma is going into business for herself, expect WWE to use this as a vehicle for Emma to get squashed by Nia Jax as she was a few weeks ago during the Raw women's gauntlet. 

Alfred Konuwa is a Featured Columnist and on-air host for Bleacher Report and Forbes. Like him on Facebook.