Lesnar Cutting Open Orton At SummerSlam Was Planned

Despite WWE’s usual policy against using blood in matches, everything that transpired in the main event at SummerSlam was part of the script including the TKO finish. Brock Lesnar busted Randy Open the hard way with a vicious elbow to the head that left Orton lying in a pool of his own blood.

On the Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer addressed speculation that Lesnar went off-script to injure Orton or that an audible was called due to the severity of the cut.

“Obviously [Orton] was selling and they were trying to work the idea that he was knocked out and they had to stop the match, and from what I can gather due to no one talking about anything going awry, that was probably close to what was supposed to happen, if not exactly what was supposed to happen.”

Meltzer said he has “no doubt” in his mind that the former UFC Champion was going for blood. Meltzer noted that the finish was somewhat reckless, but it was not a case of Lesnar going into business for himself. Obviously with a violent spot like that, WWE had no way to know exactly how bad the cut would be and you’d have to think this was on the bloodier side of what they were anticipating.

Whether it was scripted or not, you can see the elbow that did the cut and I do not believe Lesnar meant to make it so serious but even Lesnar should have known how bad it could have been.