If we're fantasy booking, I still like my idea from last year of putting Brock in a four-way or Six Pack or Elimination Chamber match and having Heyman gleefully claim the next night on Raw that -- per the terms of the contract -- that counted as four (or six) monthly title defenses for his client and he doesn't need to put the belt up until X.
I also think it would have been somewhat entertaining for Heyman to assume control after Survivor Series as GM of Raw and turn the eventual end-game from "Cena is forced to bring back The Authority" to "Cena decides on his own that The Authority is the lesser of two evils and brings them back to get Heyman out of power." But that would have affected the further rise of Rollins, so I dunno.
I think any kind of reasonable on-screen justification for Brock's absence would have helped. Heyman taking over for HHH/Stephanie would have been great and tied everything together. I wish they'd done that.
Still, the greater issue for me is the amount of time they wanted Brock to be champion and the small percentage of which Brock would be around for. It's just hard to make the weekly and monthly television compelling without the champion in the mix for so long.
The Royal Rumble is going to hit the reset button for obvious reasons as the WrestleMania programs start up, so maybe these last 4 months will be forgotten easily, but man, outside of that one Survivor Series match, they sucked.
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https://www.commercialappeal.com/story/sports/2023/02/07/jerry-lawler-reportedly-hospitalized-in-florida/69881416007/ I have read that the prognosis is good.