Who can know how much was planned and how much wasn't. I have a theory. I think, obviously, a face-off was planned. However, we're talking about Brock Lesnar. He's known as a loose cannon with a hairtrigger temper anyway...in real life. He's been described as not particularly liking people. He probably had a general assignment of facing of with DC and to try to gin interest for the upcoming fight. That leaves room for all kinds of different directions it could go. DC was giddy, he's smiling, he's strutting, and he's acting very alpha when Brock steps into the octagon. If anyone has ever witnessed two alpha male dogs (or really of any mammal) meeting before their hierarchy is established, what comes next is fairly predictable. Brock was smiling when he first enters and then his expression switches on a dime. I may be wrong. It may have been purely an act, but I don't think it was. I don't think he liked the way DC was strutting toward him and his whole demeanor. I don't think he literally came unhinged to the degree that he appeared, but I do think he channeled the anger into the magnificent tirade that we beheld. So I guess perhaps it was half performance but fueled by genuine anger that he intentionally let off its leash for the sake of the show.
