Former WWE creative writer Kevin Eck was a guest on the Wade Keller Pro Wrestling Podcast this week talked about the company’s discussions about having Justin Bieber step in the ring at Summerslam 2014.

The link to Bieber is that Big Show is friends with his WrestleMania 23 opponent Floyd Mayweather, who knows Bieber. The pop star was interested in wrestling for WWE and the creative team began brainstorming ideas for the potential match. They settled on a six man tag match that would have involved Bieber teaming up with John Cena and Big Show against The Wyatt Family.

Eck had some reservations about Bieber’s involvement, because he was getting bad press coverage at the time and it would have been risky to pair him with WWE’s clean cut poster boy John Cena. There was also some concern about Bieber getting in offense against The Wyatt Family, who were strong heels at the time.

Of course, the babyfaces would have gone over. Anticipating that the WWE Universe would not embrace Bieber, the plan was for Bieber to take credit for the win during the post match celebration and for John Cena to lay him out with an Attitude Adjustment.

Cooler heads prevailed and WWE instead went with John Cena vs. Brock Lesnar in the main event, with Brock kicking off his fourth WWE World Heavyweight Championship reign.

– John Cena indicated via social media that he will be competing in another “Beat The Clock Challenge” on tonight’s RAW. The WWE United States Champion wrote the following when talking about the Chicago fans, as tonight’s RAW emanates from Chicago this evening.

Few places get as loud as the @AllstateArena. Perfect place for #USOpenChallenge. #NGU #RAW @WWE

— John Cena (@JohnCena) October 12, 2015

– Former WWE performer Rodney Mack celebrates his 45th birthday today. Also celebrating a birthday today is Global Force Wrestling’s Karen Jarrettt, who turns 43.

– As we reported earlier this month, The Rock has signed on as the new spokesman for Ford’s service department. Below is the latest television commercial, which features The Rock and his team.

https://youtu.be/JTxE0TEOgT0

• Ronda Rousey Beefing With Justin Bieber Over Incident Between Bieber & Rousey’s Sister!

Former WWE writer Kevin Eck revealed in his latest SportsBlog that singer Justin Bieber wanted to wrestle at least year’s SummerSlam. The proposed match would have seen Bieber teaming up with John Cena and Big Show against The Wyatt Family.

There was undoubtedly some concern about Bieber’s public image and how that would contrast with John Cena’s squeaky-clean, never-give-up persona. Eck says WWE had a solution for how to handle that, including a payoff angle that would have gotten WWE a ton of mainstream publicity.

Here is an excerpt from the blog explaining what would have gone down:

The proposed match was discussed among the booking team (which I was on) about five months before SummerSlam, but a deal with Bieber never came to fruition. I’m not sure how close it was to actually happening.

My concern at the time was that Cena teaming up with Bieber — who was making headlines for all the wrong reasons and most definitely would have been booed unmercifully by the WWE audience — would not have done Cena, the face of the company, any favors. To address that concern, the creative suggestion was that Cena would become increasingly annoyed by Bieber in the weeks leading up to the match, but Big Show, who would be portrayed as Bieber’s friend, would repeatedly play peacemaker.

After the babyfaces went over in the match, Bieber would be so obnoxious in trying to take credit for the win that Cena would hit the Attitude Adjustment on him for a big pop. Another point that was raised when discussing the potential match was whether it would have been a bad PR move for WWE to do business with Bieber. The feeling from the powers that be was that if Mayweather liked him, then Bieber must be OK.

– Apparently the role that Hulk Hogan has in the WWE Studios’ Untitled Celebrity Death Pool movie is a small one. The role that Justin Bieber filmed as the voice of KITT from Knight Rider is said to be a “quick but bizarre” post-credits scene. Other than that, Bieber has no involvement with the film. The movie is scheduled to wrap filming this week and is being shot with intentions of being an “R” rated film.

– WWE Hall Of Famer Jake “The Snake” Roberts appeared at a Max North Pro Wrestling event in Canada this weekend and seemed to be in good spirits. He gave an inspirational speech from the ring and seemed to be doing alright, according to fans in attendance.