that could well be it. One more run of big paychecks as a kind of goodbye present before his retirement. Let's face it, main eventing the Rumble isn't going to fetch an anaemic paycheck, is it?
It's probably a combination of the two. Get him over, give him a few big events, then when Lesnar destroys him, it makes Lesnar look bigger, but it gives him the rub of having main evented to carry into a possible feud with someone like Big Show. At that point, he gets some more well paying events before calling it quits.
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