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Monday, August 18, 2014

Brock Lesnar, The Conquerer

If you thought breaking The Streak made Brock Lesnar the most dominant force in the WWE, well I guess literally breaking John Cena last night at Summerslam made him a mythical titan in that ring.  While the quality of the match did not even come close to the extremely high expectations we all had for it, everyone can agree you could not keep your eyes off that massacre of a match.  Apart from a couple flurries of punches and an Attitude Adjustment, Brock Lesnar beat John Cena for 15 minutes straight.  Even after getting hit with the Attitude Adjustment (John Cena's finishing move), Brock Lesnar sat up in a very similar manner to the Undertaker and laughed like the move did nothing to him.  Much like when Brock Lesnar broke The Streak, Brock Lesnar's complete dominance over John Cena was surreal to watch.  Personally, I wanted the match to be a knock-out drag-out fight with both Lesnar and Cena soaked in blood and sweat due to the ferocity of their blows, but looking back Lesnar's dominance was the right call.  With this one match, Brock Lesnar has become way more than a dominant monster; Brock Lesnar is a god among the mere mortals that step through the ropes of a wrestling ring.  Now whoever manages to beat Brock Lesnar for the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, be it Roman Reigns, Dean Ambrose, Bray Wyatt or Cesaro, will easily be made as a bona fide main eventer in the WWE.

While Brock Lesnar is a part-timer and has been a part of two of the most polarizing matches in terms of quality and result in years, he is the WWE World Heavyweight Champion and the star of WWE television for the next four to eight months.  With the right booking and creative use of talent, Brock does not need to be on every show to build feuds, hype matches and bring prestige for to the WWE Title.  There is no problem with part-timers holding the WWE Title as long as WWE Creative does not solely use video packages and solo promos as a replacement for actual interactions between wrestlers.  Although it did take destroying the old guard in The Streak and John Cena to do so, Brock Lesnar is the first legitimate monster heel the WWE has built in well over a decade and his position as such is important to the WWE and professional wrestling's foreseeable future.

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