10 Best Brock Lesnar Feuds Since His 2012 Return

10. Randy Orton (2016)

For a one-match feud, Brock Lesnar vs Randy Orton was actually fairly drawn out.

The match was announced on 7 July, with their eventual meeting coming at SummerSlam 2016 on 21 August—a six-and-a-half-week build, the highlight of which was Orton’s one-man invasion of Raw where he gate-crashed a Paul Heyman promo to catch Lesnar unawares with an RKO.

However, the overall programme was let down by the lack of meaning behind it.

In many ways, this had the feeling of an impromptu rivalry thrown together solely to capitalise on the exposure from Lesnar’s brief sojourn back into the world of UFC. For the record, his UFC outing took place on 9 July—precisely two days after his SummerSlam match with Orton had been announced.

Plus, that sojourn resulted in the ignominy of a failed USADA drug test. Not that that prevented WWE from ploughing on with its SummerSlam plans regardless—plans that led to an overzealous Lesnar legitimately busting Orton open and leaving him concussed.

As something of a glorified PR stunt that ultimately ended in controversial circumstances, this one wasn’t quite as fondly remembered as some of Lesnar’s other efforts.