10 Creative Triumphs Of WWE’s PG Era

10. The Night Mayor Of Suplex City

Even Brock Lesnar was not immune to the myopic and misguided whims of creative upon his WWE return in 2012.

He senselessly lost to John Cena at Extreme Rules - when Cena was meant to be in the midst of a confidence crisis in storylines. In reality, Cena was still the company's overarching focal point. Everything, the Beast included, was surplus to him. Brock's tedious Triple H trilogy almost doused his heat altogether - but a cracking match with CM Punk at SummerSlam 2013 proved that the mega investment was worth it.

He was reborn as the Night Mayor of Suplex City in 2014; after shockingly ending the Undertaker's Streak at WrestleMania XXX, he killed John Cena with 16 German suplexes at SummerSlam in an equally shocking match layout. Lesnar threw Cena around the ring like he was nothing. It was inconceivable bravery from a regime defined by hesitation and safety. Lesnar was reborn as the strongest kayfabe threat in company history, after which he embarked on the most entertaining run of his pro wrestling career. The act was almost too good, too logical, in that it homogenised his tactics (why would he deviate from them?) and allowed him, known mercenary, to phone it in. Still, at his height, there is nobody in wrestling - not even the stupidly good NJPW - as spectacular as Lesnar.

The masterful way with which he has been booked has as much to do with that as he and Paul Heyman do.