10 Current WWE GOATs

10. Greatest Athlete: Brock Lesnar

WWE is forever trying to convince us that Brock Lesnar is the most impressive physical specimen in the history of sports entertainment, and since WWE is the only company which actually operates in the field of "sports entertainment", what they're really saying there is that he's the best they've ever had.

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And, to be honest, it's kind of inarguable. The Beast Incarnate is an absolute freak of nature, and one of just a handful of sportsmen in history who can genuinely claim to have reached the highest level in at least three different disciplines (and perhaps four, actually, if you count his brief NFL run which ended as the result of a motorcycle injury).

Even at 40, Lesnar is still adding to the litany of evidence for his being a world-class athlete just about every time he steps into the squared circle. It was only seven months ago, for instance, that he leapfrogged over the onrushing Goldberg and drew audible gasps from the Orlando crowd at WrestleMania 33.

As a person, he has his foibles - and wrestling fans would of course prefer that he showed a little more commitment to the sport that gave him his first brush with the mainstream - but there's really no knocking his credentials as the greatest ever WWE athlete.

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