Its no secret that the current, horrendously overpowered version of Brock Lesnar is what happens when a wrestling promoter paints himself into a corner. In 2015, Vince McMahon finds himself having given a genuine star a leg up into megastardom, having paid through the nose to keep him signed to the company and then having no one left who could be convincing even standing toe to toe with him, let alone defeat him. WWEs policy of protecting their favoured main event stars at the expense of the rest of the entire roster isnt exactly covering them in glory right now, with injuries having thinned the roster to the thickness of toilet paper and this is another example of how short-sighted the company has been. At WWEs recent Madison Square Garden event, Lesnar wiped out the giant-with-the-glass-jaw, the Big Show: the only man whose sheer size alone might have made him a contender, if booked properly (and if WWEs crowd could be persuaded to forget about how poorly Show had been booked for the rest of the last few years). Hes finished with the Undertaker now, and theres no percentage in ever revisiting that again. Kane is an odd-job boy for the office, not a real monster anymore; Reigns is focused on the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Cesaro is as strong and as quick as Lesnar (and a far better technical wrestler, which would offset the Beasts frightening aura), and the crowd are still desperate to be given a reason to love him but until WWE get behind him properly, hes got no chance of being given the role of dragonslayer. I maintain that a Del Rio whos booked to be a genuine top level star in the manner Ive described with his legit MMA background to be talked up, and a few months of a worked shooter gimmick behind him with the reputation of a no nonsense, smash mouth, intense competitor established with the crowd that Del Rio, could offer a serious challenge to Lesnar, in a way that WWE bobblehead John Cena could not. He doesnt have to go over - in fact, at the moment Im not sure anyone should be beating Brock Lesnar - but theres plenty of pro wrestling history that says that in a fierce, competitive match that has the crowd on the edge of their seats, theres never any loser. Whether WWE are still capable of booking that kind of match on the main roster, of course, is another story.