One MIND-BLOWING Secret From EVERY WWE WrestleMania

6. WrestleMania 36 | The Wild List Of Discussed Brock Lesnar Opponents

WWE wasn’t great for any consistent stretch of time after October 2000. Coincidentally, that’s when Stephanie McMahon was handed the book. 

Some stars were made, like John Cena. Some great stories were told, like Triple H Vs. Batista. Some great and enduring concepts were dreamed up, like Elimination Chamber and Money In The Bank. Mostly, though, monopoly-era WWE was boring, lame, antagonistic, wilfully out-of-touch. An already bad show reached new depths of awfulness by the late 2010s. 

2019 in particular was infamously terrible. The sheer volume of dropped storylines and broken internal logic was so glaring that Vince McMahon’s mental faculties were seriously questioned. Dave Meltzer opined, after watching him botch the introduction of Lars Sullivan, that Vince had forgotten how to ride a bike. 

Vince had also forgotten how to build a babyface. Usually, by November, it becomes clear who is primed for the WrestleMania main event. In November 2019, on Raw, there was nobody. Even by modern standards, where Vince would barely bother pushing anybody knowing he could coax back a part-time geezer, there was nobody. Or was there?

According to the December 30, 2019 Observer, three names were under discussion for Brock Lesnar’s match at WrestleMania 36:

- Cain Velasquez, which seems insane given how badly his debut at Crown Jewel went, but this is 2019 Vince we’re talking about here

- Tyson Fury, which seems insane given how badly his debut at Crown Jewel went, but this is 2019 Vince we’re talking about here

- Edge, which was impossible, since he had made it perfectly clear that he would not be unretiring 

Eventually, a coin was tossed, which landed on Drew McIntyre at the expense of Aleister Black (who was barely even over).