10 Big Money Matches WWE Needs To Make
4. ???? Vs. Brock Lesnar
There’s a sense in which it almost doesn’t matter who faces Brock Lesnar next. If things continue the way they have for the last three years, whoever it is will get suplexed out of their socks a dozen times in a row while Lesnar chortles like the guy who used to steal your lunch money at school.
If, however… if they finally choose to build someone to properly take Lesnar on, someone to finally get the rub of giving him competition - even beating the Beast cleanly in the middle of the ring - then that match will be elevated to Big Fight, ‘red pantie’ status regardless of who the other guy is.
Who’s left? Cena’s not the right guy to face Lesnar anymore. They’ve milked the Undertaker for all he’s worth. Kevin Owens would love the match, but like Orton found recently, being a bona fide main eventer doesn’t mean you get to look good against Brock Lesnar.
But then there’s Samoa Joe and Shinsuke Nakamura in NXT, either one of which can be built into a credible challenger for Lesnar. Joe’s back to doing some of the very best work of his career right now, and needs to be called up soon to begin tearing a path to RAW or Smackdown’s main event. Nakamura is a mysterious, unknown quantity to most WWE fans, but an insanely charismatic one who hits like an angry mule.
More to the point, neither man has been the victim of WWE’s notoriously wishy-washy 50/50 booking policy. Someone like Cesaro or Bray Wyatt should present a challenge to Lesnar, but they’ve been booked into a hole in the ground for so long that no one realistically expects them to win the big matches anymore.
Wyatt, in particular, was thrown to the wolves with Lesnar earlier this year, when it was established that the whole Wyatt Family - a collection of giant, terrifying backwoods psychopaths, let’s not forget - would have problems taking down Brock Lesnar.
Making a monster like Lesnar is supposed to create big money matches, and he’s certainly been a draw since returning to WWE four years ago - but without realistic competition, he’s starting to get dull, his fights losing their must-see lustre.