If you became the WWE Champion at 25 years of age, then married Rena "Sable" Mero and generally beat people up for a living while looking like Brock Lesnar, you'd live in the forests of Minnesota, too. As well, you'd be noted for having few friends, and would likely count having Paul Heyman around as a shoot business adviser as a surefire way to ensure that everyone who believes that Heyman's pro wrestling character is Heyman in real life would leave you alone. Brock Lesnar is the real-life version of Dolph Lundgren's Ivan Drago. When not chopping wood in Siberian-like winters while his attractive blonde wife luxuriates in the spoils of his athletic prowess, he engages in what feel like clandestine next-level physical workouts to enhance his strength to "German suplex John Cena sixteen times" levels. In a rare case of where the gimmick must match the shoot, Lesnar's enigmatic and reclusive nature absolutely serves a purpose.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
