10 Great Matches When Wrestlers Stopped Giving A Damn

9. Brock Lesnar Vs. Samoa Joe - Great Balls Of Fire 2017

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Brock Lesnar doesn’t have a great track record of giving a hoot about minor matches. Now, this isn’t to dismiss a WWE pay-per-view main event as a ‘minor match’, but in the grand scheme of the calendar, it sort of is. Great Balls of Fire wasn’t WrestleMania, it wasn’t SummerSlam, it wasn’t even Survivor Series. It was a mid-year PPV with little going on, a placeholder before the real stuff starts.

Take that, a vaguely disinterested Lesnar (as champion) and a match-time that barely stretched over six minutes, and you have a recipe for disappointment. All of that didn’t reckon on the juggernaut that is Samoa Joe, a human wrecking ball with something to prove and an ability to throw hands with anyone, anytime, any place.

Lesnar eventually overcame Joe and the somewhat rushed nature of the finish left a bad taste in the mouth of many, but this was a thrilling six-minute brawl that stands up as one of Lesnar’s best matches in the last couple of years. Easier said than done, but sometimes you just need to beat a good match out of an apathetic Brock Lesnar.

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