10 Greatest WWE Champions Ever

7. Brock Lesnar

The Rock WWE Champion
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Brock Lesnar became the company's prizefighter following his 2012 return, doing more by not regularly appearing than several weekly warriors were with an abundance of television time. This has at times extended to his stints as WWE and Universal Champion, but even his finest efforts against John Cena, Goldberg and AJ Styles can't match the ferocious consistency of his original tenure with the organisation.

A rounded and varied performer during his original 2002-2004 run, Brock was all things to all fans with the exception of those that favoured an injury-free shooting star press. He ploughed through midcarders en route to crushing The Rock for his first WWE Title, but took to outmuscling and outwrestling Kurt Angle for his second and third.

Outside of their dramatic WrestleMania 19 main event, the two had an absorbing Iron Man match on SmackDown - the only one to occur on the show thus far. 'The Beast' loves nothing more than going less than five minutes in a pay-per-view main event. 'The Next Big Thing' went 60 on free TV.

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