10 Horrendous Promos Awesome Wrestlers Want You To Forget
1. Good Job They Got Paul Heyman In
Brock Lesnar is a very effective promo, providing he says very little.
Funny, threatening, he's the hardest man alive and cackles like a complete ar*ehole when he batters you. He doesn't need to talk a lot because he's the opposite of an actor. He's the most credible professional wrestler ever.
The UFC-influenced build to his Extreme Rules 2012 return match with John Cena was phenomenal. Lesnar opening up a bloody hole in Cena's skull, saying in a pre-tape that he doesn't care about what's going through Cena's mind, but what's running down his leg - piss! - was magnificent.
The problem is that it wasn't exclusively built like a UFC fight; WWE being WWE, they had to add a contract signing in there.
On the go-home Raw, Lesnar talked in circles around the tedious administration that WWE was bizarrely premised on for years and years. He dragged it out so long, and repeated himself so often, that the impossible happened. Lesnar was so uncomfortable that it was almost easy to feel sorry for him.
Imagine feeling sorry for Brock Lesnar!
He had demands. He had the same demands again. Seven minutes and one thousand awkward pauses later, he had the exact same demands.
They nearly turned the f*cker into Eli Cottonwood until Paul Heyman was brought in.