10 Most INFURIATING Wrestling Narratives

4. Brock Lesnar Is Bad For WWE

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Brock Lesnar is symptom.

This narrative has reappeared in the wake of his Money In The Bank cash-in, as if the Beast Incarnate is Vince McMahon’s Cersei Lannister. He could fundamentally change, if it weren’t for his stupid sexy beetroot sister, into whose arms he runs away from patient, coherent long-term storytelling and a product not riddled with fake, fake bullsh*t.

The Universal Championship match at Money In The Bank really was incredible, but the TV was decidedly not. Seth Rollins and AJ Styles traded the same workrate guy barbs at each other within prehistoric tropes, and it didn’t matter, because the pre-scripted soundbites made for a compelling enough video package on the night. Brock Lesnar’s absence did not create the opening for a truly compelling feud between two top stars because Brock Lesnar isn’t a glass ceiling unto himself.

Brock Lesnar is a performer who in the last six months has entered three quality stints in matches and quasi-matches that enhanced his opponents. WWE squandered any momentum Finn Bálor may have built following the Royal Rumble by putting the heat on Bobby Lashley the very next night with no comeback. Lesnar is the über-heel, onscreen and off, but WWE is inherently focused on heels and heat spots and rest holds.

Lesnar is simply the top heel of a heel territory.

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