10 Most Intense Performers In Wrestling History
7. Brock Lesnar
If Goldberg was able to work everybody with his intense demeanour, Brock Lesnar needed no such manipulation. He exuded menace naturally, his much-heralded legitimacy as a combat athlete adding to his act.
Unlike, say, Dan Severn, whose innate credibility was burrowed too far beneath the surface to resonate in the hyper-exaggerated world of professional wrestling, Lesnar used his scary intensity to carve out a larger-than-life persona. Lesnar is such an irrepressible force of nature that the simple act of him driving his thigh into an opponent's gut is as absorbing as any plancha or suicide dive.
Lesnar is one of the few performers in an increasingly content-driven wrestling landscape who can get away with adopting a less is more approach. Nobody else in wrestling - and this perhaps stretches beyond the modern era - is intense or believable enough to use the same move over and over again. Likewise, Lesnar is also the only man capable of squawking and retaining his deadly aura.
That move - the ubiquitous German suplex - has regrettably enabled him to indulge his laziness, but even when he isn't trying - as he barely did opposite Dean Ambrose at WrestleMania last year - the man retains a semblance of his potency.