10 Most Over Wrestlers In The World Right Now
3. Brock Lesnar
It's often written that Brock Lesnar changes the mood in a building whenever he steps through the curtain.
It's true.
It's also true that Brock Lesnar changes the quality of the very promotion, which is unrecognisable from its ice-cold, drab, unfunny and dumbly chaotic self whenever he's involved in a programme. He's so good, believable and over that it's as if he inspires creative and this beyond past-it version of Vince McMahon to actually step up and tell compelling stories. Then again, that's likely the Paul Heyman effect.
Lesnar drastically improves TV ratings whenever he appears onscreen, making gains, consistently, of which no other wrestler alive is capable. When his match with Roman Reigns was announced for Day 1, an eye-watering 5,000 tickets were shifted.
This is something Lesnar has always done, hence why he eviscerated so many cult kick-pad favourites as a heel, but what's especially impressive is that he continues to do business now that he's somewhere between a part-time and full-time attraction. His TV appearances are far more frequent than at any point since his 2012 return.
He's no novelty. He's a megastar.
But the arena volume argument works against him in a debate over the difference between "over" and "draw"...