10 Outcomes If HUGE Wrestling Complaints Were Answered
5. Brock Lesnar Shouldn't Have Ended The Streak
The complaint:
Brock Lesnar?!
But he's already established as a huge star. WWE spent two decades building this streak, and they give it to a guy who doesn't even show up every week?
The outcome if it were answered:
It really isn't as easy as plucking a guy from Florida Championship Wrestling, building him up, and hoping he becomes a megastar by osmosis.
WWE thought the Undertaker was done. The Undertaker thought he was done. That's the official line. The idea was to shock the world, and promote Brock Lesnar as an entity more powerful than powerful, thus creating a strong desire to see him vanquished. The streak had reached a point by which it was too sentimental to end; whomever did may have been dwarfed by the achievement forevermore.
Or, more accurately, WWE would have ran it into the ground alongside every guy Paul Heyman wanted to push in 2019.
WWE promos tend to materialise as each wrestler reading their Wikipedia entries to one another in a bid to make volume of achievement as impressive as achievement itself. And how often did Chris Jericho remind you that he once defeated the Rock and Steve Austin in one night?
That's what they'd do. That's what they had Paul Heyman do. But imagine it was a babyface, and Michael Cole said it over and over again to endorse him.
Yeah that guy's dead.
As ever, it's easier to simply blame Triple H. He's the one who normalised Lesnar so much that they had to overcompensate to make a return on the investment.
Of course, WWE probably took it a bit too far...