10 Positive Developments In This Awful Post-WWE WrestleMania Season

6. Braun's Bulletproof Vest

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At this rate, Braun Strowman is probably immune even to Stephanie McMahon's castration.

The Monster Among Men has withstood on-paper monstrous booking to emerge, bulletproof, as a star. Partnered with a small child at WrestleMania, sacrificed to Brock Lesnar in a debilitating match months ahead of it and fleshed out as a kid-friendly character in the ensuing months, Strowman is immune to and even excels within the broad tropes that acted as the murder weapon of temporary tag team partner and freshly-buried corpse Bobby Lashley.

Ryback could only watch and weep as Braun crushed an apple with his bare hand on this week's RAW in a marvellous micro character moment, though the Big Guy did take credit for planting the seed. The resultant main event match was full-on fire, too, in which Braun bumped smoothly and credibly for Finn Bálor's sling blade on the outside before, in a superb spot of direction, rising from the depths behind the barricade like the godd*mn sea monster that he is.

Braun at his best is so good that even Kevin Dunn can't sleep on him.

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