10 Radical Ideas For WWE To Save Alberto Del Rio

1. Brrrrrock Lesnarrrrr

It€™s no secret that the current, horrendously overpowered version of Brock Lesnar is what happens when a wrestling promoter paints himself into a corner. In 2015, Vince McMahon finds himself having given a genuine star a leg up into megastardom, having paid through the nose to keep him signed to the company€ and then having no one left who could be convincing even standing toe to toe with him, let alone defeat him. WWE€™s policy of protecting their favoured main event stars at the expense of the rest of the entire roster isn€™t exactly covering them in glory right now, with injuries having thinned the roster to the thickness of toilet paper€ and this is another example of how short-sighted the company has been. At WWE€™s recent Madison Square Garden event, Lesnar wiped out the giant-with-the-glass-jaw, the Big Show: the only man whose sheer size alone might have made him a contender, if booked properly (and if WWE€™s crowd could be persuaded to forget about how poorly Show had been booked for the rest of the last few years). He€™s finished with the Undertaker now, and there€™s no percentage in ever revisiting that again. Kane is an odd-job boy for the office, not a real monster anymore; Reigns is focused on the WWE World Heavyweight Championship. Cesaro is as strong and as quick as Lesnar (and a far better technical wrestler, which would offset the Beast€™s frightening aura), and the crowd are still desperate to be given a reason to love him€ but until WWE get behind him properly, he€™s got no chance of being given the role of dragonslayer. I maintain that a Del Rio who€™s booked to be a genuine top level star in the manner I€™ve described€ with his legit MMA background to be talked up, and a few months of a worked €˜shooter€™ gimmick behind him€ with the reputation of a no nonsense, smash mouth, intense competitor established with the crowd€ that Del Rio, could offer a serious challenge to Lesnar, in a way that WWE bobblehead John Cena could not. He doesn€™t have to go over - in fact, at the moment I€™m not sure anyone should be beating Brock Lesnar - but there€™s plenty of pro wrestling history that says that in a fierce, competitive match that has the crowd on the edge of their seats, there€™s never any loser. Whether WWE are still capable of booking that kind of match on the main roster, of course, is another story.