10 Reasons WWE Champion Brock Lesnar Is Worth $5 Million A Year
3. Legitimacy
You wouldnt know it if you were a new fan who just started watching in recent years, with all the emphasis on guys with the same basic look and physique, but professional wrestling was founded as a business built around tough guys. Granted, not all of these supposed bad*sses were as hard in real life as their characters, but compared to todays roster it was a vastly different industry. There arent a lot of guys on WWE TV who come off as intimidating. Adam Rose, Xavier Woods and Fandango arent going to strike fear in the hearts of men. But even most of the main event players dont present that air of being unf*ckwithable. Thats where Brock is an asset. Youre talking about an elite athlete with freakish genetic gifts, abilities that led to him to the top of the mountain in amateur wrestling as an NCAA heavyweight champion. He parlayed that success into a pro wrestling career, which he then used to transition into mixed martial arts, where he once again became the top dog, winning the UFC heavyweight title. Brock Lesnar is the very definition of a bad*ss, and someone the WWE audience can point to as legitimizing professional wrestling. When the naysayers and detractors bellow about how fake it is, Lesnar is a great counterpoint to that argument.
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