10 Reasons WWE Should Renew Brock Lesnar's Expiring Contract

2. Fans Believe He's Real

This goes back to the legitimacy angle that we discussed earlier. Fans are into Brock Lesnar's matches because fans believe that Brock Lesnar could legitimately hurt someone at any given time. His first match back, Lesnar challenged John Cena in an Extreme Rules match. Within the first few minutes, Lesnar had already taken Cena down and busted him open the hard way. Instantly, fans who were seeing Lesnar for the first time realized that this guy was someone completely different. This wasn't just another musclehead wrestler, this man was a dangerous human being. As Terry Funk once said, "I can't make them believe wrestling is real, but I can convince them that I'm real." Lesnar approaches every match like it's a shoot fight and the fans come along with him because they believe he is the real deal. When Lesnar delivered more than a dozen German suplexes to John Cena at Summerslam, fans felt every single one. That was a beating the likes of which hadn't been seen in years. It only reaffirmed what people already knew: Brock Lesnar is not someone to mess with.