While a lot of us would probably like to see Brock wrestling (or at least appearing) on Raw on a weekly basis, one look at the way WWE handled his burgeoning career in 2003 suggests that we shouldn't be so quick to wish for that. Granted, the Brock of 2015 is very different to the 2003 model, but if WWE booked Lesnar to do half as many televised jobs in 2015 as they had him do in 2003, he'd be stripped of pretty much all of his drawing power. Brock did several high-profile jobs in 2003, especially when he turned heel in the summer. Chris Benoit, Kurt Angle, The Undertaker, you name them, Lesnar either tapped out or stared at the lights for them. It was nonsensical and made Brock look a lot weaker than he should have, even if he did get his fair share of wins, too. A star the calibre of Lesnar shouldn't have been cleanly tapping to Chris Benoit on PPV. It just didn't make sense, especially since it was only done to set up a Smackdown title match, not a PPV showdown. Then there was Brock's Miami, Florida house show loss to The Rock which, while it was only witnessed by those in attendance (no cell phone cameras back then!), it really subbed Lesnar the wrong way, since he was gearing up for a WrestleMania main event with Kurt Angle and felt he should have been protected. Lesnar wasn't a mark for the business and didn't really care if he won or lost, as long as he got paid, but he still knew his value as a performer and draw and was smart enough to realise that his value was diminishing with the way he was being booked, which is what partially led to him leaving the company in April 2004.
