10 Times The Independent Scene Met The WWE Machine

2. CM Punk Vs. Brock Lesnar - SummerSlam 2013

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Brock Lesnar vs. CM Punk at SummerSlam 2013 was the most 'Brock Lesnar' match since the Beast Incarnate returned to WWE. What do I mean by that? Well, their bout felt like a fight, a genuine fight between two competitors. Not a fight in the traditional wrestling sense, either, but one where the smaller man (Punk) knew that he wouldn't survive by simply fighting. He had to be clever.

And be clever he was, and Punk was able to work his way into a position of hope against the frankly unbeatable Lesnar. In the end, the magic of professional wrestling was invoked and that dastardly advocate Paul Heyman had to intervene on behalf of his client, proving once and for all that hard work and passion will never trump numbers.

There is an irony in the fact that the best match of Lesnar's return to WWE came against a man who was performing in bingo halls when Lesnar first made his mark on WWE. CM Punk is independence personified, a man who marches not only to the beat of his own drum, but to a beat that only he knows the time signature of.

Lesnar? Fights for money mate. No passion, just cash.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.