10 Times WWE Went Too Far With Brock Lesnar

1. For Fox Sake

Stephanie McMahon Brock Lesnar
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When Brock Lesnar was added to the 2019 Men's Money In The Bank match at the last second, fans lost their minds with fury as they strolled toward the same inevitability he was.

This SmackDown On Fox squash was much the same, but the end of what Kofi Kingston's WWE Championship reign represented was far uglier. Worse still, The New Day man hasn't lost his mind and gone looking for 'The Beast' in any kind of revenge attack for such a crushing humiliation. The company had gone too far with Brock yet again, but it was as though they'd not gone far enough with the departing champion.

Neither Lesnar nor Vince McMahon cared little for the tears shed by WrestleMania 35 audience members when Kingston lifted the strap, and though his reign hadn't particularly elevated either the belt or its holder ever since, the long-tenured company star deserved better than the nine seconds he was given to say farewell to it.

WWE appears to revel in the disappointment of its audience sometimes and uses 'The Beast' - this was one of the most recent (and completely unacceptable) examples.

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