10 Wrestlers WWE Paid To Do NOTHING!

6. Brock Lesnar

Brock Lesnar Relaxing
WWE.com

In the 504 days Brock Lesnar clung on to the Universal Title like a baby loris to its mother's back, he defended the belt on just 11 occasions. That's fewer than one per month, making a total mockery of WWE's '30-day stipulation' (which is obviously entirely arbitrary anyway).

It's not as though Brock was being paid to do literally nothing - besides his sporadic title defences, he did occasionally show up on Raw to do what could easily be achieved by a cardboard cut-out. But as the top title holder, his absenteeism was conspicuous to such an extent WWE made it into his gimmick, with the impossible aim of making Roman Reigns popular.

It didn't work; Brock was simply made into a pariah for his parasitism.

 
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