10 Wrestlers You Won't Believe Got The Better Of Vince McMahon

3. Brock Lesnar

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Of course Brock Lesnar was going to leverage his star power against Vince McMahon's bank account.

He embodied everything that Vince has always held dear: he is a legitimate colossus of a human being drenched in mainstream credibility. Vince loves size, star power, and ambition. These concepts were transmogrified into the hulking, sweaty, purple form of the 'Beast Incarnate'. But the sheer extent of Lesnar's ability to make Vince McMahon jump and ask how high really is quite incredible.

Lesnar returned to WWE in 2012 as a UFC record-breaking draw - one that radiated such presence that Vince quickly forgot about that time in 2004 Lesnar suddenly left when Vince had invested more heavily in him than any other performer ever.

Lesnar made Vince go full Stacy Keibler to such an unreal degree that he had him break the Undertaker's WrestleMania streak, twice go over Roman Reigns at WrestleMania, and beat virtually every performer that received anything resembling a halfway committed push. Had Brock Lesnar deemed it fit, he could have sneezed on a vegetable and made Vince eat it.

Hell, he could even have ordered him to dry-hump an old WCW ring curtain.

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