10 Wrestling PPV Matches Allocated Far Too Little Time
7. Brock Lesnar Vs. The Big Show - WWE Royal Rumble 2014
Match Length: 02:01
Why it was too short: It was, simply, a gigantic waste of the 'Beast', even if the presentation of what more resembled an angle exceeded the official bell time.
It half made sense in the context of the storyline. Lesnar had been humiliated at Show's hands on the preceding episode of RAW. Simply outwrestling him wasn't enough to sate his vengeance - so he instead bludgeoned him with a chair before Mike Chioda even sounded the bell. Show did get a Knock-Out punch in before Lesnar impressively F-5'd him for the win, after which he battered the giant with a barrage of chair shots.
It was an unsettling sight - but one that didn't even make Lesnar look all that strong. Anybody could feasibly grab a steel chair and fell a giant by continually maiming him with it. Lesnar's strategy here could easily have been replicated by somebody like Jack Swagger.
Lesnar has been positively awesome at times since his 2012 return - but his tactics, though logical, draw back the stage curtain a little too far on occasion. Why wouldn't everybody else use this effective method as the go-to approach when paired with a larger opponent?
The whole thing was miscalculated. Show was hardly a beloved sympathy-eliciting babyface at the time. He'd been turned so often that he'd long been reduced to a plot device.
Lesnar and Show is a pairing which only works in a small dose - but this was as stingy as it was misjudged.