Following a shock loss to Cena at 2012's Extreme Rules, Lesnar needed to get his heat back with something big. The angle that WWE had in mind was a Raw segment in which The Beast would break Triple H's arm with a Kimura lock. The idea was playing off Lesnar's background in MMA, with the notion that he was legitimately dangerous in his physicality. Hunter was harassing him to agree terms of a WWE contract, when The Beast snapped and took him down. He then applied the kimura, jerking the arm as if he wanted to rip it off the body. Hunter sold it perfectly, making it look as if his arm really was broken. It resulted in the Triple H versus Brock Lesnar match at SummerSlam 2012, which ended up being Lesnar's first WWE win in over eight years. As intense angles go in selling a feud, the Raw confrontation and arm break worked perfectly.
