12 Incredible Recent Matches To Get You Back Into WWE

11. John Cena vs. Brock Lesnar - Extreme Rules Match - Extreme Rules 2012

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xqr4pm_wwe-extreme-rules-2012-john-cena-vs-brock-lesnar_sport If the match between Cena and The Rock was a highly-competitive one, the bout between he and Brock Lesnar was a brutal mauling on the part of the Beast Incarnate. Lesnar, off of his stint in UFC, took Cena to the mat and immediately began a ground-and-pound attack. An elbow to the face busted the leader of the Cenation open, putting him at a distinct disadvantage right off the bat. Lesnar brutalized Cena, who channeled all of his will to continue fighting but never secured control of the bout. Instead, he spent the majority of the contest serving as Lesnar's punching bag. In a neat parallel to Cena's match against Rock a month earlier, Lesnar's cockiness and arrogance proved to be his downfall. With Cena struggling to his feet, Lesnar took off across the ring, jumped off the steel ring steps and threw himself at his opponent. Both he and Cena crashed to the arena floor in a scary moment but Lesnar shook off what could have been a severe knee injury and returned to the ring to try again. This time, he ran face-first into a steel chain courtesy of Cena, knocking himself unconscious. Cena delivered the Attitude Adjustment and scored the improbably pinfall victory in an insanely physical, hard-hitting bout. The match is not as pretty to look at as others on this list. Lesnar is such a physically imposing, hard-hitting competitor that the smoothness of his ring work does not typically shine through. Here, he worked to knock off ring rust as he stuck mostly to strikes. But the quality of this match in particular is not based on the number of suplexes or how many near-falls there were. Storytelling fueled this one and did so in spectacular fashion. Lesnar was the unbeatable force, the legitimate badass who would stop at nothing to break Cena in half if that was what it took to win. Unfortunately for the former UFC Heavyweight champion, he let arrogance cloud his vision and Cena was able to capitalize on the one opening Lesnar presented the entire match and won the match as a result. A great example of how tremendous a storyteller Cena is and how integral a part of any match the story is.