15 Biggest BURIALS Wrestlers Never Recovered From
7. Braun Strowman (By Brock Lesnar)
Brock Lesnar was an objective success story for WWE by just about every metric from the time he shockingly returned in 2012 until a particular hot spell with the WWE Championship following his snapping of The Undertaker's streak and demolishing John Cena at SummerSlam 2014. Unfortunately for the market leader, by 2017 the well had started to run dry, and unfortunately for audiences, Brock had the power to decide exactly how much he wanted to pass the torch in the way so many others had for him.
When it came to Braun Strowman, there wasn't a torch on earth that was gonna get those hands.
'The Monster Among Men' retooling had worked magnificently for Strowman after going solo on Raw in 2016; so much so that he basically won a longstanding feud with Roman Reigns in 2017 in order to look like the man that could hold the very top prize in WWE. A platonic ideal of a back-to-basics character loved by Vince McMahon and his disillusioned audience alike, Strowman was all the way over in such a fashion that could only really be derailed by a damaging defeat.
Here comes the pain.
In under 10 minutes of a No Mercy main event, the Champion outmuscled and outsmarted the Challenger with suplexes and submissions, and even when the gas tanks started to run on empty, it was Lesnar that stood taller as the true monster machine in WWE. It was a convincing win for Brock, which felt like missing the point of the Strowman project entirely until years passed and it was clear to see how much McMahon was prepared to bulldoze just to keep his 'Beast' sweet.