As Royal Rumble slowly approaches, it signals that the WWE World Heavyweight Championship also should be returning to the company sometime soon. Brock Lesnar has been AWOL from WWE for more than two months now and probably will have gone four months between title defenses if his next match takes place at the Rumble. But fortunately for Lesnar, he has the best hype man in professional wrestling today, Paul Heyman. It seems like Heyman knows when he needs to deliver a home run, and he had to realize that with a third straight PPV coming up that wouldnt have a world championship title match, he needed to give a compelling reason why. His rant about how WrestleMania is special because it comes one time a year and thus Brock Lesnar is special because he only wrestles a few times a year was masterful. No matter your personal opinion on whether it was foolish to put the title on a part-time wrestler, Heyman makes you buy into the concept that a small number of defenses really is special. Heyman then had a little fun with the possibility that John Cena could lose his number one contenders status, name-dropping possible contenders: Seth Rollins, Undertaker, Sting or the whole locker room. Of course, this is likely setting up Rollins beating Cena and then Roman Reigns winning the Royal Rumble match to become the number one contender at WrestleMania, but for now, Heyman is carrying the banner for Lesnar.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
