The WWE World Heavyweight Championship match between Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns had the potential to be an absolute trainwreck, but instead it became an old school, big match slugfest, with both wrestlers throwing bombs at each other right away. Reigns busted Lesnar open early on, while Brock threw Roman around the ring like a sack of potatoes. Brock yelling Welcome to Suplex City, b*tch! was gold. As much as the fans universally hated Reigns, his laughing as he got pounded was a nice touch. He absorbed as much of the onslaught as possible and found his opening (with the help of the ringpost) before delivering a series of Superman punches and spears to nearly topple the Beast. Throw in some hardway bleeding which is really effective when it almost never happens in matches anymore and you had a match deserving of the main event. The interesting thing about this match is that Lesnar carried it. Reigns had not really had a great singles match before this one, and Brocks methodical beating really worked well. Heres hoping he gets a bonus for every dozen suplexes he throws.
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.
