How Good Was Brock Lesnar Actually?

Something that’s great about Brock is that you can only ever imagine him as a main event talent, and he’d have been that in any promotion at any point in wrestling history. This may sound like hyperbole, but let’s examine the evidence.

So few men in the history of wrestling would have been dangerous and credible enough for the savage crowd in ECW, big enough to compete with Hogan, Nash, and Goldberg in WCW, and have the natural star appeal to hang with the heavyweights of the 'Attitude Era'. He would have been perfect as a WrestleMania opponent in the era of Hulk and 'Hulkamania', and had the chops to put on clinics with Bret and Shawn as he did with Angle and Benoit. Lesnar made magic with Guerrero and CM Punk too. No matter what you might think of accusations that exist against Lesnar away from the ring, Brock is bulletproof inside the squared circle and as a box office attraction in wrestling.

He would’ve been an attraction in the days of the territories because of his size and willingness to bleed for his art, and he spent the majority of his career thriving in the PG-era of WWE. He blew away The Rock at his height, and he is currently being used by the TKO-era of WWE to legitimize wrestling’s next bonafide superstar in Oba Femi.

Maybe there’s a question about his ability to sell feuds at the elite level without Paul Heyman as his advocate, but even that feels speculative. There is simply no world or era in which Lesnar doesn’t rank among the best members of any roster ever assembled by anyone anywhere. He’s a freak of nature and has an undeniable presence that is almost entirely unique to 'The Beast Incarnate'.

9/10