What If Brock Lesnar Joined AEW
9. Equal Opportunity Beatdowns To Start
After weeks of vignettes, the date of Brock Lesnar's debut finally arrives. Who will he target first? Brock doesn't usually hang around much, he isn't paid by the hour after all, but how will his debut go down? Will he immediately find himself in the AEW World Championship scene? Will he be positioned as a face or a heel?
So many questions, so little time. WWE got things absolutely right with Brock Lesnar's debut all those years ago, so why change what isn't broken? Brock's original debut saw him turn up on an episode of RAW in 2002 and lay waste to a whole heap of jobbers, making rag dolls out of Al Snow, Spike Dudley and Maven as Paul Heyman cackled on the outside. Fast forward to the modern-day and the easy pickings of, say, SCU and TH2 might find themselves in the firing line.
By having Lesnar beat the tar out of both teams, AEW ensures that a cloud hangs over his alignment from the get-go. Brock Lesnar isn't a babyface, Brock Lesnar isn't a heel, Brock Lesnar is Brock Lesnar. This isn't shades of grey nonsense either; Lesnar is simply going to beat up whoever he wants to, whenever he wants to.