5 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Monday Night Raw (24 November - Results & Review)

2. The Brockmaster Falls Flat On His Arse

As long as Brock Lesnar shows up on WWE television, he’s going to occupy a spot in the Downs, but he earned it Monday night.

Lesnar was advertised for Raw, and he certainly did appear, but his screentime could be measured in seconds, and his impact could barely fill a thimble.

Brock was seen backstage entering his dressing room, then made his way out at the end of Raw – after the credits – and promptly fell flat on his arse when doing his taunt on the entrance ramp. He and his WarGames teammates gathered outside, climbed onto the apron and entered the ring, triggering a 10-man brawl… that lasted a whole 10 seconds before Raw went off the air.

And that was it.

Who is the audience for this stuff? Even if you’re a staunch WWE defender who is willing to ignore everything else, Lesnar adds nothing to the product in 2025. He spends three minutes on camera and does zilch while onscreen. He might do a couple of cool spots in WarGames this weekend, but that will be it. Are any fans actually clamouring for him to rack off a half-dozen German suplexes and three F-5s before disappearing until the Royal Rumble?

Brock isn’t even a special attraction anymore. The metrics bear it out. WWE (and TKO) is paying to employ a deeply problematic part-time wrestler whose value added is becoming more and more difficult to define.

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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.