Ever since Brock Lesnar’s return to
the WWE in 2012, his WWE run has been very different than his first run in
2002-04. He pretty much has the same persona character wise, but his in ring abilities
have changed drastically. He doesn’t do those triple powerbombs anymore, he doesn’t
jump off the top rope anymore, & he doesn’t even speak anymore. Instead,
Paul Heyman does all the talking for him including his ring announcing.
His matches have become very predictable
at this point especially since he captured the WWE Universal Title. In majority
of his matches all he performs is his Suplex City routine, and a couple F5’s
and he wins the match. His matches with Roman Reigns at WrestleMania 34 & The
Greatest Royal Rumble have been particularly boring. It’s no secret I’m a big
Roman Reigns fan but I feel these matches with Lesnar have been huge disappointments.
These matches, have not been able to showcase Reigns’ true in-ring abilities. Reigns
has a ton more in his arsenal but due to WWE wanting to make Lesnar look dominant
it hampers all his matches.
Lesnar’s Universal Championship
reign has nothing extraordinary attached to it outside of WrestleMania 33 when
he captured the belt defeating Goldberg. That was his best match in his reign
involving the title but even that match was nothing but Lesnar hitting Suplex
City & F5’s. His matches versus Braun Strowman, Samoa Joe, & Reigns
have been forgettable. In the Fatal 4 Way match for the title at Summerslam
featuring Strowman, Reigns, & Joe even saw him barely participate in the
match yet, still managing to win. His match versus A.J. Styles was a pleasant surprise
but that wasn’t due to Lesnar at all. It was due to Styles abilities as
performer to work a match.
The Universal Title has become
irrelevant in a lot of fans eyes because Lesnar hardly even defends the title.
After his WrestleMania title victory (Which was April 2nd, 2017), Lesnar
didn’t defend the title until months later July 9th at the Great
Balls of Fire PPV vs. Samoa Joe. The question of that is whatever happened to
the WWE’s 30-day title defense clause or did they give Lesnar special privileges.
During that time the title wasn’t even in too much of a conversation during
that period. Lesnar hasn’t even had a match on any of the shows Raw or
Smackdown since his 2012 return. He took another long break in title defenses from
when he faced Braun Strowman at No Mercy on September 24th, 2017 until
his title defense at the 2018 Royal Rumble on January 28th of this year, which
made it 4 months between title defenses.
Overall, NO Brock Lesnar isn’t that
big of a draw anymore in my eyes due to rarely competing, limited in-ring
performance, & making the WWE Universal Championship almost irrelevant.
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