It’s
time to say the one thing that WWE has everyone thinking but won’t say outright:
There is no way that Brock Lesnar is defeating The Undertaker and ending the
streak at WMXXX. If for any reason you think
that Brock Lesnar will do that, then you are sadly delusional, my friend.
In the
time that Brock Lesnar has been back with WWE since leaving UFC, he has had
feuds with HHH, John Cena and CM Punk. I
really don’t remember him having any meaningful victories since his return or
even at all, aside from defeating Big Show at the Rumble and, well, it feels
like these days Michael Cole could have a victory over Big Show.
If
Brock Lesnar had been undefeated since returning to WWE though, and destroyed
all who stood in his path… he still wouldn’t feel like a threat to the
streak. Brock Lesnar is a part timer at
best. It’d be like having The Rock,
Batista or Chris Jericho challenge to end the streak—it just serves no purpose
to have them do it.
The
three main people who have tried to end the streak thus far (and who have been
somewhat seen as threats) were HHH, Shawn Michaels and CM Punk. HHH could have done it via politics and just
because he’s HHH so never put anything past him. Shawn Michaels could have done it because he
was the only guy who has been in WWE as long as and meant as much to the
company as Undertaker has, so it would have been acceptable HBK to do it on
some level. CM Punk would have been a
nice passing of the torch in a way and he was literally the only person at the
time I think Undertaker would have been okay with on the WWE roster as losing
to and thus ending the streak.
What
all three of those contenders had in common is that you’d say, “Well, WWE won’t
end the streak because it’s the streak… but, they might for this guy”. With
Brock Lesnar, you don’t have that “but” clause.
With Brock Lesnar, it becomes a matter of whether or not this is going
to be a good match (I have no real high hopes for it) and also whether or not
the size and power of Brock Lesnar is going to overwhelm The Undertaker because
he is so old.
Look,
Brock Lesnar might not get the pinfall victory over The Undertaker. He may not go down in the history books as getting
the W. But, Brock Lesnar might just be
the guy who injures The Undertaker to the point where he legitimately cannot
compete and defend the streak again next year or ever again. WWE should be selling that angle- that Brock
Lesnar is an unpredictable monster and ‘Taker is old and frail- but you don’t
want to book one of your main event level stars as old and frail.
People
might only want to see this match because they feel like Brock Lesnar might
hurt Undertaker to a point where he is physically unable to wrestle ever
again. I’m not sure how I feel about
that, and I’m not really sure who I want to see compete against ‘Taker in the
future for the streak any way, but in many ways it just feels like The
Undertaker should’ve hung it up after last year. I hope this match proves me wrong when I say
that, but sadly, I think it might just prove me right.
