Top 5 Forgotten Matches of Brock Lesnar

Top 5 Forgotten Matches of Brock Lesnar

It’s no secret that the Brock Lesnar is WWE’s biggest main stream attraction at the moment. He is used very sparingly. At first I thought Brock Lesnar was only paid to wrestle a few matches a year, but I am beginning to think that they are paying him by the hour. Brock has had more duds since his return than what fans should find acceptable, but we shouldn’t forget how good Brock Lesnar really is. Brock Lesnar could put on a great match anytime he wants to. He has had a few good matches since his return, but for the most part his matches have left a sour taste in the mouths of fans. Well, I have decided to help everyone remember how good Brock really is. It would be way too obvious to talk about the great matches everyone remembers: vs Undertaker HIAC, vs Angle WM 19, or the famous Iron Man match vs Angle on Smackdown! Let’s review the best Forgotten Gems of Brock Lesnar’s career.

5. Brock Lesnar & Chris Benoit Vs Charlie Haas, Kurt Angle & Shelton Benjamin – No Way Out ‘03

I was originally going to put this match as number 3 or 4, but since it is not a single match I moved it to number 5. I wanted to keep it as a list of single matches because I feel that the best Brock Lesnar matches have been matches with more than two people (the recent Summerslam fatal four way and the triple threat with Cena & Rollins at Royal Rumble ’15 come to mind) ,but this was a great match and really is a forgotten gem. This match was originally going to be a 6 man tag match with Edge teaming with Benoit and Lesnar, but Edge was taken to a “medical facility.” This was really our first look at how great the World’s Greatest Tag Team really was. If you look at the wrestlers in this match I don’t think it would be hard to find the guy who would take the fall (or in this case tap out.) Benoit would eventually make Haas tap out to the Crossface. This match was a great prelude to WrestleMania 19.

4. Brock Lesnar Vs Eddie Guerrero – No Way Out 2004 – WWE Championship

Everyone remembers Eddie winning the WWE Championship… cultivating years of hard work and dedication from the late, great Eddie Guerrero. I believe that Eddie Guerrero was a once in a generation talent. He could do anything he wanted to in the ring and constantly was putting on instant classics. The reason I put this match on here is because it is forgotten how good this match really was. WWE almost killed this match with all the interference that occurred, but it was still a very good match. Lesnar would drop the championship a month before leaving the company. This match, mostly Goldberg’s interference, would set up for the Infamous Lesnar vs Goldberg match at Wrestlemania 20. We sometimes forget how much Goldberg had to do with Eddie winning his first and only WWE Championship, but you couldn’t really expect the Wrester who made a career out of lying, cheating, and stealing to get a clean win over Brock Lesnar, right?

3. Brock Lesnar Vs Chris Benoit – Smackdown! 04/12/2003 – WWE Championship

The fact that this match happened on Smackdown! easily moves this into the top 3 of forgotten gems. This was a great athletic match. Going in to the match Benoit had already made Lesnar tap to the Crossface at Survivor Series, so we really believed there was a chance that Benoit would get the win. Benoit would not win the WWE Championship here, but this gave us a great preview to Benoit’s 2004. Benoit would end up tapping out the most vicious looking Brock Lock that I ever saw.

2. Brock Lesnar Vs John Cena – Extreme Rules 2012 – Extreme Rules Match

I’m not sure if it is because I have a bad memory, but when I think of Lesnar vs Cean I think of “the most one-sided World Championship Match in history” at Summerslam ’14. I would say this match was better than that one. This is the only match since retunring on this list because I don’t see too many great matches from Lesnar since his return and the ones that were great have certainly not been forgotten yet. It was Brock Lesnar’s triumphant return after 8 years! This was a bloody match that seemed like a fight most of the time. John Cena was brutally busted open the hard way. The biggest negative of this match can be summed up into two words, Cena Wins.

Honorable Mentions:

Brock Lesnar Vs Jeff Hardy – Backlash ’02

Brock Lesnar Vs Rob Van Dam – King of the Ring ’02

Brock Lesnar Vs Rey Mysterio – Smackdown 12/12/2003 - WWE Championship

1. Brock Lesnar Vs Kurt Angle – Summerslam ‘03

Of course we all remember the WrestleMania 19 match where Brock Lesnar broke his neck and still won the match, but we can forget about thire rematch at Summerslam. We were very lucky to even get a rematch. Kurt Angle should probably not have been wrestling again. Kurt Angle has surgery and returned within 6 months. Vince McMahon probably shouldn’t have been in the match, but him being there led to one of the two most memoriable spots in this: the Angle Slam on Vince McMahon through a chair (the other one being Lesnar’s one legged F-5.)  A lot of people were disappointed in the rematch, but it was a very good match. It could have been better, but it could have been a lot worse. If you compare this match to many of Lesnar’s recent matches this would be a better match. I’ve always said that if Star Wars KOTOR never existed than Star Wars KOTOR 2 would be one of the greatest games of all time. If the WrestleMania match never took place this would be considered a great match between two of the greatest athletes and mat wrestlers in the history of professional wrestling.