10 Best WWE Brock Lesnar Matches: 2002 - 2004

#9 Brock Lesnar vs. Rob Van Dam - Vengeance 2002

First great match

This, in my opinion at least, was the first highly entertaining match that Brock Lesnar had in WWE.

Before this, he had a couple okay matches with the Hardy Boyz on pay-per-view, and some decent matches with Booker T and Ric Flair on RAW, but nothing that made him stand out as being what he was being referred to as, 'The Next Big Thing'.

But then this match happened at Vengeance and gave some hope that Brock would be a good WWE Champion when he was to predictably defeat The Rock at SummerSlam the following month. What was good about this match was Rob Van Dam also looking like he could be a big star as RVD was in management's favour at the time for a big push and unlike Brock's other matches at the time, this was competitive.

Brock started off strong but RVD was quick to reverse him. Brock maintained with a little domination before Rob reversed and they fought a little on the outside.

Van Dam got the upper hand back in the ring with some kicks and the usual RVD moves. He is seemingly about to become the first superstar to pin Brock, after a Frogsplash, but Paul Heyman pulled the referee to the outside, causing a DQ.

It seemed like a bad way to end the match, but as it was an Intercontinental Championship match, it was ended this way to protect both men, but mostly Brock.