5 Best opponents for Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam 

It appears highly likely that we may see WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar make wrestle his final match for WWE this coming August, at SummerSlam. Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns is heavily rumoured to be taking place at SummerSlam, yet again, but as much as I like Reigns, I think, due to his several losses to Brock now, that there are more believable challengers.

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Ever since Brock defeated Goldberg for the Universal Championship at WrestleMania 33 in 2017, he has run through every worthy challenger, from Roman Reigns to Samoa Joe to Braun Strowman, they have all fallen to The Beast. So, who's left? Who can benefit most from defeating Brock Lesnar for the Universal Championship in the presumed last WWE match in the career of Brock Lesnar?

Here, are in my view, the top 5.

#5 Brock Lesnar vs. Finn Bálor

Almost did happen, at one point

It was the match that was meant to be and the match that Finn Bálor deserved. Allegedly the plan for months was for Finn to challenge Brock Lesnar for the WWE Universal Championship at the Royal Rumble 2018, but those plans eventually changed.

Apparently, Vince McMahon thinks Finn is too bland and believes that Finn is not over enough with the WWE Universe, despite his weekly massive pop from the live audience. Finn and Brock may not match-up physically on paper, but the Demon King can have a good match with just about anyone.

If 'being over' was at all the problem here, which I do not believe, then it is kind of hard to be that over when you are left off several pay-per-view's, have a go nowhere feud with a recently debuted Elias, an overbooked far too long and weird feud with Bray Wyatt and lose to a 50 year old like Kane in order to make him look strong. And all of this happened when the plan was to have him face Brock. Finn Bálor could not have been over here because WWE's booking was not over here.

#4 Brock Lesnar vs. Aleister Black

Fade to Brock

Now this one is the least likely to happen due to Aleister Black being the current NXT Champion, but it is not impossible either. Aleister Black is quite possibly the best wrestler in all of NXT at the moment. The winner of the NXT Male Competitor of the Year award is one of the toughest Superstars in recent memory and commands both respect and fear upon his entrance.

I can't see this match happening before Lesnar leaves but at the same time, it is not completely impossible. Aleister could make his way to the main roster sometime before SummerSlam, and I can't imagine a better way to get him over with the casual fans than for him and Brock to have what would be an exciting match full of brawls and kicks, that would see Brock Lesnar, Fade to Black.

#3 Brock Lesnar vs. Drew McIntyre

The Chosen One, again?

After being jobbed out for the last couple of years of his first WWE run, the former 3MB rocker Drew McIntyre returned to the UK independent scene in 2014, where he would help revitalize the scene, as well as join Impact Wrestling, where he would become a main event player and World Heavyweight Champion.

Drew, now one of the best in the world, made a surprise return to WWE in 2017, joining the NXT brand and quickly became NXT Champion. Following several months on the bench with an injury, Drew returned to the main roster this past April, forming an interesting duo with Dolph Ziggler.

His tandem with Ziggler, although successful so far in their win/loss record, has yet to pick up steam in the main event scene. As of this writing, Dolph is enjoying another run as WWE Intercontinental Champion, so what's next for Drew?

The two will be remaining a team, with hopefully some main event matches to come very soon, and I can't think of a better one, for Drew, then a Championship match with Brock Lesnar. Drew is the future of WWE. He has all the skill and talent in the world, is believable in his role as both a face and heel and tall and muscular enough to look like a physical threat to Brock Lesnar. The feud and potential win would do wonders for Drew (and Dolph) and take them right to the top, where they belong.

#2 Brock Lesnar vs. Seth Rollins

Still waiting for Part II

Surprisingly there has only been one one-on-one match between Brock Lesnar and Seth Rollins, and there was no decisive winner.

The two battles for Rollins WWE Championship at WWE Battleground in 2015, only to be interrupted by a returning Undertaker, causing a DQ ruling in favour of Lesnar. Brock and Taker would feud, Rollins would get injured and surrender his Championship, and ever since Lesnar became Universal Champion, Rollins is one of the remaining big names in WWE who has yet to challenge The Beast for the big red belt.

The Battleground match between them was decent at the time, going just 9 minutes, but Rollins wasn't given much leeway in showing what he could do against Lesnar. Seth has only become even better since then, and could easily give Lesnar a run for his money. After his string of solid WWE Intercontinental Championship matches and 65-minute gauntlet performance on RAW earlier this year, Rollins deserves to move up to face Brock.

With Rollins no longer Intercontinental Champion, what better feud to move onto than with The Beast?

#1 Brock Lesnar vs. Bobby Lashley

Almost a decade in the making

Bobby Lashley has wanted to face Brock Lesnar for more than 10 years now. During an interview he had with TNA in 2009, Lashley said his number one goal was to 'get in the ring with Brock', and in recent years, back when it seemed like he wouldn't be leaving Impact Wrestling anytime soon, he even suggested a ''cross-promotional thing'', between Impact and WWE, so they could have the match.

Other than his freakish physic and past history as a multi-time World Champion, Bobby is also the perfect candidate to defeat Brock Lesnar for the big red belt at SummerSlam because he is an incredibly skilled athlete for his size, who has competed in some of the best matches in Impact Wrestling history as well as a handful of solid encounters during his previous WWE run. Bobby also has a far more impressive MMA record over Brock, currently at 15–2 with Bellator MMA, with the potential of more fights in the future.

Bobby Lashley could defeat Brock Lesnar for the Universal Championship, and it would be very believable, as he could also defeat Brock Lesnar, straight up, in the octagon.

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