5 new challengers for Brock Lesnar and the WWE Championship

#3 Big E

Big E is a great tag team wrestler and has a promising singles career.

Before he found his biggest success as a member of the wildly popular New Day, Big E appeared primed to be a big-time singles Superstar. He came very close to being the guy who would hand Rusev his first loss back during the Bulgarian Brute's year-long winning streak. He also became the Intercontinental Champion but was staggered and stalled out. Eventually, he was found and saved by Xavier Woods, and the rest is history.

Big E is just shy of 34 years old and has a ton of time left in his career. The New Day were drafted together this year to Friday Night SmackDown, which lends even more credence to the idea that the group may split up.

As soon as Kofi Kingston won the WWE Championship, so many people were sure that Big E would turn on him, but it hasn't happened yet. Maybe Big E will earn an opportunity to challenge Brock Lesnar for the WWE Title and be unsuccessful, and that is what leads to the turn on the New Day. It would be a different take on the jealousy angle, and it could be brilliant.

About the author

I got my first big break writing for 411Mania back in 2004. I did a small spot in a big weekly piece that was written by one of the site's top writers. I quickly added the duty of being the live recapper for episodes of SmackDown, and in 2005 was given my own weekly column, which I did for a few years. I gave up writing (mostly) to start a family but got back into it, still at 411, a little over 3 years later. For another couple of years, I wrote 2-3 columns per week for the website before finding paid work elsewhere, and eventually wound up at SportsKeeda.

I am also the co-founder of the RBR: Weekly Wrestling Talk podcast, which started in the summer of 2005 and is still going strong today, almost 15 years later. Due to school, work, and family commitments, I left the team in 2011 but still remain a part of the family.

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Edited by Shruti Sadbhav