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#1 Brock Lesnar returns and wins the Men's MITB briefcase
Well WWE, if you wanted to make a new star and someone that was refreshing to the WWE Universe, you were doing it for 95% of the main event of the night.
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Ali, Richochet, Andrade, Finn Balor and Randy Orton all could have conceivably walked out with the briefcase at various points of the match.
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I'm not saying Lesnar shouldn't have come back, it just would have been better for the entire WWE had he returned out of the title picture. Instead, he's right back in the thick of it and will be the specter looming over the WWE until he either loses the briecase or the cashes-in.
Ali could have pulled down the briefcase instead of gawking at the incoming Lesnar because it would have literally taken two seconds atop the ladder. But since that was not the ending that was booked, he stood atop the ladder and watched as 'the Beast' sauntered down to the ring with huge, smug smile on his face.
That smile alone should have told us that we were in for a massive trolling by WWE. Guys who had been fighting for the right to be champ some day within the next year were tossed to the side in order to hand the briefcase to Lesnar. His part-time reigns were big factors for the ratings' drops but WWE didn't seem to mind having Lesnar win.
It will create the exact problem that they rectified twice. They must not have learned from the history of having Lesnar as champion. The decision was probably made because he's a big star and they think having him on one or the other of their shows will raise the ratings, but it will have the inverse effect.
By not going with one of the younger stars who were sacrificing their bodies throughout the match, WWE lost a lot of the good will it had built during the ladder match. Get ready for the exact same 'Beast' we have come to dread over the last few years.
He might cash-in on Kofi Kingston due to the 'Wildcard Rule' but it will just move the problem from Raw to SmackDown since it will just reopen the same wound of having a part-time champ.
