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The Beast Brock Lesnar is one of the biggest superstars in WWE history. Lesnar is the most decorated man in combat sports history and has held major championships from different promotions, mainly WWE, New Japan Pro Wrestling and the UFC. Lesnar is big, strong and intimidating, to say the least.
Living in his moniker Eat. Sleep. Conquer. Repeat, The Beast Incarnate has conquered many superstars in WWE who were perceived to be the greatest of all time. He has dominated everyone who stepped in his path and won World Titles along the way, and one deadly F5 is all it takes to get the victory.
Here are the seven sins of Brock Lesnar...
#7 Lust: Going after the WWE World Heavyweight Championship
Lesnar was hot since he returned to WWE in 2012, the night after WrestleMania XXVIII. He went on to face John Cena at the Extreme Rules PPV in an Extreme Rules match where he unfortunately lost. The Beast received another match with Cena after the latter won the WWE World Heavyweight Championship at Money in the Bank. This was after Lesnar defeated The Undertaker at WrestleMania XXX to end his 21-0 undefeated streak.
Lust does indeed work in various ways, and in this case, Brock Lesnar is lustful for the top prize and all the money that comes with it. Lesnar defeated the 16-time World Champion at SummerSlam in 2014 to win the title after 16 suplexes and one final F5. What happened next? Well, Lesnar gave Cena a rematch for the title the very next month and after that, he disappeared with the title and only defended it again the following year.
He eventually lost it at WrestleMania 31 when Seth Rollins cashed in his Money in the Bank contract to win the title. That wasn't Lesnar's last World Title run though, as The Beast had another underwhelming run as World Champion when he won the Universal Championship, which you will read about later.
#6 Pride: Winning almost every match
Brock Lesnar is portrayed as this big and unstoppable dominant force in WWE, and most of his matches have ended with him scoring the victory, while most of his losses were either not clean or he wasn't involved in the resulting loss, like when Seth Rollins pinned Roman Reigns to win the WWE Championship and not Brock Lesnar or when Seth Rollins hit Lesnar with a low blow at WrestleMania 35, thus winning the Universal Championship.
Majority of his matches don't exceed 10 minutes and he has the ability to kick out or even no-sell his opponent's finisher, thus making him look very strong. The last time The Beast lost clean was when he was squashed by Goldberg at Survivor Series in 2016. Lesnar has never tapped out to anybody since he returned to WWE and it doesn't look like he ever will.
The Beast wrestles very few matches per year and 9 out of ten times he has been in the winning end.
#5 Greed: Working fewer matches for more pay
Even though The Beast Brock Lesnar wrestled very few matches last year (as always), he reportedly got paid the highest with $12 million in 2018 alone. Take note that Lesnar was the Universal Champion at the time and he rarely defended the title. Though he is a box office attraction, this is pure laziness.
Refusing to defend your title every month and expecting to get paid so much is unfair to all the other WWE Superstars who are on the road 300 days a year and they are getting paid up to eight times less than what Lesnar is getting.
Putting the Universal Championship on Lesnar was a big mistake that cost the company, as Monday Night Raw suffered its lowest rating for several weeks while the person who was supposed to be part of the show was frequently absent.
#4 Envy: Trying to end Triple H's career
After Lesnar was about to attack the WWE Chairman Vince McMahon for the second time in a row, The Game Triple H made the save by saving his father-in-law and brawling with The Beast in the process. HHH challenged Lesnar to a match at WrestleMania 29, and a few weeks later, Lesnar and his advocate Paul Heyman accepted the challenge, but there was a condition. Heyman had to choose the stipulation for the match, which was going to be revealed after The Game signed the contract to make the match official.
Triple H signed the contract and Heyman proceeded by stating that the stipulation is a No Holds Barred match and The Game's career was on the line. If he lost the match, he would have to retire from WWE. The two faced off at WrestleMania where The Beast tried to end Hunter's career, but The Game won the match after hitting Lesnar with a Pedigree on the steel stairs.
#3 Gluttony: holding the Universal Championship hostage
Saying that Brock Lesnar's run as Universal Champion was mediocre would be an understatement. Lesnar is the first person to hold the title twice. The Big Red Belt is nearly 3 years old, and in that time, Lesnar has held the title for a combined reign of 660 days. In his first reign, he held it for 504 days after winning it from Goldberg at WrestleMania 33 in 2017 to losing it to Roman Reigns at SummerSlam in 2018.
The title was rarely seen on Raw where it was supposed to be. Instead, it was stored somewhere in Brock Lesnar's house for most of the time. Fans were happy when Lesnar finally lost the title at SummerSlam, but WWE did what WWE does best by disappointing the fans when Lesnar won the title again for the second time at Crown Jewel.
Lesnar personified the word 'gluttony.'
#2 Sloth: Ending The Undertaker's streak
Brock Lesnar shocked the entire world when he pinned The Undertaker at WrestleMania XXX, ending The Deadman's 21-0 winning streak. Fans in the arena were left stunned as to what had transpired. Three F5s was all that it took, and a two-decade accomplishment for The Phenom came to an end.
This was the most shocking moment in the history of professional wrestling. Fans didn't know what to do or how to react because ending The Streak was seen as a much bigger accomplishment than winning the WWE Championship. Following the incident, Lesnar's advocate kept boasting about it numerous times, which resulted in The Undertaker returning at Battleground in 2016 and facing The Beast at SummerSlam.
WWE still receives backlash from fans and critics over their decision to end The Streak. Many felt that Undertaker should've retired undefeated or someone more worthy than Lesnar should've been the one to end The Streak.
#1 Wrath: Beating up an amputee and busting Randy Orton open
Brock Lesnar comes out looking dominant at almost everything he does in WWE. From beating up former World Champions and ending streaks, was there any time where Lesnar went too far? Yes! He did that more times than he actually needed to. In 2003, on an episode of Thursday Night SmackDown, The Next Big Thing Brock Lesnar assaulted one of Vince McMahon's nemesis, Zach Gowen, by (kayfabe) breaking his leg and then pushing a wheelchair-bound Gowen down the stairs.
If that doesn't sound bad enough, Lesnar, of all people, faced Gowen, a one-legged man, the following week on SmackDown and brutalized him in front of his family. If that still doesn't sound bad enough for you, Lesnar went on to bust Gowen open leaving him with blood all over his face. That wasn't the last time The Beast busted a superstar open.
In 2016, Randy Orton just returned from injury and he wanted his opponent to be a big name. That man was none other than Brock Lesnar himself. The two faced-off at SummerSlam, where the match ended in a bloody mess. This made Lesnar look like the most remorseless and sadistic human being in WWE history.
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