What if Matt Riddle was to challenge Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 35?

#3 A worked MMA style

Brock Lesnar and Matt Riddle have the experience to work an MMA style match convincingly.

Wrestling doesn’t necessarily have the best history when it comes to booking worked contests that go beyond the realm of wrestling. See the posedowns and arm wrestling matches that have been used to build programs, or bouts that have actually been contested under boxing rules. More often than not, these showdowns come off as contrived and awkward, in part because the talents executing the match aren’t naturally inclined to work that style.

Brock Lesnar and Matt Riddle would be uniquely qualified to carry forward with an MMA style fight, and both are seasoned enough in wrestling to be trusted to keep it work. To be fair, it probably wouldn’t play all that well for the whole match to look like an MMA encounter, as the style isn’t built to entertain a wrestling crowd unless it’s over very quickly. The guys could do a lot worse, though, than to approximate the style of Kurt Angle’s match with Samoa Joe from Impact Wrestling’s Lockdown 2008.