WWE SummerSlam’s Greatest Ever Performers

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9. Brock Lesnar

Record: 4 wins, 1 loss, 3 Title Matches, 3 Main Events

Memorable Moment: Wins first WWE Championship in 2002

The Beast Incarnate has a powerful bond to SummerSlam throughout his two spells in WWE, as at all the events he has participated, something of great significance has occurred. During his first run, Brock Lesnar was the Next Big Thing, a young, raw talent with a phenomenal look and explosive power ready to become the top star in professional wrestling. And when he returned to WWE after achieving everything in the company and in MMA, Lesnar has become a different animal, a prize-fighter with the strength and intensity to decimate any victim that stands opposite him, and SummerSlam is one of his preferred hunting grounds.

Lesnar was always touted as a big deal from the moment he stepped into the WWE for his sheer size and presence, but it wasn’t until SummerSlam 2002 that fans became aware of how big he was going to become. In his first ever attempt at the WWE Championship, and less than six months after his debut, against one of the biggest names in wrestling history, the Rock, The Next Big Thing etched his name in history. Lesnar out-muscled the Rock, becoming the youngest ever WWE Champion in the process. However, he could not repeat that feat the following year, being forced to submit for the first time in his career at the hands of Kurt Angle.

After conquering the Heavyweight division in UFC, Lesnar returned a different animal, more destructive and calculating than his early years. Now a mega-draw in the box office, Lesnar tore through Triple H in his reemergence on the SummerSlam stage in 2012, forcing him to tap out to the dreaded Kimura Lock. After this main event scalp, Lesnar had his eyes locked to another major star the next year, winning the Best vs Beast encounter with CM Punk. But then came a match that will live long in the memory for its shock value in 2014, as Lesnar produced arguably the most one-sided, dominant performance in a WWE Championship PPV match ever, when he gave John Cena an in-depth tour of Suplex City. Will the Undertaker feel that same grim fate this year in Brooklyn?

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