Goldberg Should Cost Brock Lesnar a Win at WWE SummerSlam
By Josh.0
Why Goldberg should interfere at SummerSlam to cost Brock Lesnar a victory against Randy Orton.
As usual, social media has caused the IWC to go into a frenzy.
We already knew that Goldberg was a preorder exclusive for the new WWE 2K17 video game so why did Brock Lesnar recently post a video online directing a threat towards him of, “you’re next”? Whether the Lesnar/Goldberg angle is being used to market the game or build up hype for a WrestleMania 33 showdown remains to be seen but the smartest move would be for Goldberg to interfere in Lesnar’s match against Randy Orton at SummerSlam thus costing The Beast Incarnate a victory.
Why? Because Randy Orton defeating Brock Lesnar in a one-on-one matchup is preposterous.
Don’t get me wrong, this isn’t an insult to Orton, but rather a lesson in common sense. I know this is professional wrestling, but the result of certain matches cannot occur outside the realm of reality. Would you book Kalisto to defeat Braun Strowman clean? Of course not because that doesn’t make sense.
Before you start throwing around Rey Mysterio’s name let me remind you that his few victories against much bigger men were more gimmick than fixed personality. He wasn’t a routine giant-killer. Goldberg, on the other hand, was packaged and sold as an unstoppable force in WCW the same way as Lesnar has been in WWE. Orton has never been that guy and WWE has never tried to market him that way. His greatest asset is cunning and surprise, not brute strength.
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History is not on Orton’s side. Lesnar and Orton have faced each other exactly one time back in 2002 with Lesnar dispatching The Viper with relative ease to retain his WWE Championship. Sure, a lot has happened since then but you cannot argue that Lesnar has gotten worse and Orton has gotten better. Orton just returned to in-ring competition from a prolonged injury-related absence and his established personality is such that he can survive a loss and it may even be the catalyst for a heel turn. Let’s face it, folks, villain Orton is so much better than babyface Orton which is why I expect him to get suplexed into the upside down.
We have noted the boredom with Brock Lesnar has been well-documented. The days of larger-than-life men like Andre the Giant winning and losing as they please are long gone because wrestling fans themselves have evolved. Kayfabe is dead (long live kayfabe), so why does WWE keep trying to convince us that Lesnar is unbeatable when we know this to be untrue? Such is the road WWE has chosen to travel and a clean loss to Orton would completely undo this narrative.
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We are more than halfway through 2016, so now is the time we will start to see the WrestleMania 33 picture come into focus (I’m looking at you, Conor McGregor). Since he already has such limited television appearances, Lesnar’s role in the Showcase of the Immortals likely won’t play out on Monday Night Raw or Smackdown like the rest of the roster. If the feud with Goldberg is actually going to happen, the first shot is likely to be fired at SummerSlam.