WWE Royal Rumble 2017: 5 Reasons Brock Lesnar Should Not Win

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4. His Last WrestleMania Performance Was Incredibly Underwhelming

Lesnar’s most recent WrestleMania match was supposed to be a main-event caliber match. It was a No Holds Barred match between Lesnar and Dean Ambrose, who was being presented as a Cactus Jack-like lunatic that was unafraid of any punishment. In the lead-up to WrestleMania, Ambrose wasn’t afraid of Lesnar and goaded the Beast into several compromising situations. There was hope that these two would steal the show on a card that was already looking gloomy based on its main event.

Sadly, the match disappointed big time. The match felt incredibly one-sided, with Lesnar hitting over a dozen German Suplexes on Ambrose. Dean, meanwhile, barely got any offense in, and looked incredibly weak throughout the match. What was supposed to be a critical match for Dean Ambrose ended up being a spectacularly underwhelming match.

If that was how he performed in a lower main-event match, one cannot help but wonder how Lesnar would perform again in the main event. He’d have to work with a spectacular ring general or masterful storyteller in order to have a great match. And given how badly last year’s main event went down, a great match is what WWE MUST put on to close the show this year.