Brock Lesnar is scheduled to defend the WWE Championship against Drew McIntyre at WWE WrestleMania 36. The following will identify and pontificate three reasons why Brock Lesnar must retain the championship against Drew McIntyre on the grandest stage of them all.
Brock Lesnar vs. Drew McIntyre! Indeed, this is a money match that deserves the main event of WWE WrestleMania 36. Two dangerous, brawny superstars of this nature battling it out in the middle of that ring should be a classic.
However, the superstar who should win at this year’s WrestleMania might not be the most popular choice but might actually be the best choice. The following will convey why the Beast Incarnate must retain the WWE Championship against the Scottish Psychopath.
3.) Drew McIntyre’s Royal Rumble Victory was a One-Hit Wonder
If the WWE genuinely had a plan to dethrone Brock Lesnar at WWE WrestleMania 36, Drew McIntyre would not have been a last-minute decision to win the Royal Rumble this year. As many insiders know, Roman Reigns was originally the plan to win the Royal Rumble, but it seems that there was a knee-jerk reaction to give McIntyre the victory instead since there was a thunderous reaction by the crowd when he eliminated Lesnar from the Royal Rumble match.
Our Mark Justice (a.ka. me) had already predicted a month ago before the Rumble that Drew McIntyre eliminating Brock Lesnar from the Royal Rumble Match needed to happen and would be the most important elimination in the match. It needed to happen simply because popular demand wanted Drew McIntyre vs. Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship at WrestleMania 36 and that was the ideal way to set up such a high-caliber match.
However, was winning the Rumble going to guarantee McIntyre a victory against Lesnar at WrestleMania 36? Far from it. As iconic and star-making as it was, this victory was a one-hit wonder since he was not in the original plans to win the Rumble.
In fact, Vince McMahon is even doubting this as the main event of WWE WrestleMania 36 since he is strongly considering Goldberg vs. Roman Reigns (*wink* *wink* the originally planned Royal Rumble Winner) to main event the show. Henceforth, these inside hints make it harder to believe that McIntyre is in the original plans to even dethrone Lesnar on the grandest stage of them all.
2.) Drew McIntyre is a B+ Babyface
Drew McIntyre is not the Chosen One to dethrone Brock Lesnar because he is a B+ babyface. Clearly, he is a better heel than a babyface not only because he has a very ruthless gimmick but also because Lesnar is trying way too hard to put him over.
Besides, it takes a long time for a babyface to grow on the WWE Universe. When a babyface is pushed too quickly (e.g. Roman Reigns), the WWE fans begin to complain about how the WWE is shoving the babyface down their throats and boos begin to pervade the stadiums.
The Roman Reigns experiment was a prime example of that, and there’s no need to put McIntyre through the same procedure. Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results, and WWE should avoid being considered insane on the road to WWE WrestleMania 36.
While McIntyre is hanging with the crows, Lesnar is flying with the eagles. McIntyre has not yet developed his wings to soar as a top babyface in this business. If Lesnar is going to lose to a superstar, it has to be meaningful, mind-blowing, unpredictable, and memorable, especially when considering his reputation as the one who conquered the Undertaker’s undefeated WrestleMania streak and the one who became the longest-reigning main card champion of the modern era.
1.) Brock Lesnar Does Not Lose To One-Dimensional Superstars
A victory over Brock Lesnar is usually earned by a multi-dimensional superstar. As bold as this may sound, this is the reason Braun Strowman never defeated Brock Lesnar and this will be the exact same reason McIntyre won’t defeat Lesnar at WWE WrestleMania 36.
Some naysayers can make the claim that Drew McIntyre has a babyface journey to redeem himself from his failed first round in the WWE in 2010. Considering that he went from an Intercontinental Champion to a member of 3MB, these naysayers could see his rejuvenated attitude, renewed journey from NXT to the main roster, and recent Royal Rumble victory as signs of his main event status coming to fruition.
Although he did an excellent job at flipping the switch and making his journey as inspirational as possible for the WWE fanbase, does McIntyre actually have what it takes to defeat Brock Lesnar? He does not because he is missing a dimension in his character development that should be key to helping him get an upper hand on Lesnar.
That missing dimension is grit. If McIntyre does not show enough grit in his program with Lesnar on the road to WrestleMania to make this rivalry worth the main event of WrestleMania 36, he and the WWE Universe could very well be experiencing ‘broken dreams.’