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Originally Posted by The Show Off
Taker doesn't have very many of these runs left in him so I think Lesner should just do the job to the Dead Man. How is it going to hurt Leasner's credability to lose to one of the most dominant wrestlers of all time? In the past old guys have defeated younger guys and it didn't hurt there credability. Ric Flair defeaded Jeff Jarrett and Jarrett still looker great. Hell Triple H, mister "hold down" himself jobbed to Hulk Hogan two years ago, and did that hurt his credability, no, everything else did.
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Difference is that guys like HHH and Jarrett aren't built as being 'monsters', they are booked as solid workers who win all the time (which of course has nothing to do with their position in their respective companies).
Brock has an aura that needs to be protected in order to get him to draw. The best example is what happened with Goldberg in WCW. When he was booked as monster people bought into the aura and they paid money to see him. Then, after his program with Nash he lost that aura and people stopped caring about him as he did more and more JOBs and as he sold more.
Lesnar doesn't have the same aura as Goldberg, but he is booked in a way that makes it look like few people can take him. So, if you have Taker (a grizzled old veteran) totally dominate Lesnar and beat him (which is what would happen with Taker's old gimmick), you basically kill his aura. If this was 5 years form now, and Lesnar was more established, that would be a different story, but he's not at the point where he should be doing JOBs like that.
Beyond that, whats the point of having Taker go over Lesnar? Where is Taker going? Is he going to work a program with Guerrero (which is beyond stupid)? if he isn't, there's no point of sacrificing Lesnar.