Persona's that never saw full potential.

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Originally Posted by CWK Why would you have a then 25 year old Lesnar with the world of potential and hugely over with the fans book him to go undefeated into the last match in front of 54,097 people at the biggest show of the year and lose to a guy nearly 10 years older than he is and at the time was going into neck surgery following the event and would be out for a few months?

1) As I said before, Angle would have gone over big time. Angle may have been 35 years old or so at the time, but he still had tons of great matches left in him (as he demonstrated, even after the neck surgery). Angle going over Lesnar would have been an excellent, and realistic, 'David vs. Goliath' storybook ending.

2) By NOT having Lesnar win at Mania, you would keep him motivated to achieve that goal for the future. By giving someone too much too quickly, you can make them unmotivated....or simply put, make them not fully respect what has been given to them. An argument can be made that both of these things happened to Lesnar.

Especially since before that he wins KOTR, Royal Rumble, and crushes Hogan and Rock in clean victories, then goes to 'Mania and loses to Angle? Doesn't seem right.

Now just imagine. How over would a guy be if they were to be THE guy that finally ended Lesnar's winning streak?.....a guy that had destroyed both Hogan and The Rock nonetheless?! If anyone was deserving of a monster push, it was Kurt Angle.

You couldn't keep Brock heel at that time. People were just cheering him too much which is why they turned him face. Hence why they did that with Austin and Rock.

A large part of what made Austin and The Rock so huge as faces, was the fact that the WWE kept them as heels for an extended period of time...despite the cheers. The heelish characters of both Austin and The Rock allowed them to showcase their personalities more...which in effect, made the fans appreciate the character that much more.

It's basically psychology. You sometimes want something that you can't have. During The Rock's corporate days, the more that the fans wanted to cheer for The Rock....and the more that they couldn't due to his heeldom, the more that they literally CRAVED to cheer the guy once he made that face turn.

I believe that in Brock Lesnar and Randy Orton's case, the same thing would have happened...but the WWE pulled the trigger too quickly.

I don't know if I am the only one that doesn't see the sense in that, but I think that would be a horrible thing to do with Brock.

I'll have to respectfully disagree. Having a large winning streak, winning KOTR, and defeating Rock and Hogan, would have been far from a terrible thing in the grand scheme of things. I would have booked Lesnar to win the title at Wrestlemania at Wrestlemania 20 (assuming that he would have been interested in sticking around).