Lesnar should have decimated Tripple H

You haven't read the thread, have you? Read it, this has been addressed endlessly.

Nobody's saying Brock need to swoop in and kill everybody, nobody can stand up to him ever, etc. etc. etc.

The idea is that if you want a monstrous heel and want to make the most money you can off him, you make him look invulnerable in the buildup to his matches, then when the stage gets biggest and the lights get brightest you use all that momentum he has to put somebody else over as the man who defeats him.

If he comes in and doesn't really stand out much compared to the guys who are already there, then he's no longer a draw or special attraction, period.

Come on man, this ain't the first time Triple H has done this. Remember Umaga? Cena had to choke him with a ring rope to win, and a ways down the road, Triple H was beating him cleanly.

By having Tripple H getting the best of Brock Lesnar in one exchange, he’s already lost some of his dominance. Because for a true monster heel, there is really only one way to be booked, and that’s completely dominant. You show some vulnerability and you’re not a monster anymore, you’re just another heel.

And before you go “but Cena beat him already”, Cena who is the top face and kayfaybe considered the strongest active wrestler on the roster, had to wrap a friggin chain around his fist, punch Brock in the face and AA him on top of the steel steppes to pin him down. He was getting absolutely murdered by Brock prior to that, and only managed to do this because Lesnar let his guard down for a split second. While I would have liked to see Brock win the match, the loss actually made him come off as strong.

Brock Lesner doesn't draw. He's a big meathead with almost zero charisma.

What I find funny is HHH is going to win at Summerslam. You can all laugh at me if that ends up being wrong, but I can't imagine H laying down for the guy who left the company high and dry in 2004. So all this stuff to make HHH look good before the match is just going to be more pointless when Brock ends up jobbing. It is the usual HHH pattern.

I think there's a good reason why a number of people want Brock to look dominant going into the match.

Because every monster heel who's ever sold tickets has looked dominant going into a big, marquee match.

There is no "they have to be even going into the match!". That goes against every iota of wrestling history basically ever.

I always point this out to show where Hulk Hogan perpetually trumps Triple H: almost any time Hogan went into a big PPV or SNME match against a monster heel, he made himself look incredibly vulnerable.

-Bundy "broke" Hogan's ribs.
-Earthquake squashed him on the Brother Love set and nearly retired him.
-He never got his hands on Andre before WM 3.
-Undertaker left him laying with an urn shot and tore the cross from around his neck.

These matches sold tickets BECAUSE Hulk Hogan looked vulnerable, and fans wanted to cheer him to overcome the big, scary monster he was fighting.

We could also look back on WCW and ask ourselves if, during his prime run, Vader ever was seen backing away up a ramp to avoid a fight. Maybe Harley Race would try holding him back, maybe he'd play a mind game with a guy like Sting, but Vader never retreated. Why not? Because then he's not the monster you've spent years building him up to be.

Hell, reminds me of Tuesday in Texas in 1991: Hogan has to cheat to beat 'Taker, and after the match? Heel Undertaker is trying to get back in the ring to kill Hogan, with Bearer holding him back.

Here's what WWE needs to ask itself: why did we bring back Brock Lesnar? What do we want him to be for us?

Going by the booking of the Cena feud, they wanted an unstoppable monster. They wanted a guy who was so legit that he went off to MMA, became the Heavyweight Champion, and now he's back to annihilate everybody. Sure, he lost the eventual match, but he looked incredibly strong going into it, and as I understand it he looked strong DURING the match, with his loss being a bit fluke-ish.

Going by what I'm seeing here, they're now booking Brock the way they'd book any of their already neutered heel roster.

Brock "broke" Trips' arm? Good. Now have him and Heyman gloating about it. Have Trips cut a short promo about how he's going to take revenge against this MMA interloper on behalf of the company he wants to lead. Have them stare one another down, but not come to blows.

And whatever you do, don't let Hunter get the best of him physically until SummerSlam.

One other question to consider: who's the main "Special Attraction" here? Is it Trips? Doesn't seem like it; the guy's been around forever, he's already used up nearly all of his high drawing dream matches, and it's not like he hasn't been working PPV's for a chunk of the past year already.

No, the "Special Attraction" is Lesnar. If I understand correctly, they want Brock around through Wrestlemania, right? Makes logical sense that they'd build up to his biggest match then, and if he's going to be this monstrous heel, then he really needs to look unstoppable up until that time.

Trips can look bad, take a bullet, and it won't really affect very much. Brock isn't around enough for that to work for him.

But Trips is, and always has been, just God awful about making any threat look real. He perpetually needs to look like the manliest man in the room, and no threat ever has him intimidated or filled with anything aside of smug superiority or righteous indignation.

You want to sell tickets with Brock Lesnar? You want to get a really high WM pay per view buy rate this coming year? Have Trips be scared of him. Not petrified, not running away, but have him show true, real concern that Lesnar might really be unstoppable. If that goes through SummerSlam, then people will start watching more to see who can actually derail Brock. Give him a good enough WM opponent and build up, have him finally vanquished there. It writes itself.

But don't act like "getting even" has EVER been the norm when booking a monster heel angle.