Brock Lesnar's 6 best World Title defenses
It has been announced that newly-crowned WWE Champion Brock Lesnar will be defending his title in just a few weeks against Rey Mysterio at Survivor Series. Lesnar has a storied history with the WWE Championship. In fact, the 8-time World Champion (5-time WWE Champion, 3-time Universal Champion) has never held any gold in WWE except for the top prize.
From becoming the Undisputed Champion by defeating The Rock only 4 months after he debuted, to breaking CM Punk's record 454-day reign as champion (Brock lost the Universal Title after 504 days as champion). Interestingly enough, in his 8 reigns as champion, Brock has defended his title only 23 times on televised events. He usually has a fantastic match when he does defend the championship.
Let us take a look back some of the great ones: Brock Lesnar's 5 best WWE Championship defenses.
#6 Brock Lesnar vs. Braun Strowman vs. Roman Reigns vs. Samoa Joe (Universal Title, SummerSlam 2017)
The summer of 2017 was a heck of a ride for fans of Monday Night RAW. Brock Lesnar became the WWE Universal Champion a few months earlier at WrestleMania 33 by defeating Goldberg. It didn't slow down from there. While Brock didn't actually have a match between his Universal title win and his first defense of the belt, he did have one heck of a foe to take down. A very motivated, very angry, very hungry Samoa Joe.
The Superstar was a former NXT Champion but had yet to hold any gold on the main roster. In the end, Joe was unable to dethrone The Beast. Lesnar didn't have another televised match until a month and a half later at SummerSlam, and this time it wasn't just one angry big man coming after him, it was 3.
Competition was extra high because of Lesnar's absence and many men claimed their stake at a chance to try to take away Lesnar's red-and-gold belt. In the end, no man was able to earn a one-on-one match against Brock, so WWE just put the three most dangerous challengers in a match with Lesnar at the same time. Samoa Joe earned another chance, as did a long-time rival of Lesnar, Roman Reigns, and Reigns' most recent beastly rival, Braun Strowman.
As it would turn out, Lesnar actually ended up taken out of the match fairly early and had to be brought out of the arena on a stretcher due to destruction put upon him by his three opponents, most specifically Braun Strowman, who hit Lesnar with anything and everything that wasn't nailed down.
After Strowman and the others spent some time doing big guy things to each other and tearing themselves apart, Lesnar would return to the delight of the live audience. He fought off all three men and in the end he was able to hit the F-5 on Roman Reigns to definitively end the match and hold onto his championship.