Getting Ready to Rumble - 4 ways Finn Balor can defeat Brock Lesnar at the 2019 Royal Rumble
The 2019 WWE Royal Rumble just got a very, very interesting WWE Universal Championship match. Brock Lesnar, the reigning, defending, undisputed Universal Champion is set to defend his championship against none other than the first ever Universal Champion, Finn Balor.
We have already discussed why Finn Balor could defeat Brock Lesnar.
Now, we come to the 'how'.
Any way you look at it, Finn Balor versus Brock Lesnar is a massive, massive mismatch. Brock Lesnar is the hulking former UFC Heavyweight Champion. He is more bear than man. Finn Balor would not look out of place on 205 Live!
Finn Balor has spent most of the last year treading water. Indeed, it can be argued that he has been treading water since he was forced to relinquish the Universal Championship due to injury. Brock Lesnar held the Universal Championship for 500+ days, lost it, and promptly regained it a few months later.
He has only been defeated by two men in the past two years, and has lost to only five men since returning to the WWE. Brock Lesnar's record completely outclasses Finn Balor's.
Finn Balor is known as 'The Extraordinary Man Who Does Extraordinary Things'. He will have to be every bit as extraordinary as that nickname suggests if he is to best Brock Lesnar.
But it can be done.
Let's find out how.
Brock Lesnar's WrestleMania Opponent Interferes
The simplest most obvious explanation is normally the correct one. Let us apply that reasoning over here. If Brock Lesnar, WWE's most protected Superstar, loses the Universal Championship before WrestleMania 35, to a replacement challenger with two weeks worth of build-up, the WWE has more important plans for Brock Lesnar at WrestleMania 35. Plans that do not involve the Universal Championship.
The simplest most obvious way to get there is to have Brock Lesnar's non-championship WrestleMania opponent interfere in the match, and cost Lesnar the Universal Championship. There is past precedent for this type of booking with Lesnar; Bill Goldberg, his WrestleMania 20 opponent, cost him the WWE Championship at the 2004 Royal Rumble.