WWE SummerSlam 2014 Report: Brock Lesnar defeats John Cena, saves us all
By Ryan Ritter
Meet John Cena 2.0. Photo credit: WWE.com
The cooldown: LOL Reigns Wins!
I never would have expected Reigns/Orton to serve as the cooldown for the evening, but, hey, someone had to do it.
Don’t get me wrong, the match wasn’t bad in the least; however, the pacing certainly felt like the WWE trying to give the crowd a break after everything that happened all night long.
Orton is kind of the perfect guy for this too. His style is slow and deliberate, so much so that he uses it to fuel his heat by standing around and posing to piss of the crowd.
In the end though, Reigns pretty much pulled a Cena. After being hit with a rather boss RKO, Reigns kicks out, recovers quickly as if nothing ever happened, and delivers a single spear to put Randy away.
I understand that they are building Reigns into the next big thing, but can we please not make him Cena 2.o this quickly? Reigns still needs a ton of work before he gets this top babyface treatment. The WWE needs to tap the breaks a bit before they create yet another character that half of the WWE Universe ends up hating in a year or two.
Brock laughs after eating an AA, mocking Cena’s feeble attempts to put up a fight. Photo credit: WWE.com
Brock justifies the ending of the streak.
This match was objectively the worst match of the evening. It was nothing more than a main event squash and a glorified, extended beating.
It was beautiful.
If the WWE was going to have Brock end the streak, this was the only logical result. You can’t have the biggest thing in sports entertainment die and then have the guy that does it lose his next big match. Hell, even having that guy go 50/50 with his next opponent isn’t logical.
The only logical choice the WWE had was to let Brock Lesnar go out and completely destroy John Cena. And, bless them, they actually did it much to every cynic’s surprise. They let Lesnar destroy their unbeatable god in simply dominating fashion.
Brock opened the match by delivering an F5 not even a minute into it. He screamed at Cena, claiming that was his chance to avoid a humiliating beating.
Brock wasn’t lying.
He threw Cena around like a ragdoll the entire match. He delivered 16, yes sixteen, German suplexes to Cena. He even ate an AA, kicked out, and then popped up like the Undertaker and started laughing like it didn’t phase him.
The final F5 to put Cena away seemed like a delayed eventuality after Brock kicked his ass around the ring for so long. It’s a wonder that these shocked faces even existed:
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For the first time in ages, the WWE has a top heel that looks invincible. John Cena may very well be the one that brings him down, but that doesn’t matter. Fans have tired of the invincible Cena and that perception was violently shattered by Brock.
Lesnar is now the one in twenty-one and one plus the first guy to make Cena look nothing more than a muscle-head version of Heath Slater. As an additional bonus, if Lensar remains part time, he’s now holding the WWE title hostage which will earn him all kinds of additional heat.
Now, WWE babyfaces will have limited chances to bring the strap back to the “common” WWE superstar. They will face incredible odds and the guy that finally does it will likely be hailed as a hero.
This is an incredibly exciting time. Thank you, Brock for saving us all from the usual WWE boredom.