What's retarded about it? the fact is Brock Lesnar transcends shyt like this, he doesn't look or fight like your normal wrestler. He looks like a legitimate fighter who makes this stuff look like it legitimately hurts. He's the only person on the roster who can say it and be be believed. It's gotten to a point where no one on the roster looks like they can legitmately challenge and beat him despite everything being scripted. He's more akin to a professional boxer and he's pretty much the Floyd Mayweather of the company. The moment they start making him look normal and susceptible to your standard WWE tropes is when it becomes detrimental , that's how they almost killed his first run since he returned. They had to remodel him a bit after that and start again. He's above all this shyt. Win, lose, be stripped of the belt or vacate, but losing it through fukkery and not being pinned FOH
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