Where's the champ? Not here....

[Red Rain]

I think pretty much everyone was hoping for Brock vs Orton. Not just because Brock has already steamrolled through Cena, but because it's fresh match that's never happened except for once when they were both rookies in 2002, and Orton being a 12-time world champion and the guy who just last year cleanly beat John Cena to unify the world championships means he's a noteworthy opponent for Brock to defeat. For what it's worth, there's some rumblings that Cena and Brock might happen at TLC, so maybe we could get Brock/Orton at the Rumble. The fact that Orton dropped Heyman with the RKO makes me think some sort of seeds have been planted for a future rivalry. Brock never lets any abuse towards Heyman (verbal or physical) go unanswered.

To be honest, as much as I like the whole notion of Lesnar wrestling newer superstars and giving them some sort of rub, there's not a whole lot of viable candidates who are worthy of having a match with Brock. There's Bryan, but he's injured. Cesaro would have made for an excellent bout, but they squandered his momentum away. Ambrose being crazy enough to challenge The Beast would be great. Sheamus would make for a great stiff match, although Sheamus has already failed as a main eventer and wouldn't benefit from any type of rub. Beyond that, seeing Brock collide with a bunch of superstars at once inside the chamber would be awesome, but of course they decided to pick this year of all years to get rid of it as their February PPV.

I'm not going to disagree with you said there.
Tyson Kidd would be a great match up for Brock Lesnar.
WWE might like to fool you into believing otherwise. Kidd is, no doubt, one of the best wrestlers on the entire roster

I agree with your 'newer superstars' premise, but a Kidd/Lesnar match would be a high quality one off bout that would surprise a lot of people.

 

[Prince Bálor]

I'm not going to disagree with you said there.
Tyson Kidd would be a great match up for Brock Lesnar.
WWE might like to fool you into believing otherwise. Kidd is, no doubt, one of the best wrestlers on the entire roster

I agree with your 'newer superstars' premise, but a Kidd/Lesnar match would be a high quality one off bout that would surprise a lot of people.

Kidd is a great wrestler. Sometimes I wonder why guys like R-Truth and Woods are better positioned on the roster than Tyson. I mean they're jabronies, but still it'd be nice seeing Kidd a little more frequently on the main roster. But at least we get to see him in NXT, though, putting great matches with Mr. Miraculous Sami Zayn, Adrian Neville and Tyler Breeze.

But I guess they don't wanna do the 'newer superstars' premise. Imagine how awesome DBry vs Lesnar would've been if Bryan wasn't injured, or Cesaro vs Lesnar or Orton vs Lesnar. But I guess they just wanna rinse, wash, repeat like they pretty much always do and say 'Hey folks, it's Cena vs Lesnar, you get to see this only 4 times in a lifetime.'

So I say, do Lesnar vs Cena ASAP, at TLC for instance. Then make Brock work the Rumble with either Orton/Ambrose/Cesaro. If you can't afford him, then it was stupid putting the WWE-WHC on him. Lesnar got the best of the bargain, though.

 

[The GOAT]

I'm not sure Woods is any better positioned than Kidd is. When's the last time either guy was on TV that often? That "Smart Athletic Friends" (still a super gay name) group still hasn't become official on television yet, whereas Kidd is at least being featured pretty regularly on Total Divas, or at least he was from I heard (I can't be arsed watching it myself to find out for sure.)

Yeah, Tyson Kidd is a great wrestler, but to me he's the quintessential great wrestler with no charisma or personality to make himself stand out. He's this decade's Charlie Haas. As fantastic as a match between he and Lesnar would be, he just doesn't have anywhere near a promising enough future as a star to really warrant such a match and no way would I ever waste a PPV buildup on him.... not even something like the Rumble where they can afford to have Lesnar fight a lesser opponent since the Rumble is the main attraction anyway.

 

[Trip in the Head]

whereas Kidd is at least being featured pretty regularly on Total Divas, or at least he was from I heard (I can't be arsed watching it myself to find out for sure.)

I can confirm that for ya. Big story line is a possible divorce between him and Natty on TD. I kind of think it's all fake but I don't pay attention to their real life stuff outside of the show. It's reality TV so I doubt it's for real lol.