Brock Lesnar’s Rare WWE Appearances Should Not Be Criticized By Fans

Brock Lesnar is the WWE Universal champion and he rarely makes appearances on Monday Night Raw. But calm down, it’s really not a bad thing.

Lesnar has become an easy target for the WWE Universe and Superstars in the locker room alike, chastised on nearly a weekly basis for not showing up on the show despite being the top champion of the brand.

When Lesnar won the Universal title back at Crown Jewel, you could almost instantly hear the moans and groans coming from fans who didn’t like the title being on Lesnar before he lost it to Roman Reigns at SummerSlam.

However, the argument that Lesnar should be at all the shows along with the rest of the talent has never really made much sense. Do fans feel like he needs to be there because the rest of the talent is or do they really expect to see him defend the title on a weekly basis?

If it’s the latter, think about how many times a title changes hands on television. If that’s not the reason, Lesnar being in attendance every Monday night is not going to make the Universal title any more prestigious just as it won’t lose any value by not being seen on a weekly basis.

The lack of title defenses or even seeing the champion is akin to the model WWE used many, many years ago. In the 1980s, you never saw Hulk Hogan defend the title on free television. In fact, you were lucky to see him do anything aside from an interview on television. But everyone knew he was the top star and WWE was able to build up intriguing matches for him without having him wrestle all the time.

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Now, while arguments about how this isn’t the 1980s anymore and the WWE is currently devoid of top stars are certainly valid, Lesnar is not going to be treated like everyone else on the roster. His contract dictates that.

Now, it’s easy to dislike him for that reason, but if not for a contract that allowed him to work minimal dates, he would have never agreed to return to WWE in the first place.

The biggest thing Lesnar brings to WWE is believability. As a successful amateur wrestler in college and a former UFC Heavyweight champion, there should a short list of Superstars that could even believably beat Lesnar. Throw in the fact that he ended the Undertaker’s undefeated streak at WrestleMania, something many thought would never happen, and WWE has booked itself into a bit of a corner with him.

But that’s what makes his infrequent appearances a good thing.

As the Universal champion and a guy who shows up when he feels like it, it makes him a natural heel who most of the WWE Universe is going to dislike.

So in the meantime, it gives WWE a chance to find that one guy, build him up to earn a shot at the elusive Lesnar and have him defeat him at a big show.

WWE lacks stars at the moment with John Cena doing movies and Roman Reigns fighting health issues. What could it do for the career of a young Superstar to defeat the nearly unbeatable Lesnar, the same guy who ended the streak? What it would do is create an instant star.

A.J. Styles held the WWE Championship on SmackDown for nearly one year. How many times did he defend that title on television? And though he was there every week, it didn’t make the title any more prestigious than it was before.

To argue that Styles is better than Lesnar because he shows up every week is a matter of opinion, but it doesn’t make much sense in the grand scheme of things.

For Lesnar, him not being on every show gives WWE opportunities it will have with no one else. It makes him unique and it puts a target on him that other Superstars should strive to hit. If one of them could do so, it could make their career.

Lesnar’s personality makes him easy to dislike and the fact that he’s not in love with professional wrestling will never endear him to fans, but the fact that he isn’t on your television screen every week isn’t the end of the world.

There’s a positive way to look at most everything.