4 hints that Lars Sullivan will become WWE champion within 18 months

#2 Brock Lesnar-esque impact

After months of waiting, WWE fans finally caught a glimpse of what Lars Sullivan can do when he viciously attacked the retiring Kurt Angle on the episode of Raw after WrestleMania 35.

He then went on to make another big impression the next night on SmackDown Live by attacking both Hardy Boyz after their SmackDown Tag Team title victory, while he also destroyed fellow veterans Rey Mysterio and R-Truth during the Superstar Shake-Up this week.

Why are those names significant? Well, when Brock Lesnar burst onto the WWE scene after WrestleMania X8 in 2002, he immediately targeted some of the most popular names in WWE at the time (The Hardy Boyz, Rob Van Dam etc) before he defeated The Rock for the Undisputed Championship just four months after his debut at SummerSlam 2002.

In Sullivan’s case, it is too early to say whether he will be in WWE Championship contention as early as SummerSlam 2019, but his start to life on the main roster so far is not too dissimilar to how Lesnar began in 2002. If he keeps up the momentum he has right now, it is not inconceivable that his career could take a similar path to Lesnar's over the next four months.