Brock Lesnar's 6 best World Title defenses

#2 Brock Lesnar vs. Eddie Guerrero (WWE Title, No Way Out 2004)

Eddie Guerrero created one of the biggest feelgood moments of the decade.

It seemed impossible that Eddie Guerrero could possibly win the WWE Championship on the final stop to WrestleMania XX back in 2004. Brock Lesnar, much like he is today, was a nearly unstoppable monster and Guerrero was a much smaller man and the clear underdog.

This underdog story worked, as the crowd had loved Eddie Guerrero for many years thanks to his great wrestling and multitude of entertaining personas. It was David versus Goliath, and while (probaby) the majority of the WWE Universe was hoping to see David win this battle, it seemed like a longshot, at best.

This feeling was made even stronger by the fact that it was widely known that WrestleMania XX was going to be Goldberg's final match. Goldberg and Lesnar had been feuding for months, and it only made sense that Lesnar, who had made a career of destroying legends and even putting them into (at least semi) retirement, was going to do the same to Goldberg. Lesnar became the second man to "end Hulkamania", when he defeated Hulk Hogan on an episode of SmackDown in 2002.

He won his first World Title and sent The Rock off to Hollywood at SummerSlam 2002. Later that same year, he tore The Undertaker apart in a way that nobody had ever done. So, of course Lesnar was going to be the guy to end Goldberg's career. He would bring the WWE Championship to WrestleMania and successfully defend it against Goldberg, continuing his run as a dominating champion and ending the career of a surefire Hall of Famer.

But that didn't happen. Either WWE knew that Lesnar was getting ready to leave or they just wanted to give the top title to their hottest babyface leading up to WrestleMania. Either way, Eddie Guerrero took Lesnar to the limit. Lesnar wrestled Kurt Angle in a 60-minute Iron Man match and lasted over 60 minutes in a Royal Rumble match, but the first was stipulated to be 60 minutes, and there were 29 other people in the other.

No man other that the legendary Eddie Guerrero was able to not only last 30 minutes with Lesnar, but actually defeat him in that timeframe as well.

Yes, the match is slightly marred based on the way it ended, as Goldberg took Lesnar out with a spear very shortly befoe Guerrero ascended the top turnbuckle and flew onto Lesnar to defeat him with the Frog Splash. However it doesn't ruin the 28 prior minutes that saw Guerrero take everything Lesnar could possibly throw at him and keep moving forward. It was a great match, easily one of Lesnar's greatest matches, and definitely one of the best matches in WWE history.