7 Wrestlers who were fed to Brock Lesnar

#4 Randy Orton

Despite his favoured status in WWE, Orton was fed to Lesnar at Summerslam in 2016.

Randy Orton has been at the top of or near the top of the main-event scene in WWE since the mid-2000s.

Although he's recently taken up more of a part-time schedule, he still returns to the main event of either Raw or Smackdown when creative deems it necessary.

They consider him a tried and true challenger/champion whenever they need him to be.

This became the case when he entered into a feud with Bray Wyatt in 2016 and 2017 and eventually won the Royal Rumble in 2017.

The feud culminated with Orton winning the WWE Championship off of Wyatt at Wrestlemania 33 in one of the strangest feuds across two consecutive PPVs.

Before that even happened, WWE wanted a marquee match for Lesnar at Summerslam in 2016.

Dean Ambrose had taken the WWE Championship to Smackdown in the brand split and Finn Balor and Seth Rollins battled for the newly created Universal Championship.

Since he wasn't featured in either feud and was a part-timer, they still needed a credible challenger for the Beast at one of the biggest PPVs in the calendar year.

They deemed it would be Orton vs. Lesnar at Summerslam.

The match actually turned out to be more of a mauling by Lesnar as he would leave Orton a bloody mess before the match concluded.

It was seen as a move that blurred the lines between kayfabe and reality and it even angered longtime locker room leader Chris Jericho.

Luckily, Jericho wasn't fed to Lesnar as Orton had been.

For WWE to sacrifice someone like Orton to Lesnar seemed a bit odd, but it helped justify Lesnar as the Beast.

Orton didn't lose anything by being brutalized as he was already a made man in WWE.

Someone like Bray Wyatt, however, wouldn't be able to overcome a beating like that.