#3 Brock Lesnar wins via TKO
Brock Lesnar’s SummerSlam résumé reads as follows: defeated The Rock, lost against Kurt Angle, defeated Triple H, defeated CM Punk, defeated John Cena, lost against The Undertaker, defeated Randy Orton, defeated Roman Reigns, Samoa Joe & Braun Strowman, lost against Roman Reigns.
Out of those nine matches, the 2016 main event against Randy Orton stands out as one of the most memorable in SummerSlam history, simply because the UFC-style finish – several elbows to the head, causing Orton to bleed profusely – is not something that is normally seen in WWE.
The incident even caused a backstage altercation between Lesnar and Chris Jericho, who squared up to “The Beast” because he felt that he went off-script by attacking Orton in the way that he did.
Three years on from that finish, it would be a hugely controversial decision if Seth Rollins played the role of Orton at the 2019 SummerSlam event. But when you consider the attacks we have seen on Raw in recent weeks, it is difficult to see how Lesnar’s beatdowns on Rollins can get any more brutal.
Is it really possible for Lesnar to go from repeatedly F-5ing Rollins onto a steel chair, causing him to bleed from the mouth, to then winning a regular one-on-one match with no weapons or brutality involved?
The next step surely has to be for the Universal Champion to unleash an even more vicious approach in his next in-ring battle with Rollins, which could mean another TKO triumph.