WWE SummerSlam: 5 Reasons Why Brock Lesnar Must Conquer The Undertaker

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Billed as the biggest rematch in WWE history, Brock Lesnar vs. The Undertaker is undeniably a worthy main event for this year’s SummerSlam. Whether it ends up being as great as it’s being hyped up to be remains to be seen, but seeing The Undertaker finally get his revenge on Lesnar’s ass in Brooklyn is going to be great, right? Wrong. When The Beast conquered The Streak at WrestleMania and become the one in twenty one and one, the foundation of the WWE Universe was forever altered. A controversial and very divisive moment, Lesnar’s victory sent shockwaves across the world, received mainstream media attention, and even caused Jon Stewart to embark on a passionate rant much to the surprise of his bemused Daily Show audience. It was a once in a lifetime moment which the WWE are now inevitably looking to repeat, but with no Streak on the line, the Deadman emerging the victor in order to make up for his devastating loss on the grandest stage of them all feels like a given. However, it’s essential that the man who has already conquered him once does so again. While it probably won’t be a popular decision, Lesnar leaving the Barclays Arena as the victor is essential and losing isn’t an option for him. The Undertaker meanwhile shouldn’t even come close to winning. Why? Well, here are the eight biggest reasons why there’s only one way this epic rematch should end less than one week from now…The Streak is dead, and The Undertaker has only made three televised appearances since it came to an end. Those were WrestleMania 31, Battleground, and Raw a few weeks back. There’s really no reason to suspect his TV time is going to dramatically increase after SummerSlam, and if the plan is for the Deadman to continue making sporadic appearances over the next few years and engage in these seemingly random rivalries (what did that match with Bray Wyatt accomplish again?), then a victory here isn’t going to change anything. If he defeats Lesnar, is it really going to redeem his loss at WrestleMania? It’s that shocking and unbelievable moment which is going to go down in history, not the rematch from nearly a year and a half later. The Undertaker simply isn’t around enough to gain anything from beating Lesnar. A victory at SummerSlam is something the commentary team is likely to mention when he returns for WrestleMania 32 and might be a talking point the Phenom brings up in a future promo, but a loss for Lesnar feels like little more than a bid by the WWE to appease fans who were left outraged by the fact that The Beast conquered the Streak in 2014. As impressive as The Streak was, it lost its meaning when it became apparent that it was never going to end. That fact that it did is what made Lesnar’s victory in New Orleans so shocking, and he’s benefited from it in a major way since. Had The Undertaker won yet again, no one would even remember that match by now, and a victory at SummerSlam for him would also no doubt be soon forgotten.When Brock Lesnar emerged victorious from WrestleMania 30, he was transformed from the guy who came back and spent a year being beaten by Triple H into an unstoppable Beast on a vicious path of destruction. Brock was always worth watching, but seeing if anyone could put an end to him as an almost unstoppable force made his matches even more compelling, and as he dominated everyone from John Cena to Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins in convincing fashion, it was almost as if he had inherited The Undertaker’s supernatural powers! WWE Creative has already made some mistakes with Lesnar in recent months by ending a Raw with Brock being easily beaten down by Rollins and The Authority, a fate which nearly every Superstar on the roster has seemingly suffered at one point or another (and as we’re supposed to view him as being on another level to everyone else, that’s a problem). Even so, the way Lesnar took Rollins to Suplex City and shook off nearly all his offence proved that The Beast was still very much alive at Battleground. Could his apparent indestructibility get old? it’s possible, but not if he’s continuously pitted against only those with a chance of taking him down. The Undertaker is certainly one of those people, but a victory for the Deadman here would likely rob Lesnar of the mystique he’s built up since WrestleMania 30. He’ll become the guy who defeated The Undertaker by chance and someone who was unable to do so a second time. After all, if a 50 year old part-timer can come back out of the blue and take down the so-called Beast, why should any of us buy into him as a meaningful threat moving