Bobby Lashley vs. Brock Lesnar for the WWE Championship, from WWE Royal Rumble 2022

I am judging this in a vacuum, gleefully ignoring how the storyline implications of the match basically telegraphed how the main event of the evening (an hour-long match meant to build up the main event of the company’s forthcoming biggest show of the year) would conclude. To that end, I got what I wanted out of this, two big dudes dropping each other on their heads and destroying the scenery and ending things long before it could get boring. Yes, this doomed the main event, but I don’t give a shit, I had fun and that’s mostly what matters here.

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