🥇 Classic Wrestling Match Review: Summer Slam 2022 (C) Roman Reigns vs Brock Lesnar

This match was another great one in the long feud between Lesnar and Reigns as they had just met at Wrestlemania 38. Where Reigns successfully defeated Lesnar and unified the WWE Heavyweight Championship and the WWE Universal Championship and went on a run that wont be seen for years.
The primary promo that set off this feud between Lesnar and the Bloodline was a promo on June 17th episode of Snackdown after retaining the title, Reigns made the claim that there was none left to challenge him for the title. As he made this proclimation he was interuppted by Lesnar who came out to offer a handshake. Right before Lesnar dropped both Reigns and the rest of the Bloodline setting up this beautiful Last Man Standing Match at Summerslam 22
Going into the match the expectation was that Lesnar was the most likely guy to end Reigns title run and after the beatdown on Smackdown he gave the rest of the family. It looked like summerslam was going to be the day the BEast got the job done…

This match was a typical Last Man Standing match and gave us plenty of “almost” moments were it looked like both men had done enough to put each other down. Lesnar hit Reigns with about 15 F-5’s and 30 German Suplexes and Reigns hit Lesnar with everything execpt for the Kitchen sink and neither stayed down long enough for the other to win!!!
This match included the Uso’s coming out to help Reigns by attacking Lesnar, Reigns putting Lesnar through multiple tables. Lesnar actually used a tractor to life up a corner of the ring and try to drop Reigns on his butt. Just a few of the many crazy moments in this match.
Austin Theory (who was Mr. Money in the Bank at the time.) interfered and attempted to cash in, but he was stopped by Lesnar and F-5’d out of his body.

This match like many others during the “Tribal Cheif’s” reign this match eneded with interference from other memebers of the bloodline coming out and helping Roman secure the victory and retain he Universal Championship.
With Roman’s win at Summerslam it marked the 2nd anniversary since his return and the beginning of what would become the Roman Reigns Era in WWE till early 2024.

The live crowd was hot and cheered throught the whole match with every big moment. The crowd lost their minds when Lesnar used a tractor to lift up the ring and knocked Roman off his feets. The boo’s were nice and loud when the USO’s made their presence felt and they family was able to bury the Beast for the time being…

I have to give this match an A+, my reasoning behind this rating is because the match had everything you could ask for. They both made it feel like it could go anyones way and the necessity for interferance for Roman would be a sticking point for those who dont like Reigns and never liked his reign.

Thsi match will always be remembered as one of the greats out of the many that took place between Lesnar and Reigns. The two of them have always had a chemistry in ring and this match is really a shining example of that chemistry. Althought the result wasnt what people thought it should be it was the result we needed to tell the bigger story that would be told over the next 2 and half years.

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