Brock Lesnar may have lost the WWE championship to Drew McIntyre in under five minutes at the crowd-free WrestleMania 36, but he is still a major attraction and will be must-watch television when he returns. That's why Vince McMahon and the executives in WWE are keen on bringing Brock Lesnar back to help combat the low ratings of their shows. It doesn't help that the shows are still being held at the WWE Performance Center with no audiences and part-time legends like Lesnar, John Cena, The Undertaker and Edge have been off TV since WrestleMania. Current superstars like Drew McIntyre, Becky Lynch and Seth Rollins are big, but not the box-office draw that those part-timers are.

Between Cena's busy schedule and The Deadman's advancing age, fans know that Lesnar is guaranteed to return around SummerSlam time (assuming he will be able to travel to the performance center from his home in Canada, of course). He's competed in every SummerSlam since 2012 and made his triumphant return last year after winning the Money in the Bank contract. Since it's unlikely he's going to compete in the ladder match again this year, the company is going to have to find a way to reintroduce The Beast Incarnate in the aftermath of arguably the worst loss of his pro wrestling career. A rematch with McIntyre for the championship would be predictable, but what about someone Lesnar hasn't been in the ring with before who just so happens to have a similar  background in shoot fighting?

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Lesnar has already faced just about every established superstar, both full-time and part-time, over his last decade in WWE. When it tried to bring in a worthy foe with an MMA background, Lesnar's UFC rival Cain Velasquez, their wrestling program only resulted in a single 2-minute match at WWE Crown Jewel. This time, the company should pair him with an established wrestler who also has a history in MMA: Bobby Lashley.

No full-time wrestler on the roster has as much of a resume in mixed martial arts as Lashley does. In between his two stints in the WWE he participated in both other wrestling circuits, like TNA, and several MMA promotions like Strikeforce, Titan Fighting and Shark Fights. His career in Bellator MMA was a huge success and helped make a name for himself in the world of combat sports. In seventeen matches he posted a remarkable 15-2 win-loss record, compelling the WWE to bring him back after a decade away.

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Lashley is stuck in a soap opera romance angle right now, having broken up Lana and Rusev's kayfabe marriage last year and gotten kayfabe married to her himself. Naturally, no kayfabe marriages in the WWE last all that long, and the two have teased a break-up over the past month. By breaking up with Lana and getting into a program with Brock Lesnar, Lashley may finally get taken seriously as one of the baddest men in the business.

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There was a time in 2007 when Lashley was pushed as ECW's (the WWE incarnation) version of John Cena and Batista. His "Battle of the Billionaires" match against Umaga featuring Donald Trump gained huge crossover appeal and led to a feud with the McMahons over the ECW title. Lashley even had a WWE title match with John Cena at The Great American Bash that year, but suffered an injury that put him on the shelf for six months and he was subsequently released. A program with Brock Lesnar would arguably be the biggest thing Lashley has done in WWE since that first big run.

In the past few years Lesnar has helped both Seth Rollins and Drew McIntyre become superstars, and even wrestlers who lost their battles to him, like AJ Styles and Roman Reigns, still benefited from hanging with him. Whether he wins or loses, Bobby Lashley would be helped tremendously by squaring off with The Beast Incarnate.

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