Brock Lesnar, during his mid-2002 run, is quite possibly the only wrestler in history that has ever genuinely scared me. I mean, who else is there? Harley Race? Killer Kowalski? Maybe Haku (if all those stories about him biting people’s noses off are to bolieved). I guess there’s New Jack? But he’s the type of person where you could easily take him out man-to-man if he didn’t have any weapons.
Lesnar felt literally invincible. Like, you wouldn’t find any opening on this animal if you took him on. Not to mention his amateur background that gave him actual athletic legitimacy, made him a force to reckon with (pairing him with the gold medal winner Kurt Angle during 2003 is probably one of the best booking decisions in WWE). I also think his theme "The Next Big Thing" that he came out to with red lighting made him even more frightening.