WWE Raw Turned Braun Strowman Face Again Only To Stall His Push For The Sake Of Brock Lesnar

Author: Blake Oestriecher / Source: Forbes

WWE Raw has officially pulled a Big Show with Braun Strowman, turning “The Monster Among Men” babyface again not even three months after he turned heel.

The running joke about “The World’s Largest Athlete,” who turned heel on SmackDown 1000, is that it was only fitting that a man who seems to have moved to the dark side about a thousand times did so for the 1,000th time on the blue brand’s historic 1,000th episode.

The actual number of times Big Show has turned is somewhere in the 30s and though Strowman is quite far away from hitting that number, his short-lived stint as a villain proved why it was a bad and short-sighted move in the first place.

After SummerSlam, WWE pulled the trigger on a Strowman heel turn that, in hindsight, was clearly a desperation Hail Mary meant to give Roman Reigns a formidable heel foe to feud with during the fall. At the time of his unexpected and certainly questionable heel turn, Strowman was, along with Seth Rollins, probably the most popular star on Raw. Not only had Strowman become one of WWE’s biggest draws, but he had solidified himself as one of its top merchandise sellers as well, representing exactly what WWE fans wanted to see: A hard-working, quickly improving superstar with the “it factor” who could carry Raw as its top champion.

Then, Reigns’ unfortunate leukemia diagnosis forced WWE to quickly turn Strowman back into a babyface, seemingly so he could be crowned the new Universal Champion by defeating Brock Lesnar at Crown Jewel.

The widespread belief was that Lesnar came back for Crown Jewel purely because of the hefty payday and likely wouldn’t be figured into any immediate future storylines.

But boy oh boy, how wrong we were. The same fans who never truly accepted Strowman’s forced heel turn, despite his association with Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre or his attempts to generate heat by criticizing the WWE Universe, just couldn’t accept the outcome of Strowman and Lesnar’s Universal title match.

F5 after F5 after F5, and three minutes later,…

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