Awesome / Braun Strowman

Goldberg who?

• The beatdown he gave Roman Reigns on the 10 April 2017 episode of RAW, where he just completely brutalises Reigns, culminating with tipping an ambulance right over, while the crowd cheers like crazy, chanting "YOU DESERVE IT!!" at Reigns as well as "THANK YOU, STROWMAN!" Doubles as an unintentional Funny Moment when he would repeatedly leave after a flurry, allow the medical crew to attend to Reigns before charging back in to attack Reigns while screaming 'I'M NOT FINISHED WITH YOU!' to even more cheers.
• He followed it up the next week by laying waste to Golden Truth and Kalisto before main-eventing against the Big Show. How does the match end? With Braun superplexing Show, and the ring imploding! This has only happened three times in WWE history (all three involving Big Show in some capacity), and Braun standing tall after all of it shows how Badass he is.
• Beating Reigns clean as a whistle at Payback 2017 and delivering another No-Holds-Barred Beatdown to him. At one point, Reigns attempted a Superman Punch at point-blank range, only for Braun to catch him in the Arm Triangle Choke in midair. By the end of it all, Roman could barely stand, struggling to breathe, and coughing up blood. "Holy shit" indeed.
• Proving to be Made of Iron at Great Balls of Fire 2017, shrugging off superman punches, chair shots, being thrown through the stage wall, and having the ambulance he was in rammed straight into a WWE trailer at full speed. After all that he was bleeding and limping, but still managed to stagger off under his own power.
  • The chair shots he took are an understated Moment of Awesome; after taking some chair shots to his injured elbow, Braun straight-up no-sold the next volley of point-blank chair shots...with his good arm. Reigns' Oh, Crap! face could not have been more justified.
• Despite the above wreck, Strowman still managed to show up on Raw just one week after the pay-per-view. He interrupted a #1 contender's match between Roman Reigns and Samoa Joe, and laid out both of them. Let's reiterate — he stepped into the ring with two of the most dangerous men in the WWE in 2017, with his arm bandaged up, and flattened BOTH of them.
• In a Last Man Standing match against Roman on the August 7th edition of Raw, Braun countered Roman attempting to spear him outside the ring by literally throwing an office chair into Roman's face. The relative ease with which he managed to throw something as unwieldy as an office chair propels this right through Funny Moments and straight into downright awesome.

• In the Universal Championship Fatal-4-Way title match at Summerslam 2017, The Monster Among Men lived up to his name as Braun Strowman dominated the majority, manhandling Roman Reigns, Samoa Joe and especially Brock Lesnar. Braun all but murdered the Beast Incarnate, sending him through two announce tables with a Power Slam and dumping the third one on top of him — at which point Lesnar was stretchered out of the ring area to the back. When Brock came back out he took Braun down to the mat and hit him with a few punches, but that was the only offense he would get on Braun, failing to give him a German Suplex or an F-5. Brock could do nothing to Braun after that surprise takedown. Braun destroyed Lesnar in a way that has not been seen in a long time if ever in WWE and Lesnar was lucky to escape that match with the title after pinning Reigns. If Brock faces Braun one-on-one it's a near-certainty he won't be walking out of that match with the title or his health.
• The next night on RAW's opening segment, Braun continued his dominance as once again he laid out the Beast with two Power Slams like he was nothing, holding up Lesnar's title afterwards and staking his claim to the title. One thing is clear: Brock and his title reign is in very deep trouble.
• On the September 4th edition of Raw, Braun defeated the Big Show. Braun unleashed a promo. After the promo, Braun threw Show through the cage.
• After a Paul Heyman promo on the September 11th edition of Raw, Braun came down the ring and got into a brawl with Lesnar. Brock managed to get Strowman into a German suplex, but Braun wasn't even phased by the suplex and choke slammed Brock. Finishing off "the beast" with a power slam. To add insult to injury, Braun put his foot on top of Lesnar and placed the title on him before leaving.
• At TLC, Strowman began to fight with Kane. During the match, Kane dropped several steel chairs on Strowman before he got back up. This eventually led to The Miz and The Bar to turn on Strowman and attack him. Strowman was thrown into the back of a garbage truck and driven out of the arena. Two weeks later, Braun began to play mind games with the Miztourage by leaving a trash bag in their locker room. This led to Miz becoming paranoid when his TLC partners said he was on his own. At the end of the show, the Miztourage tried to leave when a garbage truck blocked their way. The back began to open and out came Braun looking pissed. The Miztourage began to run, but Strowman caught up to them and began to decimate each of them. Strowman threw each one down the ramp. Braun got Miz into the ring, but Curtis Axel helped Miz escape. However, Axel was powerslammed four times in the ring before finally being powerslammed through the announce table.
• During the main event of the November 13th edition of Raw, Strowman managed to get revenge on Kane by powerslamming "The Big Red Machine" through the ring.
• At Survivor Series 2017, Braun Strowman cleaned house. After taking out Shinsuke Nakamura and Bobby Roode in quick succession, he gets 5-man suplexed through the announce table by the entire Smackdown team. And then later on, he gets up from that, looking no worse for wear and takes Randy Orton out as well. Then at the end, Triple H Pedigrees Kurt Angle, purely so he can score the winning pin against Shane McMahon himself. After staring at HHH in utter bafflement for a short while, he realizes he's been played by HHH, and chokes him into the corner threatening him on his actions. Once he releases him, HHH decides to give him a Pedigree. Unfortunately, he manages to counter it and gives him a running powerslam, TWICE. He wasn't kidding with what he said. Lesson learned: Don't mess with Braun Strowman!
  Braun: IF YOU EVER TRY TO CROSS ME AGAIN... YOU WILL NEVER PLAY THIS GAME AGAIN!
  • So in one night, Braun Strowman took out 60% of Team Smackdown's line-up (all of which were A-listers in the brand), made a full recovery from being suplexed through a table, and powerslammed the COO of the entire company twice. The era of Strowman is only just beginning.
• On the January 8th, 2018, edition of RAW Strowman's Royal Rumble opponents, Kane and Brock Lesnar get into a brawl that goes backstage. Braun ambushes both of them and throws Brock through a table before hitting Kane with a stage crate knocking "The Big Red Machine" into another one. Braun drops the stage crate onto Kane before moving onto another one and opening it. Inside he finds a grapple hook which he tosses onto the arena scaffolding and pull it down ontop of his opponents. Before unleashing a victory roar and leaving.
• January 15, 2018 has Kurt Angle learn why it’s a bad mistake to mess with Braun, even just by firing him. He flings around security guards like dolls, slams Curt Hawkins through a table, and then to top the ambulance, he FLIPS OVER A GODDAMN SEMI TRAILER!!
• The 2018 Royal Rumble saw Braun get a little too rough with Brock Lesnar, resulting in an angry Brock repaying him with a legitimate, stiff punch to the head which would have decapitated most normal men. The fact that Braun quickly shook it off, continued the match (and was a lot more careful with his offense from that point) is a moment of awesome for his legitimate toughness and professionalism.
• While it isn't any sort of heavy vehicle, in a Last Man Standing Match against Kane, Braun flipped over part of the stage with the announcer table on it. Not only was Kane unable to answer the 10 count, but he was also taken out via stretcher.
• Elimination Chamber 2018: Good lord, where do we start? His near Implacable Man status throughout the match, taking multiple Superman Punches, Spears, an AA (kicking out at 1!), a Coup de Gras to the chest and back of his head, and a QUADRUPLE Shield Bomb with four men stacking him for the pin, none of which took? Him being responsible for every single elimination (except his at the hands of a weary Roman Reigns) in the match? The monster biel he delivered off the top of a pod, throwing Miz onto the other competitors? The running shotgun dropkick he delivered to Rollins? Or that, even in defeat, he looked far more dominant than Reigns ever could by tossing him, with one hand, through the fiberglass pod doors and leaving him laying once again?
• The March 5th, 2018 episode of RAW saw Braun face off against Elias in a Symphony of Destruction, falls count anywhere match. It started with Elias bolting away from the arena and to a car in the back. As he attempted to get away, he noticed that he wasn't getting anywhere, and that's when he saw Braun lifting the back end of a car that was about to speed off. After the match goes on for a while, he goes to a large double bass on stage similar to one he had used on Elias before, and hit him with it. Obviously, he's not finished with him, and after playing on a piano on stage, he takes that same piano, kicks off one of the legs, and crushes Elias with it, and then literally tossing it aside to pin Elias. Needless to say, this was a Smashing Hit.
• March 13, 2018 saw a Tag-Team Battle Royal between the whole RAW tag team division to see who was worthy of facing the reigning tag champs The Bar at WrestleMania. To everyone's shock, Braun showed up, absolutely laid waste to the whole division, and won the entire thing. By himself. In a Tag Team Battle Royal. There’s even a moment where the whole tag team division work together to try and throw him over the top rope, and they fail.
  Braun (to Karl Anderson, before eliminating him to win the match): I’M GOIN’ TO WRESTLEMANIA!!!
  • YMMV with this to some extent, as one has to feel pretty bad for the other tag teams. In fact, it’s likely the whole reason Braun was a surprise entrant was that RAW had been so focused on building up The Bar that they allowed the other tag teams to languish. At that point, the rest of the tag teams were so unable to meet The Bar that Creative had to reach outside the division altogether to find a real threat.
  • Braun was set to win the Tag Titles on his own, but Kurt Angle (Active GM of Raw) told him he needed to find a partner. After weeks of building up this partner after defeating each member of The Bar in singles competition, come Wrestlemania, Braun grabbed the Mic and said "My Partner, is one of you!"(pointing at the crowd). Braun picked someone from the crowd, who happened to be a 10 yr old boy name Nicholas, and actually win the titles, not only did Nicholas and Braun's victory recognized by WWE (Making Nicholas the youngest ever champion), but Braun had Nicholas stay in the corner the whole time, essentially winning the Tag Titles on his own, like he promised.
• Braun entering the 50-Man Greatest Royal Rumble in Saudi Arabia and not only winning the whole thing, but doing so scoring a record-breaking 13 eliminations (surpassing Roman Reigns' 12 at the 2014 Rumble).

• And while his IC run ended embarrassingly quickly, WWE finally, finally pulled the trigger on Braun when Roman was forced to pull out of his WrestleMania 36 Universal championship match against Goldberg by the COVID-19 Pandemic and Braun was inserted in his place. While everyone wrote Braun off as just being there to keep Goldberg warm until he could have a chance to put Roman over later on, Braun shocked everyone and, after four powerslams, beat Goldberg for the WWE Universal Championship! Ladies and gentlemen, WWE Universal Champion Braun Strowman! For added awesomeness, here's a list of superstars who have pinned Goldberg cleanly, in a one-on-one match, in any company at any point: The Undertaker, Brock Lesnar, Drew McIntyre, and Braun Strowman. That's good company.
• September 5, 2022: He's Back! Cue huge pop as Strowman returns to WWE for the first time since his firing, and proceeds to lay waste to everyone in his way before putting Angelo Dawkins through the announce table.

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