WWE: 7 Old-School Wrestlers We Would Love to See Face Brock Lesnar

Love him, hate him or just plain don't care. I am not a huge Brock Lesnar fan, and while his impact since coming back to the WWE has been good, it has not been as huge as maybe corporate suits would have liked.

And with Paul Heyman as his "advisor," there are plenty of angles to take concerning the big man.

I'd like to take an old-school approach.

While there is a menacing aura about Lesnar and his ability to dominate everyone in the WWE, could he do the same in another era? Could he be the one force that could take over an older NWA or AWA or even the WWF in years past?

Would he have been the more intimidating "Hollywood" Hulk Hogan of that era?

Here are some wrestlers I would love to have seen battle Lesnar in the ring.

Bruiser Brody

The independent wrestler every promoter wanted to have in his territory at least once.

Brody was a man amongst men.

The freakish style with the wild hair and imposing look. Brody could fight his way out of any situation and was immensely popular overseas and in the Caribbean.

The only issue with Brody was he was so independent that if he did not like outcomes of matches, he would leave the territory or not show up for matches.

Most promoters wouldn't stand for that.

Dick the Bruiser

Big, barrel-chested and ready for a good fight. He fashioned himself as a bar-fighting champion in the AWA and was the tag team partner of Crusher.

Just a big, bruising brawler.

He would have been undersized against Lesnar at 6'1" and 260 pounds, but William Afflis would not have backed down.

Harley Race

Maybe the only guy in this group who would be favored in a fight.

Race was the toughest SOB in the NWA in the late 1970s and early 1980s. And as Ric Flair said in his book, To Be The Man, there was no one tougher in the ring.

Race used his brawling style and his fists and head (head-butting opponents off the top rope) to beat his opponents up.

Stan Hansen

The "Bad Man from Borger, Texas" was a rough and rugged brawler who was just as popular in Japan as he was hated in the states.

The former AWA World Champion (he beat Rick Martel for the title) never backed down from a challenge.

He wasn't as skilled as Lesnar (few are and were), but I would have loved to have seen what he could do in the ring with the more agile competitor.

His finishing move, "The Lariat," could take someone's head off.

Meng

One of the more underrated wrestlers in his era, there may not have been a tougher heel in the NWA or WCW.

Meng was a seriously great tag team wrestler and a capable singles champion. He may have had the hardest head in the business in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

And he never backed down. A man of few words and a man of a world of strength.

Dr. Death Steve Williams

There were few wrestlers in the 1980s who were as tough and rugged as Steve Williams.

As a wrestler in Cowboy Bill Watts' UWF and then a star in the Orient, Williams was a tough brawler, a real SOB and someone who would start the bar fight and end it as well.

He and Terry Gordy (another rugged SOB and former member of the Freebirds) battled together and against each other in the states and in Japan.

Hawk or Animal

They weren't "wrestlers," so to speak.

Hawk and Animal came upon the wrestling scene and took over the tag team division by scaring the crap out of their opponents.

Could they have the same effect on someone as large (actually larger) than they were?

If you are looking for raw power and a couple of wrestlers with the ability to throw a punch and take one, maybe Hawk and Animal have the best chance of taking the big man down.