WWE SummerSlam 2012: Brock Lesnar's Retirement Will Ruin PPV Momentum

We all knew the danger of bringing Brock Lesnar back to WWE was he would not be around very much. His sporadic appearances don't allow him to build any momentum, which will ruin his drawing power coming off a brilliant SummerSlam performance. 

Lesnar has been given a unique push that makes him look and feel different than anything else currently in WWE. When he is on television, you can't help but feel compelled to watch everything he does. 

Yet SummerSlam, followed by Raw the next night, were a microcosm of everything wrong with having Lesnar in WWE. 

Starting with the pay-per-view match, Lesnar and Triple H did a really good job of telling the story they needed to tell. Lesnar was the vicious monster who came in whenever he wanted and did anything he felt like. 

Triple H is the new responsible corporate face of the company. He is doing what he can to ensure that nothing threatens the product the fans pay to see, as well as his future empire. 

With Lesnar breaking Triple H's arm in storyline, the possibilities were limitless. We could have had Lesnar talk about taking over WWE, or bringing chaos to everything that Triple H and Vince McMahon have built. 

But then it was all undone shortly after Lesnar and Heyman came out on Raw. They bragged about everything they had done to Triple H and Shawn Michaels in a span of six days, which was the right thing to do. 

Then, inexplicably, Lesnar decides to Tout that he has accomplished everything he wanted to in WWE and is going away forever. 

Wrestling is all about momentum. You have to appear at least semi-regularly on television in order for the fans to care about you at all. On Monday, no one in the crowd was really that behind Lesnar because there is no reason to be. He will show up and go away, which does no favors for him or WWE. 

Anything WWE hoped to accomplish with Lesnar at SummerSlam will be completely washed away since Lesnar only has to appear a handful of times to get his paycheck. It was a nice idea when he first came back, but he is not making a difference in business anywhere near what we thought. 

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