Lesnar/Cena/Rollins (a good WWE triple threat match?)

Brock Lesnar v John Cena v Seth Rollins (Royal Rumble, 1/25/15)

This might be my favourite WWE triple threat ever. That isn't a huge bar because it's not really a match type I can be arsed with, but the ropey parts you usually get with them were worked around pretty well. Lesnar ruled as an indestructible juggernaut and I thought he sold progressive damage awesomely, as he usually does. You can gripe about him shrugging off AAs and treating them like regular body slams and I won't really argue with you, but every fucker has shrugged off an AA or twelve and Lesnar SHOULD be booked like that. If Dolph Ziggler is kicking out of AAs then better believe it shouldn't be keeping Brock Lesnar down for more than a hiccup. Plus his bumping was generally shit hot and he takes a curb stomp better than anyone. That sequence where Cena speared him through the barricade, wellied him with the steps and then Rollins crushed him with the elbow through the table ruled, and how Brock sold that accumulation of damage was a big part of it. You think he's out, then he gets up again so his opponents have to take it a step further. He gets up again, so they have to respond in kind. He was like the perfect anime villain who'd take the big energy blast, the hero thinking he's finally finished him off, only for the dust to settle and there stands Brock, little more than a scratch as evidence he's even been in a fight. The Suplex City stuff can be super lame when it's the crux of a match, but there's a stupendous car crash quality to him flinging guys around and it'll generally work for me as part of a bigger picture. Rollins took one German all weird on his shoulder and ear and Cena, who isn't the most natural looking bumper anyway, took Germans on his elbows and way up on his neck. The bit where Noble and Mercury tried to interfere and Lesnar fucking suplexed the both of them was also badass. Basically, Lesnar is a guy whose stuff looks killer, obviously has the aura of being a wrecking ball, so those annoying triple threat tropes where someone has to chill out on the peripheries for a while feel more plausible than usual where Lesnar is involved. Similarly, if you're going to take HIM out for a prolonged period you better make it look good, and this felt like something you could see keeping even the inexorable Lesnar out for a while. Unfortunately his absence meant we got an extended Cena/Rollins segment and that struck me as the weakest period of the match by far. Wasn't terrible or anything, but Rollins is the worst and it was nowhere near as engaging as the stuff involving Lesnar. Brock bursting back into the action with a huge deadlift German was an awesome moment though, and I liked how he dropped to his knees afterwards as if all his adrenaline had been spent in the aftermath of getting smashed through a table.