Brock Lesnar has been tormenting Cody Rhodes ever since The Beast attacked the former AEW star for no reason on a night where the two of them were supposed to be teaming together. Going into SummerSlam with one win each, the first of four main events was the third, and likely final, meeting between the two, and Rhodes was the one who emerged victorious.

How We Got Here

The first of the three matches between Rhodes and Lesnar went down at Backlash. Rhodes won that match and that naturally didn't sit well with The Beast. Lesnar got his revenge by breaking Rhodes' arm and then beating his rival in a rematch at Night of Champions. Although the wait for match number three has been a longer one, there was always going to be a tiebreaker, and it was also likely Rhodes was going to win it.

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The beginnings of their SummerSlam match were reminiscent of Lesnar's infamous beatdown of John Cena at SummerSlam 2014, The Beast instructing Rhodes to stay down as he warned him things would only get worse every time he got to his feet. It wasn't until deep into the match when Rhodes managed to push Lesnar forcefully into the ringpost during one of his many visits to ringside that the tide finally started to turn.

How It Ended

Breaking out of Lesnar's Kimura Lock, Rhodes put the final moments of the match in motion by slapping the submission used to break his arm on the man who uses it most in WWE. Lesnar didn't tap, but the damage was done. The former WWE Champion attempted to give Rhodes one last F5 to win the match but The American Nightmare reversed it into a Cross Rhodes, and then another, and then a third. That proved too much for Lesnar to come back from.

What came after the match might have been the most shocking moment of all. A beaten Lesnar stood up, walked towards Rhodes, and shook his hand. Not only did he shake Rhodes' hand, but The Beast embraced the man who just beat him and raised his arm, not something you see from Lesnar very often, if ever. Now Rhodes' journey moves past Lesnar, presumably towards another shot at the WWE Undisputed Universal Championship. Eventually.