Braun Strowman and/or Baron Corbin and/or Samoa Joe
For the most part, these would effectively be the same thing, but a reversal in terms of babyface/heel synergy.
Essentially, Cass could have been a decent big man to feud with these three larger athletes and, if built up enough ahead of time, put them over as being above him on the totem pole.
He’s never reached the status any of them have, and now that he’s gone, he likely won’t ever have that opportunity, but in a theoretical world where Cass would have been able to beat Bryan, his stock would have risen quite a bit.
Then, if those wins were kept up, he’d be able to feud with any of these three and look like a potential threat to them.
He would certainly play the heel to Strowman, but he could also turn face down the line and be paired with Corbin or Joe, just the same.
In particular, Corbin could use a win over someone like that, as he’s always going up and down the hierarchy and never seems able to stay in one spot for too long, but even Joe could use a big man to fight on SmackDown, which doesn’t boast a roster of particularly tall wrestlers.
Big Show
Assuming there was a future in Cass—and at one point, a few years ago, I really thought he had the potential to be a main event player, if he were to continue to improve—he would have had to go through Big Show at some point to be put over as one of his successors.
Naturally, it would be a pretty standard affair, with Big Show as the veteran and Big Cass as the younger star looking to take down the legend and plant his own feet where Show once stood, and he’d be successful.
Ideally, he’d have to work for it, and it wouldn’t come too easily, but by the end of the feud, he’d come out of it looking like someone who could take the reins for a future generation.
I’ll admit, the actual matches themselves could have turned out to be horrible, but the concept behind it is solid enough to sell me on being interested for at least their first encounter.
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