Here comes the pain........Again!!!!

Hello all

As I was watching wrestling this past week, I saw that WWE is gearing up for their next Pay per View, “Extreme Rules”. One of the main events for that PPV is John Cena vs. Brock Lesnar. I was watching Brock do this interview, and I was telling my wife who Brock Lesnar was. Then I realized that people may not know exactly who Brock Lesnar is. So here we go, this will be a blog about “The Next Big Thing”, “Mr. Here Comes the Pain” Himself, Brock Lesnar.

Lesnar started wrestling early in his life. He wrestled in high school. During his senior year he went undefeated, 33-0. He later attended Bismarck State College, in South Dakota. In 1998 he became the National Junior Collegiate Athletics Association (NJCAA) Heavyweight Champion. He later transferred to the University of Minnesota. In 2000 he won the NCAA Heavyweight Championship. He was a 2-time NJCAA All-American, a 2-time NCAA All-American, and a 2-time Big Ten Conference Champion. After such an illustrious college career, Lesnar signed up with WWE.
In 2000, he started in Ohio Valley Wrestling. There he developed as a wrestler. He was in OVW with all of the stars of today, like John Cena, Randy Orton, Shelton Benjamin, and Batista. Over the next 2 years, he and Benjamin would win the OVW Tag Team Titles. After years of dominance in the OVW, it was time for Lesnar to make the jump up to the big time. WWE.

Lesnar started in 2002 in WWE right after WrestleMania. This was a very interesting time for the company, a time of transition. Stone Cold Steve Austin and The Rock were no longer the major players in the company that they once were. Shawn Michaels had not come back to the company yet, and the company was getting ready to do their brand extension, where they would have an exclusive roster for each show, meaning the people on Raw, were only wrestlers on Raw, and the people on SmackDown would only wrestle on SmackDown. Lesnar came along and shook up the whole roster. He came to Raw and basically destroyed everyone in his path. From the Hardys, to Rikishi, to Al Snow, even to the immortal Hulk Hogan, he destroyed them all.
In 2002, WWE was trying something new. At the (then annual) King of the Ring PPV, WWE announced that the winner of the tournament would be the #1 contender for the Undisputed WWE Title. Lesnar beat Bubba Ray Dudley and Booker T on Raw. Then at the PPV he defeated Test, and Rob Van Dam. Brock was set to face the WWE Undisputed Champion at Summer Slam. The Rock went on to win the title, and he and Brock were set to fight for the title at Summer Slam.

At Summer Slam “the Next Big Thing” became the Undisputed Champion. He also became the youngest person ever to win the WWE championship. As the Undisputed Champion Lesnar could go on both shows, to defend the title. But Stephanie McMahon signed him to an exclusive contract on SmackDown, making the title no longer Undisputed, and just the WWE Championship.

On SmackDown, Lesnar entered into an instant feud with the Undertaker. They fought for months over the WWE title. They fought at the PPV “Unforgiving”. This match ended in a double disqualification. The next time these two met there would have to be a winner, because this match would be contested in Hell in a Cell. At the “No Mercy” PPV, they had one of the greatest matches I have ever seen. This Hell in a Cell match is the stuff legends are made of. Brock beat Undertaker, and left him in a bloody heap. I don’t think any has ever done that to Taker, so this was the coming out moment for Lesnar.
Next up for Lesnar was the Big Show. They met at Survivor Series where Lesnar would lose the title, by being double crossed by his manager, Paul Heyman. Lesnar was trying to make his way back up to the top of the roster, so he had to win the Royal Rumble. At the Rumble Lesnar won, and was on his way to Mania to wrestle for the WWE title. Lesnar Wrestled Kurt Angle at Mania. They had a great match. Angle was very courageous, because he wrestled with a broken neck, and was going to have surgery after Mania. During their match Lesnar almost killed himself, by trying to do a backflip off of the top rope, but he jammed his neck, and gave himself a concussion. But somehow Lesnar was able to finish the match, and win the title.

For the next year Lesnar would feud with Angle over the WWE Title. Angle would come back from surgery and win the title at the “Vengeance” PPV. Lesnar and Angle would fight for the title again at Summer slam, with Angle winning again. Finally Lesnar regained the title in an Iron Man match on SmackDown. After winning back the title, Lesnar was very dominating beating everyone that came across his path.

Then in 2004 Lesnar started a feud with Goldberg, from Raw. Lesnar went so far as to cost Goldberg the Royal Rumble match, when he gave him an F5 (his signature move), which led to him being thrown out of the ring. This upset Goldberg so much, that he was going to do whatever he could to cost Lesnar his title. At the “No Way Out” PPV, Lesnar had a title against Eddie Guerrero. That night Goldberg speared Lesnar, which aided in Guerrero winning the WWE Title. This led to a match between Goldberg and Lesnar at WrestleMania 20. Lesnar lost this match, and was done with WWE.
His life after WWE has had a lot to do with wrestling and fighting. Lesnar wrestled in Japan, becoming the IWGP champion. He then went out and joined the Ultimate Fighting Champion (UFC) Company. It would not take him long to conquer there also. He joined UFC in 2008, later that year he won the UFC World Heavyweight title. Lesnar was the new champion, but he was not fighting a lot. On November 4th 2009, Lesnar confirmed he was suffering from mononucleosis, and had to take some time off from fighting. When he came back he defeated the interim champion Shane Carwin. In October 2010 Lesnar was defeated for the UFC World Title by Cain Velasquez, and though he had another fight or 2 after that, he never returned to the main spotlight in UFC.
Now Lesnar is back in WWE. He says he came back because wrestling needs him. I am waiting to see. I have not seen Lesnar in the ring for almost 8 years. A lot of his matches in UFC were very short. He was a big guy with a lot of agility, and that helped him in the cage. But in the ring we are looking for guys who can tell stories. We are going to have to have him in 20 or 30 minute matches, like the old Brock Lesnar. I am not saying he can’t do it, I am just saying I hope so. If he can be the guy he was 8 years ago, the next few years in wrestling will be AWESOME!

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