WEBVTT 1 00:00:05.240 --> 00:00:08.679 I think people need to understand that Brocklesner was only 2 00:00:08.679 --> 00:00:14.400 here for two years. Brocklesner started the day after WrestleMania 3 00:00:14.480 --> 00:00:18.039 two thousand and two and finished at WrestleMania two thousand 4 00:00:18.039 --> 00:00:21.920 and four. Brock Lesner was here for twenty four months. 5 00:00:22.839 --> 00:00:28.879 That's it. His first run was that fast. His contributions 6 00:00:28.879 --> 00:00:29.679 were enormous. 7 00:00:32.799 --> 00:00:34.799 Only once in a long time can you expect to 8 00:00:34.880 --> 00:00:37.600 see an athlete accountimber a brock Leser. 9 00:00:38.880 --> 00:00:42.079 The number of moments that Brocklesner offered in those two 10 00:00:42.200 --> 00:00:45.000 years unheard of. 11 00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:52.119 Last pass five hundred pounds passed. 12 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:53.719 This last n. 13 00:00:56.520 --> 00:00:58.200 The right to ploded. 14 00:01:01.320 --> 00:01:02.479 But it was only two years. 15 00:01:17.439 --> 00:01:21.079 In the early two thousands, an era in sports entertainment 16 00:01:21.159 --> 00:01:22.480 was introduced to the world. 17 00:01:23.120 --> 00:01:26.319 Today marks the beginning of a new era, an era 18 00:01:27.319 --> 00:01:28.840 from which greatness was born. 19 00:01:29.239 --> 00:01:34.319 Gone that correct, an era that would go down in 20 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:36.079 WWE history. 21 00:01:36.319 --> 00:01:40.239 What the hell A just imploded, old body, It's gonna 22 00:01:40.280 --> 00:01:42.400 stop me, God obody. 23 00:01:42.879 --> 00:01:45.959 Time to shake up raw, time to shake up back 24 00:01:46.040 --> 00:01:48.680 down the jail is. 25 00:01:50.799 --> 00:01:52.799 An era defined in two. 26 00:01:52.599 --> 00:01:56.319 Words, ruthless aggression. 27 00:02:07.799 --> 00:02:10.319 From the time he was eleven years old, there was 28 00:02:10.360 --> 00:02:15.080 something special about this kid from rural South Dakota the champion. 29 00:02:15.080 --> 00:02:17.400 I won eighty nine from Webster brock Lesner. 30 00:02:18.680 --> 00:02:21.479 When he came to wrestling, he was always the best 31 00:02:21.919 --> 00:02:25.319 in middle school, high school, and even in college where 32 00:02:25.319 --> 00:02:28.280 he won the NCAA Heavyweight Championship. 33 00:02:29.439 --> 00:02:34.599 Rock Lesnar from Minnesota is your heavyweight champion. 34 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:39.400 I'm so happy, work hard. I know I deserve it 35 00:02:39.479 --> 00:02:40.039 more than he did. 36 00:02:40.439 --> 00:02:40.599 Well. 37 00:02:40.639 --> 00:02:41.800 We want to congratulate you. 38 00:02:41.960 --> 00:02:44.120 Good luck with the choices after this series. 39 00:02:44.199 --> 00:02:44.479 Thank you. 40 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:50.199 Brock Lesner was a superstar in the makey and quickly 41 00:02:50.240 --> 00:02:53.120 caught the eye of WWE talent scouts. 42 00:02:54.280 --> 00:02:57.919 We spotted Rock and college and started recruiting him. We 43 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:02.680 needed new faces, We needed new stars, new stars, that's 44 00:03:02.680 --> 00:03:03.960 what the business thrives on. 45 00:03:05.759 --> 00:03:07.639 We got Brock and developmental. 46 00:03:08.639 --> 00:03:09.879 We sent it to Louisville. 47 00:03:10.960 --> 00:03:14.360 Even if you have top stars now, that doesn't mean 48 00:03:14.360 --> 00:03:16.840 you're gonna have top stars in two years or three years. 49 00:03:17.199 --> 00:03:19.520 So it's not like you can just sit and say, Okay, 50 00:03:19.520 --> 00:03:21.159 I've got all the wrestlers I need for the next 51 00:03:21.159 --> 00:03:22.039 five or ten years. 52 00:03:22.560 --> 00:03:23.560 That's never gonna happen. 53 00:03:24.360 --> 00:03:27.680 So I hear I've got the NCAA Heavyweight Wrestling Champion. 54 00:03:27.719 --> 00:03:29.000 CA Okay, here we go. 55 00:03:31.280 --> 00:03:34.560 We're so excited to have the finest collegiate wrestler in 56 00:03:34.599 --> 00:03:38.719 the United States. Two thousand NCAA heavyweight champion brock Lester. 57 00:03:40.840 --> 00:03:43.719 Brock came in and he was just a stud physically. 58 00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:45.360 There was nothing that he couldn't do. 59 00:03:45.680 --> 00:03:49.560 The World Wrestling Federation and don't BW have tremendous. 60 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:52.639 Hope for brock Lesner, tremendous athlete and look at him, 61 00:03:52.759 --> 00:03:55.240 couldn't hurt him through ran over room with a car. 62 00:03:55.759 --> 00:04:00.639 I am coming to seek and destroy. 63 00:04:01.639 --> 00:04:05.039 He's a once in a lifetime personality and athlete. 64 00:04:06.599 --> 00:04:09.400 He was as quick as the quickest guy, stronger than 65 00:04:09.439 --> 00:04:10.280 the strongest guy. 66 00:04:11.039 --> 00:04:13.840 Look at the raw power in the break a rock Lester. 67 00:04:14.400 --> 00:04:17.720 Who everything he did was just fast and powerful. You 68 00:04:17.800 --> 00:04:19.480 get a guy who looks like that who's a freak 69 00:04:19.560 --> 00:04:22.759 athlete but also really understands the psychology. 70 00:04:23.160 --> 00:04:24.360 There's some moneymare. 71 00:04:26.800 --> 00:04:30.879 Brock being a freak athlete one day in practice, just 72 00:04:30.920 --> 00:04:32.839 because he saw somebody else try it, or he saw 73 00:04:32.879 --> 00:04:33.839 it on TV or whatever. 74 00:04:34.360 --> 00:04:36.000 Does the shooting star press. 75 00:04:36.439 --> 00:04:37.319 Shelton out of the rank. 76 00:04:37.360 --> 00:04:38.519 Brock class Brow the top. 77 00:04:38.399 --> 00:04:42.720 Broke god god shoutig star Press, Shouting star Press. 78 00:04:42.759 --> 00:04:43.879 That play makes the same. 79 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:47.920 This is not good for a huge guy to do 80 00:04:48.000 --> 00:04:50.800 something like that all the time, But for the big 81 00:04:50.839 --> 00:04:53.639 show boy, you bring a pull out all the stops. 82 00:04:53.639 --> 00:04:54.160 That's great. 83 00:04:55.639 --> 00:05:00.319 Lesnar's freakish athleticism stood out even among a group of the. 84 00:05:00.199 --> 00:05:02.639 Very best athletes to ever set foot in. 85 00:05:02.720 --> 00:05:08.279 OVW But brock grew impatient with the developmental process. 86 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:13.040 Brock Lesner had learned all he was going to learn 87 00:05:13.040 --> 00:05:18.680 and developmental and he was tired of developmental money. Brock 88 00:05:18.759 --> 00:05:22.959 Lesner knew he was the biggest box office attraction that 89 00:05:23.160 --> 00:05:27.519 WWE was going to have, and Brocklesner was tired of waiting. 90 00:05:28.959 --> 00:05:31.680 So Brock made a decision. Moved me up to the 91 00:05:31.720 --> 00:05:36.160 main roster or kissed my ass goodbye. It was a 92 00:05:36.199 --> 00:05:41.639 no brainer of a decision. So Brock is working dark matches, 93 00:05:42.399 --> 00:05:46.120 which are the matches that take place before the television 94 00:05:46.199 --> 00:05:46.759 goes live. 95 00:05:47.079 --> 00:05:48.399 Oh my god, that's next. 96 00:05:48.199 --> 00:05:49.160 World World What ball? 97 00:05:52.720 --> 00:05:53.000 Wait? 98 00:05:53.079 --> 00:05:55.439 Two hundred sent of day five pounds. 99 00:05:55.560 --> 00:05:57.600 Run BLUs thep. 100 00:05:59.720 --> 00:06:03.959 He was getting horrible advice from these veterans that were 101 00:06:04.000 --> 00:06:08.600 still hanging on to their jobs as producers. You're too big, 102 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:11.720 you move too fast. Don't move so fast, stay still, 103 00:06:11.800 --> 00:06:14.000 stand in the middle of the ring and don't move. 104 00:06:16.920 --> 00:06:20.079 So I got together with Brock and gave him some 105 00:06:20.160 --> 00:06:24.560 different advice than what he was receiving, and I asked 106 00:06:24.639 --> 00:06:45.879 Vince to watch Rock's match, and Vince loved it. Vince 107 00:06:46.399 --> 00:06:50.639 told me he was going to put Brock and Hayman 108 00:06:50.800 --> 00:06:51.959 together on screen. 109 00:06:53.759 --> 00:06:56.000 And this is one of the hardcore titles. This title, 110 00:06:56.000 --> 00:06:58.480 as we have said, competed twenty four hours a day, 111 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:07.399 seven days a week at what's the hottest free agent. 112 00:07:10.120 --> 00:07:10.160 Er? 113 00:07:11.319 --> 00:07:12.680 You know who it is? But what are you doing 114 00:07:12.720 --> 00:07:13.079 out here? 115 00:07:14.040 --> 00:07:15.839 He's just he's. 116 00:07:15.720 --> 00:07:19.839 Just drawing, goes, look at this monster. 117 00:07:21.879 --> 00:07:25.759 There were these things called talent rosters, with every talent 118 00:07:25.959 --> 00:07:28.879 and developmental and the main roster all kind of condensed 119 00:07:28.920 --> 00:07:34.399 onto one page. The top of every year. We would 120 00:07:34.519 --> 00:07:38.279 pick three and go all right, these three people we're 121 00:07:38.319 --> 00:07:41.079 gonna get over and they're going to become stars. 122 00:07:43.040 --> 00:07:45.360 And look at les unrelegated power. 123 00:07:46.680 --> 00:07:49.000 Certain people like brock Lesnar. You just look at them 124 00:07:49.040 --> 00:07:50.480 and you go, okay, well that's one. 125 00:07:52.480 --> 00:07:54.680 This is a highly trained assassin. 126 00:07:55.879 --> 00:07:58.920 Once you see brock Lesnar, you know exactly who he is. 127 00:07:59.399 --> 00:08:03.360 He's an ask let us stand, I don't know. 128 00:08:03.439 --> 00:08:06.399 There's another human being online. But that was a kid 129 00:08:06.519 --> 00:08:08.160 that move on Recushi. 130 00:08:09.199 --> 00:08:12.519 It was like this model that you'd never seen before. 131 00:08:13.120 --> 00:08:14.800 Sup the hell did he call from? 132 00:08:15.399 --> 00:08:18.120 Brock was just like very intimidating to wrestle against, because 133 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:19.519 you know, this is a guy that is real. 134 00:08:21.480 --> 00:08:22.800 If he wanted to, he could kill you. 135 00:08:25.480 --> 00:08:30.720 Let them stand next to block lessler, you can't do 136 00:08:31.879 --> 00:08:34.919 how anything you pa Well please. 137 00:08:36.159 --> 00:08:39.440 Paul was the perfect mouthpiece for Brock because here's a 138 00:08:39.480 --> 00:08:42.679 big guy that could go out do all of Paul's bidding, 139 00:08:43.120 --> 00:08:45.720 and Paul can flap his gums and do what Paul 140 00:08:45.799 --> 00:08:46.320 does best. 141 00:08:48.600 --> 00:08:52.320 It was a natural fit to take the credibility that 142 00:08:52.519 --> 00:08:58.639 I had and parlaying that onto whom I legitimately believed 143 00:08:58.759 --> 00:09:02.240 in my heart and my school. Was the next big 144 00:09:02.440 --> 00:09:05.519 thing in this industry, drock lest. 145 00:09:05.879 --> 00:09:14.879 The detrockable rock Lester de perthes too pain rock. 146 00:09:15.399 --> 00:09:18.360 Lesner, Ladies and gentlemen, But. 147 00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:26.759 That thing, rock Lesner, you are the next big thing 148 00:09:27.240 --> 00:09:31.639 than fornight, The next big thing will ride. 149 00:09:34.960 --> 00:09:36.960 And we are ready to have buddies until the crown 150 00:09:37.039 --> 00:09:38.039 the two thousand. 151 00:09:37.759 --> 00:09:41.559 And two King of the Ring and vandamn catlighte. 152 00:09:41.279 --> 00:09:41.919 Up on the top. 153 00:09:42.399 --> 00:09:44.600 Oh my god, less A just he just. 154 00:09:44.679 --> 00:09:49.399 Comment them into their holy and fine las are comment 155 00:09:49.559 --> 00:09:52.759 dem into their and it's over less of the tag 156 00:09:52.840 --> 00:09:56.120 of the Rings, and this rookie now has earned a 157 00:09:56.240 --> 00:09:59.360 man of them shot at the undistooted title. 158 00:09:59.279 --> 00:10:00.320 That Sommer's. 159 00:10:03.080 --> 00:10:05.960 Normally. Of course, over time you kind of move your 160 00:10:05.960 --> 00:10:08.679 way up the ranks. Brock got thrown into the fire 161 00:10:08.919 --> 00:10:09.399 right away. 162 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:13.639 The business in itself thrives on new, So when you 163 00:10:13.720 --> 00:10:16.159 have someone like Brock coming onto the scene, it's a 164 00:10:16.240 --> 00:10:19.200 godsend certainly behind the scenes, and it's from the audience 165 00:10:19.240 --> 00:10:22.159 perspective too. They're yearning for new more than anybody. 166 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:26.879 In just three months, the rookie had already earned a 167 00:10:26.960 --> 00:10:33.080 shot at the WWE Championship at SummerSlam, but classic Lessner, 168 00:10:33.519 --> 00:10:34.320 he didn't feel. 169 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:36.000 Like waiting that long for the spotlight. 170 00:10:38.080 --> 00:10:39.759 Why do we want to let Tagger as this man? 171 00:10:40.279 --> 00:10:41.279 There's no reason for this. 172 00:10:43.320 --> 00:10:45.639 Rock think about this Rock. 173 00:10:52.360 --> 00:10:57.919 Paul Cogan versus Brock Lessner in August two thousand and 174 00:10:58.000 --> 00:11:03.840 two on SmackDown is an opportunity for Brock Lesnar to 175 00:11:03.960 --> 00:11:08.440 be minted a long term main AFEC. 176 00:11:10.480 --> 00:11:14.039 This is the biggest match of rock Lester's career. 177 00:11:16.320 --> 00:11:17.799 He's built to go. He's an analog. 178 00:11:17.840 --> 00:11:19.840 And when you see those traps coming up, you know, 179 00:11:20.080 --> 00:11:22.559 there sticking out of his neck, and you see his 180 00:11:22.639 --> 00:11:24.600 eyes roll back in his head like a shark when 181 00:11:24.600 --> 00:11:25.279 he's coming at you. 182 00:11:29.320 --> 00:11:30.080 It's a gut chuck. 183 00:11:36.120 --> 00:11:36.840 And now it's the. 184 00:11:36.960 --> 00:11:39.039 Strength of the next big thing. 185 00:11:39.440 --> 00:11:43.039 And look at the cockiness, the arrogance in this kid. 186 00:11:44.519 --> 00:11:49.480 The mats oh no. 187 00:11:51.120 --> 00:11:55.840 Plants, Hogan, talk about your roofless aggression, Paul, Heaven's bringing 188 00:11:55.879 --> 00:11:58.519 that out of rock West Hollywood. 189 00:11:58.559 --> 00:12:02.240 Hultkogan is hurting. He'll bolt strictly from the mouth of Hogan. 190 00:12:02.360 --> 00:12:04.159 Houlgus busted up on the inside. 191 00:12:04.559 --> 00:12:07.360 He's getting the light squeezed out of him. It's over. 192 00:12:07.919 --> 00:12:11.559 This monster has squeezed the life out of Hull Hogan. 193 00:12:12.559 --> 00:12:15.799 Any fan watching WWE in two thousand and two thought 194 00:12:16.000 --> 00:12:17.759 brock Lesner was the next big. 195 00:12:17.720 --> 00:12:23.919 Thing, rubbing the blood of Hogan like a badge of 196 00:12:24.120 --> 00:12:25.879 honor across his chest. 197 00:12:27.080 --> 00:12:31.120 After the match with Hulk Hogan, everyone knew brock Lesner 198 00:12:31.840 --> 00:12:32.919 was the next big thing. 199 00:12:35.320 --> 00:12:39.279 Brock Lesner, believe me, the legendary Hollywood Hulk Hogan a 200 00:12:39.440 --> 00:12:42.519 bloody fest, a shell of himself in the middle of 201 00:12:42.600 --> 00:12:42.919 the Ring. 202 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:54.480 I remember a lot of consternation going back and forth 203 00:12:54.559 --> 00:12:58.759 in the production meeting in terms of whether this guy 204 00:12:59.120 --> 00:12:59.679 was ready. 205 00:13:01.399 --> 00:13:09.399 The question became if not, now, when and why not? 206 00:13:09.600 --> 00:13:09.759 Now? 207 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:15.200 You're right, he may not be ready, But if it's 208 00:13:15.240 --> 00:13:17.720 not him, who's it going to be? And there wasn't 209 00:13:17.759 --> 00:13:22.720 anybody else ready to step into that role. We needed new, 210 00:13:22.879 --> 00:13:28.200 We need it fresh, and he was new, but he 211 00:13:28.320 --> 00:13:28.759 was fresh. 212 00:13:31.159 --> 00:13:33.799 I knew Brock from seeing him around, but until I 213 00:13:33.879 --> 00:13:36.600 saw the build up for his match with The Rock 214 00:13:37.360 --> 00:13:40.000 at SummerSlam two thousand and two, I don't think I 215 00:13:40.159 --> 00:13:43.759 realized how big this guy could be or how much 216 00:13:43.919 --> 00:13:46.000 the momentum it shifted to his side. 217 00:13:46.679 --> 00:13:52.639 Just like Hogan's career is now over, the same thing 218 00:13:53.159 --> 00:13:56.759 will happen to The Rock this Sunday? 219 00:13:57.279 --> 00:13:58.879 What SummerSlam? 220 00:14:04.919 --> 00:14:08.480 When there's potential to be built upon, when you know what, 221 00:14:08.519 --> 00:14:09.840 you know it, when you see it, you see it, 222 00:14:09.919 --> 00:14:12.240 and I think everybody from Vince to The Rock saw it. 223 00:14:13.879 --> 00:14:19.879 The Rock was a huge proponent of let'school with Kid. 224 00:14:22.080 --> 00:14:24.639 We looked at Brock for the future. 225 00:14:25.279 --> 00:14:27.960 This is a guy that could be a champion that 226 00:14:28.080 --> 00:14:31.600 every one, no matter where you were, would believe. 227 00:14:35.240 --> 00:14:38.440 It's a hot August side of the Northeast, and it's 228 00:14:38.480 --> 00:14:41.200 scorched here and thinned that. I thought platheum. 229 00:14:41.679 --> 00:14:46.440 As we get set perphaps, some most did pestipated Summer 230 00:14:46.600 --> 00:14:52.399 Slam in history wheel the Rock continue his reign as champion, 231 00:14:52.960 --> 00:14:56.960 or will two thousand and two be the Summer of Rock? 232 00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:19.879 The following contest is schedule for one ball, and it 233 00:15:20.080 --> 00:15:25.519 is for the WWE of this student's championship and challenging 234 00:15:25.639 --> 00:15:27.519 the challenge her being accompanied by. 235 00:15:27.480 --> 00:15:31.919 A mating Pall Hayman from Minneapolis, Minnesota Wing and at 236 00:15:31.960 --> 00:15:32.639 two hundred and. 237 00:15:32.799 --> 00:15:34.039 Ninety five pounds. 238 00:15:34.559 --> 00:15:39.320 The next big thing Rock cis, sir, the. 239 00:15:39.519 --> 00:15:40.919 Time mccork is done. 240 00:15:41.279 --> 00:15:42.720 This has chicken time. 241 00:15:43.240 --> 00:15:46.159 Lestan knows that and so does the Rock. And it's 242 00:15:46.240 --> 00:15:47.279 no time right now. 243 00:15:48.440 --> 00:15:51.879 Well, the next big thing become the big thing tonight. 244 00:15:53.960 --> 00:15:57.440 This is. 245 00:16:00.840 --> 00:16:01.919 Miami, Laura. 246 00:16:02.200 --> 00:16:05.360 Why are two and seventy five pounds? 247 00:16:06.159 --> 00:16:08.480 Is the w w U? 248 00:16:08.679 --> 00:16:10.559 The Sudici. 249 00:16:12.200 --> 00:16:17.960 Whoa who guys died Little times fall pushing the right 250 00:16:18.399 --> 00:16:21.960 Here we go the Rock to Lighty. 251 00:16:21.919 --> 00:16:25.799 With the title of Kelly. 252 00:16:29.200 --> 00:16:34.120 The crowd kind of shifted in the rocks favor, which 253 00:16:34.279 --> 00:16:38.080 was really startling because the Rock was so incredibly popular. 254 00:16:48.279 --> 00:16:50.559 Clearly there was a seismic change. 255 00:16:52.080 --> 00:16:57.840 Luster, Spy Bluster and Herrick tims the fans into this match. 256 00:16:57.960 --> 00:16:59.840 Every single step of the way. 257 00:17:00.440 --> 00:17:00.519 O. 258 00:17:02.240 --> 00:17:03.879 What ahead, what ahead? 259 00:17:04.839 --> 00:17:07.240 Look out, It's run on the rock bottom buck dum 260 00:17:07.400 --> 00:17:09.640 Pad Lester didn't have a mother. 261 00:17:10.480 --> 00:17:11.079 And look at. 262 00:17:12.680 --> 00:17:15.920 A time to the rock the tuner Rod. 263 00:17:16.039 --> 00:17:21.279 I'm gonna Prester have the fit of the Rock rock Cluster. 264 00:17:21.240 --> 00:17:22.480 His champion. 265 00:17:27.359 --> 00:17:34.640 Of the student tippr Oh next big Thing Rockstener five 266 00:17:34.759 --> 00:17:38.680 from rock Leicester has taken out the Rock. 267 00:17:39.359 --> 00:17:41.480 Rock Lester has become. 268 00:17:41.519 --> 00:17:45.759 The youngest Chippion in w W history. 269 00:17:47.279 --> 00:17:51.440 Who in the hell will be able to stop the 270 00:17:51.680 --> 00:17:54.839 next big thing fall the look rock. 271 00:17:54.759 --> 00:17:58.480 Lester has flim them out in just five short months. 272 00:17:58.960 --> 00:18:07.079 His monsters a top of the World Rockburst, the two 273 00:18:07.119 --> 00:18:09.079 thousand and two King of the Ring winner, now the 274 00:18:09.279 --> 00:18:11.119 WWE Undispeedar Champion. 275 00:18:11.240 --> 00:18:13.480 Is there anything stopping brock Lesnar. 276 00:18:13.519 --> 00:18:14.039 I don't believe. 277 00:18:14.079 --> 00:18:15.960 So nothing's ever held me back and from now on 278 00:18:16.519 --> 00:18:19.039 it's me and everybody. I'm just looking down at you 279 00:18:19.559 --> 00:18:21.119 and it's harder to fight to the top than it 280 00:18:21.279 --> 00:18:23.640 is to fight and beat him down. I'm the number 281 00:18:23.680 --> 00:18:25.759 one man to be around here for a long time. 282 00:18:30.359 --> 00:18:33.799 SummerSlam was a turning point for the Rock, whose full 283 00:18:33.880 --> 00:18:37.759 time focus shifted to his budding Hollywood career. So with 284 00:18:37.920 --> 00:18:41.039 the Great One on his way to Tinseltown, brock Lesner 285 00:18:41.200 --> 00:18:45.039 was suddenly the top dog in WWE, a shock to 286 00:18:45.160 --> 00:18:47.079 everyone except Brock. 287 00:18:48.279 --> 00:18:53.359 You're looking at Thewe's animalistic future. 288 00:18:54.279 --> 00:18:57.559 Brock's meteoric rise to the top was embraced by the 289 00:18:57.759 --> 00:19:00.799 WWE universe, but outside the. 290 00:19:00.839 --> 00:19:03.799 Ring, Brock really didn't care much for the constant attention. 291 00:19:04.920 --> 00:19:10.920 Brock was still young, gone from OVW, and now he's 292 00:19:11.599 --> 00:19:13.720 in the big leagues and he's a champion. 293 00:19:14.880 --> 00:19:19.160 It was a lot, very very quickly. I don't know 294 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:21.680 if Brock appreciated the enormity of it all. 295 00:19:21.720 --> 00:19:24.480 I think that Brock at the time was looking at 296 00:19:24.559 --> 00:19:28.599 the business as a business, and I'm gonna be a 297 00:19:28.680 --> 00:19:30.559 businessman about it. I'm gonna go out and do what 298 00:19:30.640 --> 00:19:32.079 I have to do when I have to do it, 299 00:19:32.480 --> 00:19:33.319 and I'm gonna go home. 300 00:19:36.839 --> 00:19:41.240 I spent many hours out there. I'm the tractor and 301 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:45.799 chasing cattle around too, lots of hard work. 302 00:19:48.079 --> 00:19:50.680 I don't know many people know brock Lessner, the person 303 00:19:51.240 --> 00:19:54.319 Brock's not like sitting down and having a chat with 304 00:19:54.440 --> 00:19:57.319 you and talking about the latest movie or TV show. 305 00:19:57.400 --> 00:19:58.319 Brock's a private person. 306 00:19:58.359 --> 00:19:59.039 Everyone knows that. 307 00:20:01.079 --> 00:20:02.880 I think he's fine to keep his walls up and 308 00:20:03.000 --> 00:20:03.920 keep everybody away. 309 00:20:04.720 --> 00:20:04.880 You know. 310 00:20:05.000 --> 00:20:07.000 I think there's a part of him that it likes 311 00:20:07.039 --> 00:20:09.240 to be intimidating to people, you know. And I think 312 00:20:09.319 --> 00:20:11.559 maybe because he just doesn't want people getting close to him. 313 00:20:13.680 --> 00:20:17.240 Brock's a very private person to a certain extent. He 314 00:20:17.319 --> 00:20:18.079 doesn't like people. 315 00:20:20.160 --> 00:20:23.119 Not a lot of bs and Brock. You wind him up, 316 00:20:23.640 --> 00:20:28.079 and Brock goes and he looks at wrestlings. This is 317 00:20:28.200 --> 00:20:32.240 how I'm gonna be able to afford the life I 318 00:20:32.359 --> 00:20:32.759 want to have. 319 00:20:38.359 --> 00:20:42.680 Despite brocks matter of fact and meanor, he continued to 320 00:20:42.720 --> 00:20:46.160 put on an awesome display of power and letticism and 321 00:20:46.319 --> 00:20:50.519 complete domination in the world. No other rookie can ever 322 00:20:50.680 --> 00:20:54.920 dominated the WWE quite White rock Lessing, Yeah. 323 00:21:00.119 --> 00:21:06.960 Hell hit a sail versus the Undertaker. Fine to the Undertaker. 324 00:21:07.599 --> 00:21:13.880 Rock Lester has defeated the Undertaker at the Undertaker's own game. 325 00:21:16.920 --> 00:21:22.559 By god away the way that five Lester has at 326 00:21:22.759 --> 00:21:29.359 five five hundred pounds, and here cuts the new riff 327 00:21:29.440 --> 00:21:34.000 away the right, ri Ro the Tanger. Wait a minute, 328 00:21:35.640 --> 00:21:38.200 Paul Hayman is shut up the rock Lefter. 329 00:21:39.920 --> 00:21:44.000 At Survivor Series, Lesner's historic run would finally hit an 330 00:21:44.079 --> 00:21:50.440 insurmountable obstacle. His mentor and manager Paul Hayman turned against Rock. 331 00:21:50.640 --> 00:21:52.400 Helping Big Show take the title. 332 00:21:54.960 --> 00:21:58.720 With Paul Hayman no longer by his side, Lesner still 333 00:21:58.839 --> 00:22:06.000 proved to be a force to be reckoned it. Lesner 334 00:22:06.119 --> 00:22:09.000 added to a sensational rookie season by winning the two 335 00:22:09.079 --> 00:22:10.880 thousand and three Royal Rumble. 336 00:22:11.319 --> 00:22:14.839 Now I ask Brawn, Kladra has a limited the underpaper 337 00:22:15.279 --> 00:22:17.200 krag Klaser has won the Rambo. 338 00:22:18.000 --> 00:22:21.240 Earning a shot at the title. At WrestleMania nineteen. 339 00:22:22.160 --> 00:22:26.440 There comes up Pain straight to the main event that Russellmania. 340 00:22:30.640 --> 00:22:35.319 Pretty impressive year for Brock Lesner, and so then it's 341 00:22:35.400 --> 00:22:39.160 the pressure of how do you top that and how 342 00:22:39.240 --> 00:22:42.799 do you keep that momentum going and make it even better. 343 00:22:44.599 --> 00:22:48.160 I knew that when Brock got up here to the WWE, 344 00:22:48.559 --> 00:22:50.960 it was going to be about him and me because 345 00:22:51.000 --> 00:22:54.440 we came from the same sport. N c WA champion 346 00:22:54.599 --> 00:22:58.240 Arson Olympic gold medalists, the most Antiicentvega batch of the world. 347 00:22:58.799 --> 00:23:01.960 The two where they went from knowing nothing and in 348 00:23:02.319 --> 00:23:05.079 the years two times where main event stars. 349 00:23:05.319 --> 00:23:08.920 Card Angel is the best pure athlete in the history 350 00:23:09.279 --> 00:23:10.599 of sports entertainment. 351 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:14.279 You just don't see that, especially twice in a generation. 352 00:23:14.559 --> 00:23:17.880 The two greatest athletes, the greatest that ww ring. 353 00:23:18.599 --> 00:23:20.880 We'll fax each other for the ultimate prize. 354 00:23:22.160 --> 00:23:26.319 The two most accomplished amateur athletes in WWE history were 355 00:23:26.359 --> 00:23:29.880 set to collide in an epic battle on the grand stage, 356 00:23:30.799 --> 00:23:33.839 and it seemed destined to set the standard for years 357 00:23:33.880 --> 00:23:34.200 to come. 358 00:23:40.359 --> 00:23:46.440 We were excited, we were main eventing. Everything was aligned 359 00:23:46.559 --> 00:23:48.079 for us to have the match of the night. 360 00:23:57.640 --> 00:24:01.640 Russell Maania turns to the double wraight title. 361 00:24:02.839 --> 00:24:07.359 Rock Lesnar main eventing WrestleMania, Mince brock Lesnar as a 362 00:24:07.359 --> 00:24:10.799 WrestleMania main eventor, and now we can plan the next 363 00:24:10.880 --> 00:24:13.319 ten WrestleManias around brock Lesnar. 364 00:24:20.279 --> 00:24:20.880 Wednestake. 365 00:24:21.200 --> 00:24:23.359 When Daddy WrestleMania. 366 00:24:27.839 --> 00:24:31.359 To blame, I brought up the bronc and week prior 367 00:24:31.880 --> 00:24:33.440 and said, hey, it'd be cool if you hit your 368 00:24:33.480 --> 00:24:37.160 old finish that he used to do in OVW is 369 00:24:37.279 --> 00:24:41.880 shooting star press. What is brock doing seeing on the 370 00:24:42.000 --> 00:24:45.359 top row A three hundred pound man doing that shooting 371 00:24:45.400 --> 00:24:48.400 star Press. People are gonna remember that forever. 372 00:24:49.319 --> 00:24:51.839 If you're ever gonna do it. The main event at 373 00:24:51.880 --> 00:24:54.960 WrestleMania would be the time. 374 00:25:00.519 --> 00:25:13.400 Listen to the shooting start, plus watching it with everyone 375 00:25:13.519 --> 00:25:15.160 backstage did oh my god. 376 00:25:18.079 --> 00:25:19.640 It was horrified. 377 00:25:20.000 --> 00:25:24.480 We didn't know if Brock had broken his neck and 378 00:25:24.880 --> 00:25:30.960 wondering this Brock okay and get a little bit of movement, 379 00:25:33.039 --> 00:25:34.960 and then finally they took it home. 380 00:26:15.920 --> 00:26:21.200 Shooting Star Press was a classic example of Brock could 381 00:26:21.240 --> 00:26:26.039 be given bad advice, and that bad advice almost costs 382 00:26:26.079 --> 00:26:27.160 Brock his entire career. 383 00:26:47.759 --> 00:26:50.359 Guys were clear, please clear. 384 00:26:50.240 --> 00:26:56.440 This hole a Fortunately, it looked a lot worse than 385 00:26:56.519 --> 00:27:00.480 it could have been. Lesnar escaped with just minor injuries 386 00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:11.720 and now champion once again. The demands on Brock's time 387 00:27:12.359 --> 00:27:13.240 would weigh heavily. 388 00:27:14.799 --> 00:27:18.880 There's not an off switch when you're on top of wb. 389 00:27:20.680 --> 00:27:23.880 Brock came to us with his concerns, and Brock expressed 390 00:27:24.480 --> 00:27:28.279 that won the lightnings load and if Brock could have 391 00:27:28.519 --> 00:27:30.240 done once a month, and I know he would have, 392 00:27:31.119 --> 00:27:35.160 but that wasn't the business at the time, and you 393 00:27:35.200 --> 00:27:39.119 know you'd get a grumpy Brock some days, and you 394 00:27:39.599 --> 00:27:43.480 attribute that to he's young's first time, he's doing a 395 00:27:43.559 --> 00:27:46.480 lot of this, and you'll get used to it, kid, 396 00:27:46.960 --> 00:27:48.480 you know, come on, you'll get used to it. 397 00:27:49.160 --> 00:27:51.519 And for some people that's just they don't want to 398 00:27:51.559 --> 00:27:52.279 get used to it. 399 00:27:54.319 --> 00:27:58.000 The superstar part of being a WW superstar obviously entails 400 00:27:58.039 --> 00:28:00.720 a lot, and you know, I think after a while 401 00:28:01.279 --> 00:28:03.240