Early life of Brock Lesnar
Brock Edward Lesnar was brought into the world in Webster, South Dakota, on July 12, 1977, the child of Stephanie and Richard Lesnar. He experienced childhood with his folks’ dairy ranch in Webster. He is of German drop, and has two more established siblings named Troy and Chad and a more youthful sister named Brandi. At 17 years old, he enlisted in the Army National Guard and was alloted to an office work after his red-green visual weakness was considered risky to his longing to work with explosives. He was released subsequent to bombing a PC composing test and later worked for a development organization.
World Wrestling Federation/Entertainment
Ohio Valley Wrestling (2000–2002)
In 2000, Brock Lesnar endorsed with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) and was a shipped off its formative area Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), where he initially met future companion and chief Paul Heyman. OVW booker Jim Cornette matched Brock Lesnar with his previous school flat mate Shelton Benjamin. They were known as The Minnesota Stretching Crew with and won the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship on three separate events. Brock Lesnar wrestled a few dim matches in 2001 and 2002 preceding being called up to the WWF’s fundamental program
The Next Big Thing (2002–2003)
Brock Lesnar appeared on WWF TV on the March 18, 2002, episode of Raw as a heel, going after Al Snow, Maven and Spike Dudley during their WWF Hardcore Championship match, while likewise being joined by Paul Heyman, who was seen carefully guiding Brock Lesnar. Whenever the brand augmentation was presented in the WWF, Brock Lesnar was drafted to the Raw brand. Afterward, Heyman was affirmed to be Brock Lesnar’s representative and gave Brock Lesnar the moniker “The Next Big Thing”. Brock Lesnar’s most memorable quarrel was with The Hardy Boyz. He crushed Jeff Hardy by knockout after Hardy didn’t answer arbitrator Theodore Long at Backlash on April 21, his most memorable authority broadcast match. The following night on Raw, Brock Lesnar went head to head against Jeff’s sibling, Matt Hardy, and crushed him in a similar style. Brock Lesnar and Shawn Stasiak lost to The Hardy Boyz at Insurrextion on May 4 after Stasiak was stuck, however Brock Lesnar went after every one of the members after the match. At Judgment Day on May 19, Brock Lesnar and Heyman crushed The Hardy Boyz. This was additionally the main compensation per-view held after the WWF was renamed to World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE).
In June 2002, Brock Lesnar won the 2002 King of the Ring competition, overcoming Bubba Ray Dudley in the first round, Booker T in the quarter-finals, Test in the semi-finals and Rob Van Dam in the finals, acquiring him a shot at the WWE Undisputed Championship at SummerSlam. At Vengeance on July 21, Brock Lesnar lost to Van Dam in a WWE Intercontinental Championship match by preclusion. On July 22, Brock Lesnar joined the SmackDown! brand. After a speedy quarrel with Hollywood Hulk Hogan in August 2002, Brock Lesnar crushed The Rock at SummerSlam on August 25 to turn into the new WWE Undisputed Champion and most youthful WWE Champion at age 25. He additionally turned into the second quickest proficient grappler to come out on top for the WWE Championship since his presentation (126 days) behind just Ric Flair (113 days). At that point, the WWE Undisputed Championship was being guarded on the two brands, so Raw General Manager Eric Bischoff anticipated that Brock Lesnar should return on Raw the next night. SmackDown! Head supervisor Stephanie McMahon pronounced that Brock Lesnar was simply expected to protect the title on SmackDown! shows and occasions, provoking Bischoff to lay out another title for the Raw brand (the World Heavyweight Championship); the WWE Undisputed Championship was then renamed the WWE Championship.
Brock Lesnar’s quick ascent to the highest point of WWE in 2002 prompted a quarrel with The Undertaker, which included a match at Unforgiven on September 22. The match finished in a twofold preclusion, with Brock Lesnar held the title. Brock Lesnar confronted The Undertaker again at No Mercy, this time in a Hell in a Cell match. Paving the way to the match, in the storyline, Brock Lesnar broke The Undertaker’s hand with a propane tank. Regardless of Heyman asking McMahon not to allow The Undertaker to involve his cast as a weapon, the solicitation was denied and the match happened according to plan. At No Mercy, Brock Lesnar crushed The Undertaker in the Hell in a Cell match to hold the title, in this way finishing their quarrel. He held the WWE Championship in an impairment coordinate with Heyman against Edge at Rebellion on October 26.
Brock Lesnar’s next adversary was Big Show and Heyman was persuaded beyond what anybody that Brock Lesnar couldn’t win, attempting to convince him not to shield the title. Brock Lesnar declined and protected the title against Big Show at Survivor Series on November 17. At Survivor Series, Heyman turned on Brock Lesnar, permitting Big Show to chokeslam him onto a steel seat and pin him to bring home the WWE Championship, bringing about Brock Lesnar’s first pinfall misfortune in WWE. This prompted Brock Lesnar turning face interestingly. Following Survivor Series, Heyman clarified that Brock Lesnar wouldn’t get a rematch, and had snuck an extraordinary proviso expressing so into his agreement. To acquire his retribution on Big Show and Heyman, Brock Lesnar meddled in Big Show’s most memorable title guard, which came against Kurt Angle the following month at Armageddon on December 15, where Brock Lesnar executed the F-5 on Big Show, which empowered Angle to come out on top for the WWE Championship. On the accompanying episode of SmackDown!, Angle presented Heyman as his supervisor and, notwithstanding encouraging Brock Lesnar a title shot before in the evening, announced that Brock Lesnar actually wouldn’t get it. Brock Lesnar’s contention with Heyman and Big Show continued, which finished in a match at the Royal Rumble in January 2003, with the victor being put into the Royal Rumble match later in the evening. At the Royal Rumble, he crushed Big Show and entered the Royal Rumble match as the #29 passage. He disposed of Matt Hardy and Team Angle (Charlie Haas and Brock Lesnar’s previous OVW partner Shelton Benjamin), who at that point, were tutored by Angle as a three-man stable. He disposed of The Undertaker last and won the Royal Rumble match, which promised him a WWE Championship match at WrestleMania XIX since he was a SmackDown! grappler. After the Royal Rumble, Brock Lesnar and Chris Benoit crushed Angle, Haas and Benjamin in a three-on-two debilitation match at No Way Out on February 23, regardless of Team Angle harming their accomplice, Edge, behind the stage before the match. At WrestleMania on March 30, Brock Lesnar crushed Angle to bring home his second WWE Championship; during the match, he messed up a falling star press (a move he had involved various times in OVW) and arrived on his head and neck, bringing about a blackout. This constrained Angle (who entered the coordinate with a messed up neck) and Brock Lesnar to ad lib the completion of the match.
