Professional Wrestling legend and WWE Hall of Famer The Undertaker who is a former seven times WWE World Champion recently revealed a conversation with the ten times WWE World Champion Brock Lesnar from 2004 where he expressed his desire to leave WWE.
The Undertaker and Brock Lesnar had an amazing history among each other. They had countless feuds against each other. Their first feud took place back in 2002 WWE was desperate to push Brock Lesnar as the next top star of the promotion. During that time literally every big wrestler of the Attitude Era pushed him. Taker was one of them.
The Undertaker Reveals A Conversation With Brock Lesnar From 2004
Their feud started after SummerSlam 2002 where Brock Lesnar defeated the Rock to become the youngest WWE Champion. The very next wrestler to promote Lesnar as the top star was Taker himself. The first match between the duo took place at The Unforgiven pay per view event. This match went to a double disqualification.
On the very next pay per view event, Lesnar defeated him inside Hell in a Cell. Another few took place between the duo on the very next year. It was also partially won by Lesnar. They had to wait for over a decade to have their next feud and the next one was really special for so many reasons. It was arguably one of the best and most shocking feuds in professional wrestling history.
The next feud between the duo was booked for WrestleMania XXX and their match at the said event is considered as one of the most shocking matches in WrestleMania history because in this match, Lesnar defeated the legendary undefeated streak of the Undertaker. There are fewer continued for a number of years, and this will always be remembered as each other’s arch nemesis.
The Undertaker who is a former seven times WWE World Champion recently spoke on the Geordle Podcast where he revealed a conversation with the ten times WWE World Champion Brock Lesnar from 2004 where he expressed his desire to leave WWE. He said;
“I really haven’t told this story very often. He [Brock Lesnar] was thinking about going to play pro football and I was like, ‘Brock,’ I was like, ‘Look, you gotta do what’s right for Brock, you know?’ Everyone’s gonna be pissed that you’re gonna leave.
“They’ve put all this money and this push behind you but, if you don’t go do this, you’re gonna look back one day with the what ifs,’ right? And I don’t know how much influence it had. He did end up leaving. He tried football, didn’t work. He ends up in the UFC.
“But I didn’t hold any grudge for — I always in the back of my mind felt like he would be back some day. You know, it’s just usually the way it works out. But I do know you can’t live with what ifs. It’ll eat you up, right? So, you know, I didn’t have a problem. I didn’t have the biggest problem as most people did with it.”
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