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Wrestling: Brock Lesnar

"Here comes the pain!"

Brock Lesnar, born 1977, is a pro-wrestler and former MMA Fighter (retiring in late 2011). Lesnar won the NCAA Amateur Wrestling Heavyweight Championship in 2002, before debuting with WWE in 2002. He left WWE in 2004, after winning three WWE Championships, to try out for American football. He played pre-season for the Minnesota Vikings, but was cut before the season proper began. He then returned to wrestling and went on to win the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in Japan. After moving to Mixed Martial Arts, Lesnar won the UFC World Heavyweight Title

in 2008 from Randy Couture, later losing it to Cain Velasquez in 2010. He served as a coach on The Ultimate Fighter opposite Junior Dos Santos.

Lesnar returned to the WWE on the April 2nd 2012 episode of Raw, when he came out and hit John Cena with the F-5.

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has a more extensive article on his life and career.

Tropes associated with Brock Lesnar include:

The Ace
And Starring: The April 30th 2012 show saw "WWE Raw Supershow starring Brock Lesnar". Then a week later Triple H showed up and put a stop to it.
Arch-Enemy: Kurt Angle in pro-wrestling, possibly Frank Mir in MMA.
Awesome McCoolname: It sounds so perfect for his image that it might be a shock to find he was born with it.
Bad Ass: Won his first WWE Title - from The Rock - five months after his WWE debut, won his IWGP Title in his first match for the company, won his UFC Title in his third UFC fight (and fourth MMA fight in general). Oh yes, he's a badass.
- Bad Ass Beard: The "mountain man" look he sported in the run up to his fight with Cain Velasquez.
- Badass Boast: "I Am The Next Big Thing!" Also doubles as his Red Baron.
- During the 2004 No Way Out intro he uttered this epic line:
Brock Lesnar: I've beaten leg ends, great ones, phenoms! You are no one!
- Handicapped Badass: Kept fighting in the UFC even when suffering from diverticulitis.
Blood Knight: Well, arguably anybody that competes in UFC has to be a bit of one, but he brought it into WWE with him as well.
"What makes me happy? ....Beating people up. That's what makes me happy."
Big "Shut Up!": His first line (Not counting a UK-exclusive PPV) on WWE television was to interrupt Paul Heyman mid-rant by screaming "SHUT UP PAUL!" at him.
Book Ends: Debuted in the WWE on March 18th 2002, the night after WrestleMania X8, and made his final appearance for the company at WrestleMania 20.
- And then he returned to the WWE in 2012, on the episode of Raw airing April 2nd & the night after WrestleMania 28, providing another book end.
Boring, but Practical: Brock's new Signature Move, the Kimura, would be more suited to the days of Bruno Sammartino and Bob Backlund (and probably has been used by one of them) and looks out of place beside flashier moves of today. However, it can cripple someone in real life.
Born Winner: See Badass.
Blond Guys Are Evil: In his heel runs.
The Brute: During his first heel run, with Paul Heyman as his manager and mouthpiece.
The Bus Came Back: Returned to WWE Raw, April 2nd 2012 and laid out Cena with an F5.
Charles Atlas Super Power: Particularly in his days in WWE, he seemed impossibly strong, even able to hoist the 500 pound Big Show around with ease. This is actually Truth in Television. As far back as Middle School Brock is noted to have been freakishly strong. Like many Strongman competitors, he grew up on a farm, and became accustomed to lifting heavy loads (such as young calves) and developed an iron-clad work ethic. It's best described by the man himself in a UFC Countdown video.
Brock Lesnar: (in response to how training for MMA differs from Professional Wrestling) I learned early on that I don't need to lift 500 or 600 pounds once. I need to be able to press 250 pounds as many times in a row as I need.
Combat Pragmatist: (read: wants to cause as much pain as possible, rules be damned.)
Commuting On A Bus: His current run in the WWE has been this.
Department of Redundancy Department: "This is a real feeling that you're feeling because I can feel it! I'm the reason you're feeling the way that you're feeling right now, John."
The Dragon: To Vince McMahon following his Face Heel Turn in 2003.
- John Laurinaitis tried to make him this, but it backfired.
Embarrassing Tattoo: His sword tattoo looks like a little too much like another type of sword...
Establishing Character Moment: Upon his first re-appearance on WWE, he makes a beeline straight for the ring and delivers an F5 to John Cena.
- Even further than that, his debut? Running into a hardcore match and pounding Al Snow, Maven Huffman, and Spike Dudley into the mat like they were dolls while hardly breaking a sweat. To further drive the point home, Maven was the Hardcore champion, and this was when the 24/7 rule (So long as a WWE official was present, the Hardcore title could be defended at any moment) was in effect.
Evil Plan: His main objective in Extreme Rules 2012 was to hurt John Cena. Which he did.
Eviler than Thou: John Laurinaitis tried to bring him in as The Dragon, but Lesnar turned the tables and bullied him into giving him whatever he wanted.
Farm Boy: In South Dakota.
Game Breaking Injury: His (ongoing) battle with diverticulitis has hindered his MMA career quite badly, leading to his retirement.
Groin Attack: Has no qualms about running up behind someone (say, John Cena for example) and kicking him right in the balls.
Hot Dad
Humiliation Conga: First he gets tackled by Goldberg at the 2004 No Way Out during his title defense against Eddie Guerrero. Then Guerrero performs a frog splash onto his injured body and pins him to become the WWE Champion. Then Goldberg defeats him in their grudge match at WrestleMania XX (which was, not incidentally, both men's last match in WWE) - and finally, just to twist in the knife, Stone Cold Steve Austin "stuns" both him and Goldberg to massive cheers from the crowd. Then he attempts to break into the NFL and fails, and then he attempts a return to the WWE but is turned away, and then he tries to wrestle in Japan but can't get out of his no-compete clause... It took awhile for Brock to get back on his feet.
Ironic Echo: Lesnar dominates his debut match with Frank Mir but gets caught via an inexperienced mistake and loses the match. Fast forward to 2012: it happens to him again in his return match against the now-veteran John Cena, destroying him for 20 minutes before running into a chain-wrapped fist.
It's Personal: He and Paul Heyman seem to be doing everything in their power to make his feud with Triple H this.
Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Can be a Jerk Jock at his worst, but is a cool guy if you don't diss him. He seems to have become this especially after hard fought win against Carwin and losing title to Velasquez.
Knight of Cerebus: During his 2012 WWE return.
Lightning Bruiser: Lesnar is known for both his extreme size and and surprising quickness in the UFC. Seanbaby wrote in this article): "Brock Lesnar is a human cheat-code. He is 300 pounds of muscle and judging by the way he darts around, I don't think mass and inertia were properly explained to him."
- And, of course, he was one in WWE first.
Likes Older Women / May-December Romance: His wife Rena (the former Sable) is 10 years his senior.
Minnesota Nice: Subverted, big time.
Muscles Are Meaningful
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: A lot of his matches against weaker opponents like Zach Gowen turn into this. But then he upped it to 11 when he did it in his return match to John Cena, putting on such a vicious beatdown that even the usual split-for-Cena crowd started to rally behind John towards the end of the match.
Only in It for the Money: Brock was always rather upfront about the fact that his true passion was foot ball and his real dream was to play for the NFL, but he went to the WWE because "That's where the money was." During his 2012 return, this was a major aspect of his character.
Phrase Catcher: Tazz liked to shout "Here comes the pain!" whenever Lesnar made his entrance (and was later the subtitle for the fifth SmackDown videogame).
Power Stable: "Team Lesnar" with The Big Show, Matt Morgan, Albert and Nathan Jones, all managed by Paul Heyman. He also runs Death Clutch Gym, MMA camp for heavyweight fighters.
Rated M for Manly: Especially in the WWE.
Real Life Writes the Plot: Essentially, his gimmick during his return tour has been... as an MMA fighter. He even seemed to trade in the F5 (which he had no problem doing, as he showed John Cena immediately) for the Boring, but Practical Kimura lock.
Rogues Gallery: In his initial WWE run he had constantly clashed with Kurt Angle, The Big Show, John Cena, Chris Benoit and The Undertaker.
Small Name, Big Ego: Well, more like Big Name BIGGER Ego, but this is pretty much his gimmick since his 2012 WWE return i.e. the inherent belief that he should be waited upon hand and foot and have everything handed to him right when he asks.
Smug Super
Suplex Finisher
Take That, Audience!: After his underwhelming WrestleMania XX match with Goldberg, Brock gave the MSG crowd a one finger salute for the X-Pac Heat^note they gave him (and Goldberg) earlier.
Training from Hell
Underwear of Power: In his initial WWE run. Since his WWE return, he is seen wearing an MMA gear (Shorts and Fingerless Gloves) with boots during his first match.
Weaksauce Weakness: Brock doesn't react well to getting punched in the face. Note that he is never knocked down or knocked out (he took a freakish amount of punishment in his fight with Shane Carwin), but when someone gets through and lands a hit he tends to backpedal away.
- Came into play in his return match at Extreme Rules 2012 when Cena manage to overcome a then-Curb-Stomp Battle with a shot to the face of a leaping Lesnar with his chain wrapped around his fist, which stunned Lesnar enough to allow Cena to get the AA on the steel steps for the improbable, even by his standards, win.
- Came up again during his match with Triple H at Summer Slam. While not as one sided as his match with Cena, he was dominating for most of the brawl until Triple H managed to get a hard strike on his stomach^note at which point Brock promptly doubled over in pain and was staggering for the rest of the match.
Worked Shoot: His confrontation with The Undertaker at UFC 116. It never lead anywhere, as there is simply no way Dana White would let Lesnar appear for any other fighting or pseudo-fighting organization while he's still under UFC contract.
Wrestling Monster: Less out there than most of them but there isn't really any other way to justify the way he completely no sold weapons used by guys like Hardy Boys during his rampages.
You Are Already Dead: In his fight against Alistair Overeem he provided a great example of this reaction. He got hit with a thunderous kick to the liver, took two steps back and then doubled over in pain, unable to continue. To anyone unfamiliar with the physiology, this might have looked suspicious, but fighters who have taken clean shots to the liver say that it does take a second or two for the pain and shock to register. At that point, according to former UFC fighter Scott Smith, "You feel like you're gonna die."