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Brock Lesnar is the definition of a prizefighter in WWE. While he's been criticized over the years for being the part-timer who takes up the big spot, the reality is that Brock Lesnar's situation is far different from the other part-timers.
For most part-timers and old legends, you might be lucky to see them wrestle once or twice a year. With Brock Lesnar, that's not the case. He wrestles 4-5 matches a year on TV and every single one holds significance.
He's had a long way to his journey to superstardom, but very few have had a meteoric rise the way he did between 2002-2004. His UFC stint further established Brock Lesnar as a Combat Sports Box Office Megastar and he took that star power to WWE in 2012 and has stayed with the company since.
However, there have been some matches of Brock Lesnar that can best be described as 'weird'. Here are a few of them:
#5. Brock Lesnar vs Goldberg - WrestleMania 20
Looking back at it now, this match was weird in a few ways. Perhaps the main reason for it was the crowd reaction throughout the match. Brock Lesnar vs Goldberg would have been a dream match at the time, but news broke out that Brock Lesnar was going to be leaving WWE after WrestleMania 20 to pursue an NFL career, while Goldberg opted not to renew his contract that ended at WrestleMania 20.
Knowing that both men were wrestling their last match for the company, the Madison Square Garden crowd made their displeasure known. What would have been a dream match turned out to be a stinker, with both men admitting that they put nothing into the match.
Watching two behemoths go at it in a disastrous contest with 'Stone Cold' Steve Austin as the Special Guest Referee made it weird to watch, but fans were happy at the end as The Texas Rattlesnake hit both men with a stunner to send them away.
Thankfully, the two would redeem themselves 13 years later at WrestleMania 33when they had a 5-minute instant classic. Despite Goldberg's age, the match played out perfectly and was the kind of battle that Brock Lesnar and the Universal Champion at the time Goldberg should have had in the first place.
#5. Brock Lesnar vs Randy Orton - Survivor Series 2016
Randy Orton had been out of action since October 2015 and it was announced more than a month before that he would be Brock Lesnar's SummerSlam 2015 opponent. Brock Lesnar was preparing for his UFC return and fight against Mark Hunt in the co-headliner of UFC 200.
It was a bit surprising that WWE decided to announce his SummerSlam match in advance, but it was a blockbuster bout since the two had faced off before, but only when Randy Orton was young. This time around, he was a 12-time World Champion and the story of the two was going back to their days together in the developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW).
As expected, it was the headliner of the show and the only Interbrand match on the card (the brand split had kicked in a month before). Brock Lesnar would go on to legitimately slice Randy Orton open with a series of elbows. The contest ended after Randy Orton's forehead was cut and he lay down on a pool of his own blood.
It was weird and shocking at the same time and what was even weirder was the fact that Chris Jericho was legitimately furious backstage, believing that Brock Lesnar went to business for himself.
It takes a lot to stand up to Brock Lesnar and the two almost got into an altercation before they were separated.
#4. Brock Lesnar vs Goldberg 2 - Survivor Series 2016
It's important to understand the context of this match. It had been over three years since Brock Lesnar was pinned - with Triple H being the last man to do so at WrestleMania 29. Brock Lesnar had lost matches before - via DQ, "passing out" against The Undertaker, the WrestleMania 31 main event, and Fastlane 2016's Triple Threat match. However, the common theme in all of them was that he was protected and not pinned.
He didn't hold any Championship in 2016, but he had defeated Dean Ambrose at WrestleMania 32 and sliced open Randy Orton at SummerSlam that year. After WWE 2K17 announced Goldberg as a pre-order bonus, it finally opened the door for the wrestling legend to return.
In SportsCenter, Goldberg teased "unfinished business" with Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman would cut a promo on RAW calling Goldberg out. Surely enough, he responded and returned one week later after 12-and-a-half years to RAW.
With the tagline 'Fantasy Warfare just got real', Survivor Series 2016 had its blockbuster headliner. It lasted all but 1 minute and 26 seconds as Brock Lesnar was squashed by Goldberg in a way that he never was before. It was weird to see Brock Lesnar lose the way he did, but it was a fantastic way to get the wrestling world talking and add hype to Goldberg's return run that culminated at WrestleMania 33.
#3. Brock Lesnar vs Seth Rollins - WrestleMania 35
After Roman Reigns was out indefinitely following the tragic announcement of his leukemia, WWE knew that they needed a new face to replace him. Seth Rollins was the go-to Superstar for that as he was already a well-established #2 babyface in WWE.
To coronate him, WWE knew that they had to get him through the 'final boss' - Brock Lesnar. 156 days into his second Universal Championship reign, Brock Lesnar would face the Royal Rumble winner Seth Rollins at WrestleMania 35.
Since it wasn't the main event, Paul Heyman furiously declared that Brock Lesnar wanted to finish his match first and "get out". A premeditated attack against Seth Rollins delayed the start of the match, but once the bell rang, it lasted just 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
Seth Rollins' so-called 'coronation' had him hit Brock Lesnar with a low blow before finishing him with a sequence of stomps. Since it was WrestleMania, fans expected a longer match. They eventually had a "proper" match at SummerSlam later that year, where Seth Rollins would defeat him clean in the main event.
At WrestleMania, however, it was a weird sight to watch Brock Lesnar lose the Universal title in less than three minutes.
#2. Brock Lesnar gets an unexpected accolade - Money in the Bank 2019
Brock Lesnar has never been the kind of superstar who 'needed' a Money in the Bank victory. He's never won any Championship apart from the WWE title and the Universal title, but he's simply been 'too big' for a "secondary" Championship.
At Money in the Bank 2019, Sami Zayn was supposed to be one among eight Superstars in the match. He was attacked earlier in the show and the match proceeded with just seven members. Mustafa Ali was on the verge of winning the briefcase, even being on the top rung of the ladder. However, Brock Lesnar's music unexpectedly hit and he would go and take out Ali and stand atop the ladder as Mr. Money in the Bank 2019.
This began the small but hilarious "Boombox Lesnar" phase and he would cash in after the main event of Extreme Rules 2019 to become a 3-time Universal Champion. It was ultimately to set up the SummerSlam 2019 main event against Seth Rollins, but while the entire Money in the Bank 2019 match wasn't weird, the finish alone made it one of Brock Lesnar's weirdest matches of his career.
#1. Brock Lesnar vs Kofi Kingston - SmackDown on FOX premiere 2019
This match was weird, not just for Brock Lesnar but the way WWE decided to end KofiMania. Kofi Kingston was one of the top Superstars of 2019 and his unexpected rise in popularity in February saw him emerge as the hottest superstar heading into WrestleMania 35 (along with Becky Lynch).
He secured a WWE Championship match and defeated Daniel Bryan to become the first-ever African-born WWE Champion. It was a glorious moment and he had a strong run as WWE Champion, going past opponents like Kevin Owens, Dolph Ziggler, Samoa Joe, and Randy Orton to establish himself as the 50th person to win the Champion in the WWE title lineage.
It's also important to note that until October 2019, Brock Lesnar hadn't wrestled a match on RAW or SmackDown since 2004. The anticipation of a Brock Lesnar match on free TV after 15 years added the hype, but the match ended in just about ten seconds as Kofi Kingston's reign as WWE Champion came to a screeching halt with one F5.
It was weird how WWE decided to end KofiMania and certainly ranks as Brock Lesnar's most bizarre World Championship victory.
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