Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns are gearing up for what WWE is labeling
as one of the biggest Wrestlemania main events of all time
So today we’ll be taking a look at the history between Roman Reigns
and Brock Lesnar, some fun facts about the two of them, some similarities, some differences,
and just get into a bit of everything regarding these two WWE superstars
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Number 10: how Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar first met
The duo of Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman first came onto the WWE scene
in 2002 and had been around ever since for twenty years now
Brock Lesnar recently appeared on The Michael Kay
show to tell the story on the first time he ever met and spoke with Paul Heyman
Brock had this to say during that interview, quote:
“I got called up on the road from Ohio Valley Wrestling. I was a prospect in developmental
down there and they brought me up to live events and I think Paul (Heyman) had something to do
with the creative team. Paul (had) just seen me sitting, taking it all in the stands one day,
and he came up and introduced himself and we just sat down and had a connection” End Quote
And ever since then Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman have been close
friends and partners both on-screen and off-screen
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Number 9: Paul Heyman’s deep connection with Roman Reigns’ family
Roman Reigns isn’t the first member of his family to be managed by Paul Heyman
Like Heyman once alluded to on Smackdown when we was talking about where his loyalty stands,
Heyman has been connected with Roman’s family for over 40 years
Heyman was managing Roman’s other family members way back in the early 1980’s
and obviously knew Roman Reigns pretty much since he was first born
So everyone looks at Brock Lesnar and Paul Heyman as being the longtime iconic duo
with the most history, but if you really dive into it this deep, you’ll see that in reality,
Roman Reigns has a case for having an even deeper connection and relationship with Paul Heyman
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Number 8: Vince McMahon booked The Undertaker versus Brock Lesnar at Wrestlemania 30
with the intention of Lesnar being fed to The Undertaker
Everyone knows that Brock Lesnar ended The Undertaker’s undefeated streak at
Wrestlemania 30, but that wasn’t the initial plan
Vince McMahon had every intention of The Undertaker improving his streak to 22
wins and zero losses, but as the match got closer, things started to change
While speaking with Inside The Ropes, Paul Heyman talked about the private
conversation he had with Brock Lesnar about the streak and had this to say:
“Brock was sitting there going, he’s sighing. Who am I going to have to work with now? Okay,
Vince, who am I working with at WrestleMania?’ And Vince looks at Brock in the eyes and says,
‘The Undertaker!’ And of course, in Vince’s eyes, it was… ‘You’re going to be fed,
you’re going to be the 0 in 22-0.’ And I will never forget, Brock and I walked out the door
and Brock had his own bus and we got into the bus, didn’t say a word to each other,
got to the bus and I put down my phone and said, ‘Well, what do you think? Taker, huh?’ He said,
he’s going to take root under WrestleMania and it’s the first time I ever heard the phrase,
Brock sat there, he’s just sitting, stirring, sitting at a table in his bus and Brock looks
up and he goes, ’21-1. I’m the one.’ And I went, ‘How do we make that happen?’ And Brock said,
‘That’s what we are going to do. We are going to conquer that streak at WrestleMania.'”
As everyone knows, Brock Lesnar did end up defeating The Undertaker
at Wrestlemania and putting an end to the streak after 22 years
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Number 7: Don’t forget about Roman Reigns versus The Undertaker
Brock Lesnar might have been the first WWE superstar to defeat The Undertaker
at Wrestlemania, but he surely wasn’t the last one to defeat him at Mania
Three years after his loss to Brock Lesnar, The Undertaker picked up his second
and last Wrestlemania loss to Roman Reigns at Wrestlemania 33
So that’s another massive accomplishment that Brock Lesnar and Roman Reigns both
share, they are the only two men to ever defeat The Undertaker at Wrestlemania
throughout his entire 30 year long WWE career
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Number 6: Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar both played football
Roman played football throughout his years in high school and even signed with CFL’s Edmonton Eskimos
Roman played for the entire season that year and even managed to start five games
But after the year was done, he retired from football to become a pro wrestler
and the rest of history
Brock Lesnar, on the other hand, actually made it to an NFL roster for summer camp
Shortly after leaving WWE after Wrestlemania 20, Brock was signed to the Minnesota Vikings
Brock last played football in high school, so it had been quite a while since he was
last on the field, but Brock stuck around on the team that preseason
He was even highly featured in a few Vikings preseason games,
but unfortunately didn’t make the final cut for the team
That was not a problem though because Brock Lesnar would then focus
on his MMA career after that, which of course led to him becoming UFC champion
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Number 5: Roman Reigns has been in a match with every single former Universal Champion
in history during this one single title reign
From Summer 2020 to current day: Roman Reigns has been in matches with Braun Strowman,
Bray Wyatt, Kevin Owens, Finn Balor, Goldberg, Seth Rollins, and Brock Lesnar…that list
of WWE superstars includes every single former Universal Champion in WWE history
Now Roman didn’t exactly score pinfall victories on every single name on that list, but he was at
least in a match with every former Universal Champion during this one single title reign
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Number 4: Brock Lesnar was a bit nervous coming into this current feud with Roman Reigns
Brock recently revealed that he felt a bit of uncertainty coming into this
feud with Roman Reigns because he knew he was going to be without Paul Heyman by his side
Brock and Heyman’s characters had a bit of conflict with each other in the early 2000s,
but ever since they reunited after Brock’s WWE return, Brock and Heyman had never been separated
So Brock revealed that working against Paul Heyman does hurt and feel strange,
but he also talked about how he’s making the most out of the opportunity to showcase this
new side of his character, which he described as just being himself
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Number 3: Brock Lesnar’s retirement
During his recent interviews, Brock also revealed that he considered himself
retired following his match with Drew McIntyre at Wrestlemania 36
But then WWE approached him with the Roman Reigns storyline and new deal, which he gladly agreed to
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Number 2: Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar are
absolutely no strangers to each other inside of the WWE ring
Brock and Roman have met one-on-one on five huge big occasions
They met at Wrestlemania 31, Wrestlemania 34, Greatest Royal Rumble,
Summerslam, Crown Jewel, and their sixth big meeting will of course be Wrestlemania 38
Brock and Roman have also been in multiple triple threat and
fatal four way matches with each other as well
So this is a feud that officially started at the main event of Wrestlemania 31
and now seven years later, they’re set to main event Wrestlemania once again for the third time
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Number 1: History Maker
Whoever wins the main event of Wrestlemania 38 will make history as the first ever WWE superstar
to unify the WWE championship and WWE Universal Championship
Sure, we’ve seen WWE world titles be unified in years past,
most recently in 2014, but no one has ever unified these specific WWE world titles
So regardless of who wins this match, they’re gonna be making a lot of history
and holding up two WWE world titles in the closing moments of a Wrestlemania main event,
it doesn’t get much bigger than that in WWE
a big career defining moment is coming up for either Brock Lesnar or Roman Reigns
Who’s your pick to win it all at Wrestlemania 38?
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