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“F**k It”: Amputee Turned WWE Star Risked His Life to Make Brock Lesnar Look Like a True Monster

Published 08/11/2022, 12:15 PM EDT

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The first WWE run of Brock Lesnar is a memorable one. He quickly rose up the ranks in the roster and cemented his name as the top star of the company.

Lesnar in his career has wrestled with various types of opponents in WWE. However, his most remembered opponent came in 2003. Moreover, he put himself through major brutality to put over a heel Lesnar.

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Zach Gowen is the only one-legged wrestler to ever step foot in a WWE ring appeared for an interview with Chris Van Vliet He shared his experience of feuding with Brock Lesnar and also told about the story behind the brutal chair shot he took from The Beast.

Gowen added, “So the chair shot happens and I pull the gig out and I poke and I twist, because that’s how I was taught to do it and nothing happens. There’s no, nothing so I’m like, ‘Oh Crap!’ I feel Brock Lesnar walking to me over to me to pick me up and now here comes the shot we need.” 

He added, “So I do it again, poke twist a little bit and I drag a little bit, thinking that it’ll do it. Again nothing. So Brock is literally picking me up at this point and I’m like ‘f**k it’. I just dig it in my head and (makes blading noise) went like that. What else I’m gonna do? I’m in that position and we need to get this color for the angle.”

WWE wanted to put over Lesnar as a heel. They announced a match against Gowen last minute. The former WWE star was feuding with Matt Hardy, but WWE at the last moment planned a match against Lesnar. He did a perfect job putting over The Conqueror as a destructive heel.

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Brock Lesnar once had a brawl in public

A few years ago, Brock Lesnar shared a story on ESPN’s Highly Questionable. A guy tried to bust him while ordering drinks at a function aka ‘Street Dance’ in the rural areas, as Lesnar described. The incident happened while buying drinks. A random guy tried to sneak attack him.

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The Beast added, “I just grabbed them from him, turned around, and walked away. In the meantime, the bartender had handed him his drinks, and he proceeded to bust me over the head with them. That was a long time ago…. and then things ended very quickly. It wasn’t me. The cops came, and then I left.”

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Lesnar started laughing and kept quiet after this. He didn’t want to reveal how he took the guy down. He might have punched him, hold him into a choke, or even slammed him to make him understand that he shouldn’t have messed with a WWE and UFC champion.

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Tushar Deogharkar is a WWE writer at EssentiallySports. Tushar has done his Master's in Tourism Management and is an ardent fan of pro wrestling. He follows WWE and AEW very closely and wants to learn how the promotions are run.
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Paras Pande