10 Very Rare Brock Lesnar Matches You Have To See
Not every Brock Lesnar match was a major one...
It can be easy to forget that Brock Lesnar’s WWE career began a whopping 19 years ago. Granted there was the small matter of an 8-year hiatus sandwiched in the middle of it, but over the years he’s still managed to rack up more than 350 matches.
And as such, it’s only natural that a few of those have managed to slip under the radar.
Many of you may have already seen some of the footage that the WWE has been able to salvage; their YouTube channel features a 2001 match from OWV between Lesnar and Batista, as well as a clip from a tag team match in which he teamed with Shelton Benjamin to face John Cena and, of all people, Rico.
But what about the rarest of the rare Brock Lesnar matches, the ones that even the WWE don’t promote?
From house shows, to dark segments, to overseas matches that escaped the spotlight, his career has covered a lot of ground and not all of it’s been made common knowledge. This article looks to change that, as we run through ten very rare Lesnar matches that are well worth checking out if you haven’t yet.
10. Alberto Del Rio (Dec 19, 2015)
As rare as it is to see Lesnar show up on WWE TV, it’s even
rarer still to see him work a house show with his limited part-time schedule.
But at the turn of this year, he actually appeared at three such events in back-to-back months across Texas and California. The first of which saw him take on Alberto Del Rio in Inglewood, CA, in what was Lesnar’s first untelevised house show appearance since February 2004.
And not only that, but with Del Rio’s United States Championship on the line, Lesnar had the chance to win a belt that he’d previously never challenged for.
Of course, it was always going to be unlikely to see Lesnar win a second-tier title on an untelevised house show in 2015. And that proved to be the case when Rusev’s interference saw the match end via a disqualification.
Up until then, Lesnar had been firmly in the ascendency. A hat-trick of Germans took the suplex count to six before Rusev’s arrival brought the contest to an end. Lesnar duly rewarded to Bulgarian with a pair of F5s for his efforts.