10 Exact Moments That Turned WWE Wrestlers Into Superstars

7. Brock Lesnar - No Mercy 2002

It only makes sense that The Undertaker is the one that truly got Brock Lesnar over back in 2002. Lesnar seems to have always gotten the better of Undertaker. They have had 6 singles matches on TV/PPV in their careers. Brock has won 4 of them. 3 of the matches were clean. Undertaker won only once in an unclean finish at Summerslam 2015 and their first encounter at Unforgiven 2002 was a double DQ.

Brock in 2002 already had the rocket strapped to him as he was getting pushed to the moon. He had beaten The Rock in 2002 for the WWE Championship at Summerslam. But Brock needed that one decisive win to truly get him over. The Undertaker was the number one contender after the Double DQ at Unforgiven. In the build up to the match, Brock had broken Taker’s hand, which was in a cast for the match.

The match itself was a hell of a battle. Both men were bleeding in this match, and so was Heyman, who wasn’t even in the cell. Taker did one of the nastiest blade jobs in history, by the end he looked more like a victim in a giallo film than a wrestler. There were multiple chair shots to Taker’s broken hand, Taker jumps off the top rope and knees Brock in the head, Paul Heyman is screaming on the outside, and it ended the same way the Streak was ended, with a Tombstone reversed into an F5.

After the match Brock was standing on top of the cell holding the WWE Championship high into the air. Brock has now been a 4 time WWE Champion, the youngest WWE Champion, a one time IWGP champion, NCAA All American, UFC Champion and the one of the biggest box office draws in UFC history.