WrestleMania title shot: Defeated Kurt Angle at WrestleMania XIX When Brock Lesnar won the 2003 Royal Rumble, he had been in WWE for less than a year, debuting the night after WrestleMania X8. Lesnar was dubbed the Next Big Thing, and he would prove it during his two-year tenure. Lesnar had to defeat Big Show to gain entrance into the 03 Rumble, won and then went on to headline the criminally underrated WrestleMania XIX in a title match that was a perfect cap to the event.Brock would go on to defend the championship until July, when he would lose the title to Kurt Angle. The two would go on to have a huge rivalry for the next several months, during which Lesnar would turn heel again and add to his reputation as a badass.