10 Interesting WWE Facts About Brock Lesnar In Madison Square Garden
9. A Bevy Of Opponents
Brock Lesnar squeezed quite a few Madison Square Garden appearances into his short two-year run with WWF/E 12 years ago. It only makes sense that the companys home arena would play host to one of its rising stars as often as possible. In 10 matches at MSG from 2002-04, Lesnar had nine singles matches against nine different opponents. The only multi-man match was a six-man tag in which four of the other participants were people he previously had faced in singles bouts (Big Show, Kurt Angle, Shelton Benjamin and Charlie Haas). The other wrestler? Mr. America, better known as Hulk Hogan. If you think you know the lineup in that bout, youre probably wrong. Lesnar teamed with Mr. America and Angle to oppose Haas, Benjamin and Big Show, who won the match. This also would turn out to be Hogans last match in WWE for two years, with Mr. McMahon firing Mr. America after he unmasked off-camera. When Lesnar faces Show on Saturday, itll be the first return bout at MSG for Brock, facing someone hes faced in singles competition there before.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
