10 Things WWE Wants You To Forget About Brock Lesnar

9. He Broke Bob Holly's Neck

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gnBK1qvofK8 During a match on Smackdown in 2002, Brock Lesnar was taking on Bob "Hardcore" Holly. After a botched powerbomb, Holly's neck was broken. Holly ended up missing over a year of action until his return in late 2003. In an interview with Wrestling101 in 2013, Holly talked about the incident: "Let me clear something up, people write stupid s--t on the internet all the time saying me and Brock didn't get along, me and him got along just fine and we worked well together. I did break my neck during a match with Brock but he called me all the time while I was in the hospital checking up on me. People say that he did it on purpose and I got what I deserved, let me tell you something no one deserves to get a broken neck number one, and he didn't do it on purpose!" It's nice to know that Holly wasn't mad at Lesnar about it. It was painful just to watch the move as Lesnar struggled to keep him up and then dropped Holly right on his neck. There are stories that Holly purposely made it difficult (the term is "sandbag" in wrestling) for Lesnar to do the move, but it's hard to know if that's true because as you can see it hurt him more when Lesnar didn't do the move right. Maybe that's why Holly isn't mad about it because some of the blame is on him. They brought back Holly as a babyface at the Royal Rumble in 2004 and even gave him a WWE Title shot against Lesnar. It was a bit of a stretch to see Holly in a major match like that because he was a midcarder in his career. Lesnar won the match convincingly to end that feud.