10 Times WWE Went Too Far With Brock Lesnar

Brock Lesnar had hit the shooting star press plenty of times before he became a WWE full-timer, enough that primitive internet video sharing often included grainy footage of the 'Next Big Thing' turning himself inside out on poor f*ckers laying below.

Lesnar revealed in his book that John Laurinaitis had suggested it for the match, and Kurt Angle later confirmed he too was partly responsible. It's fair to call this one a collaborative near-catastrophe, even if WWE escaped with their headliner's head and neck still somehow attached.

Speaking on it in 2015, Angle said; "That was my idea, I will take responsibility for Brock doing that...I asked Brock to do the Shooting Star Press, which he had done many times in OVW. I just thought it would be a great way to end the show. Unfortunately Brock came up short. I think I was a little too far away, and Brock kinda double guessed before he went. If you ever watched the tape, you'll see he goes, then he kinda stops, then he says screw it. So that hesitation caused him to land on his head. But that was my call, I know that Brock didn't necessarily want to do it, but we did practice it earlier in the week and he was doing it perfectly well, he just got in a situation in the match where he kinda slipped a little bit and that was it."