10 Very Rare Brock Lesnar Matches You Have To See

Long before Lesnar was challenging for WWE Championships, though, he was being put through his paces on a series of dark segments before Raws and SmackDowns each week.

There are a whole host of these matches available on YouTube; meetings with Spike Dudley, Crash Holly, Albert, and Funaki. But one that stood out to me more than most was a tag team match pitting Lesnar and Ron Waterman against Faarooq and Bradshaw of the APA.

Bradshaw in particular has gained some notoriety for being a bit of a backstage bully. Stories endure of his hazing of the likes of the Miz, Bully Ray, and the Blue Meanie, among others, so it was interesting to see how he’d treat a couple of rookies like Lesnar and Waterman.

And other than a hard big boot to the jaw, you’d have to say Lesnar got off fairly scot-free; Bradshaw must have been a fan. In the end it was Waterman — who’d later return to the world of MMA — that Bradshaw scored the pinfall off after a bigtime Clothesline from Hell.

Following the match, Lesnar and Waterman were roundly booed out by the South Carolina crowd, so they must have been doing something right; Lesnar maybe more so than Waterman.