10 Ways Brock Lesnar Is A Modern Big Van Vader

They have a lot more in common than you think…

Brock Lesnar is one of the most intimidating and successful wrestlers in recent wrestling history. He€™s a Beast of an athlete who has monstrous strength, surprising speed, and immense technical skill stemming from a highly successful amateur wrestling career. He has been to the top of WWE on numerous occasions, and has enjoyed an equally-successful MMA career, which has solidified his reputation as one of the baddest men on the planet. Big Van Vader is an internationally-recognized legend who made a career out of doing things that a man his size should never have been capable of doing. This was a 450-pound man who moved around the ring with incredible speed and whose secondary finisher was a Moonsault. He excelled in football, transitioned into pro wrestling successfully, and became a tremendous wrestler in Japan, the US, Europe and Mexico. He has enjoyed a very successful career, winning championship in almost every promotion he has ever competed in. When you look at their careers, it€™s clear that Brock Lesnar is a modern version of Big Van Vader. These two men share so many things in common: their training, the roles they played in the promotions they worked for, their success, their legendary reputations among wrestling fans, and much more. This article will delve deeper into that comparison, and will provide ten examples of significant commonalities between Lesnar and Vader. Considering how much they have in common, the only real difference between them is the weight difference; other than that, they might as well be the same person, because€
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Alexander Podgorski is a writer for WhatCulture that has been a fan of professional wrestling since he was 8 years old. He loves all kinds of wrestling, from WWE and sports entertainment, to puroresu in Japan. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Queen's University in Political Studies and French, and a Master's Degree in Public Administration. He speaks English, French, Polish, a bit of German, and knows some odd words and phrases in half a dozen other languages.