10 Wrestlers For Whose Passion For Wrestling WWE Killed

3. Brock Lesnar

Shinsuke Nakamura
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On paper, this would sound ridiculous. Brock Lesnar, one of the most pampered superstars in the history of WWE, how on earth could he ever feel bad working with the company? Well, this had nothing to do with the work life and everything to do with the personal life.

During the end of his first run with WWE, Lesnar was mentally exhausted. He couldn’t take the schedule anymore and wanted nothing more than to go home to his family. This was best summed up by Rey Mysterio in a recent interview where he revealed just how miserable Brock was working the endless sequence of shows, simply wanting to quit.

And what Brock Lesnar wants, Brock Lesnar gets. He was eventually able to escape his WWE prison and try his luck in the NFL. When that didn’t work out, he sailed across the ocean to go wrestle in New Japan, despite not being legally allowed to do so. Today he might be this awe-inspiring big fight player, but there was a time when working for WWE had made Lesnar vulnerable to the simplest of human weaknesses.

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After battling Galactus and pinning Hulk Hogan in the main event of Wrestlemania, I've taken a break from living in fantasy worlds, to focus on writing about them. I'm a comic book geek, a wrestling mark, a break dancer, and a scientist. One of those things may not be true.