When Brock debuted on the WWF main roster, the company strapped the proverbial rocket to his back and pushed him to the moon. He became the youngest man in company history to win the WWE Title, beating The Rock at 2002's SummerSlam event at the age of 25. He was both the present and the future, and there is everything to believe he was set to be everything John Cena and Randy Orton have become, as far as title reigns and career dominance are concerned. Unfortunately for them, Brock wasn't enjoying his time with the company. He hated the grueling travel schedule, and he had dreams of playing professional football. After WrestleMania 20, he left and would go tryout for his hometown (he grew up very close to Minnesota and would go on to college in the state) Minnesota Vikings. WWE Management was very upset that Brock wanted to leave, as they put so much time and effort into pushing him and making him look like a million bucks. The first thing the company did after he left was remove him from the record books, giving Randy Orton, at the age of 24, the World Title five months later. Some saw it as a petty move by WWE, especially with Orton not necessarily being "ready" for that spot so early in his career, but it happened, and for the next eight years, people went on thinking that they would never see Brock in a WWE ring again.
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