15 Most Shocking Brock Lesnar Quotes About WWE
Not a big fan of Vince McMahon... until five million dollars changed everything.
Brock Lesnar has a fantastic relationship with WWE in 2015. He's the most pushed star of the decade and earns around five million dollars a year to destroy the likes of John Cena and The Undertaker. Having main evented WrestleMania this year, he's now set to headline SummerSlam. But you don't have to look too far back to find a time WWE and Brock Lesnar hated each others guts. He saw them as a quick way to an early grave, hence his decision to quit abruptly in 2004. Vince McMahon responded with a no-compete clause that tried to stop Lesnar from ever earning a living again, making the animosity between the two sides even more bitter. Legal battles followed and Lesnar eventually managed to break free and work for the UFC. As a fighter he became a huge star, making an unlikely new leverage point to do business again with the WWE. Vince McMahon saw Brock's UFC PPV numbers and wanted a piece of the action. A five million dollar offer for four WWE matches a year came in, and suddenly Lesnar forgot all about some of the outrageously heated things he once said about WWE. The following are just a selection of the most shocking quotes, most of them from the DeathClutch autobiography he penned with Paul Heyman in 2011. Given that Heyman and Lesnar were so honest, you have to wonder if these quotes copped them some heat.