Brock Lesnar

Ricochet is one of most innovative wrestlers of his generation, but he still hasn't had it plain sailing on the main roster.

But then I think, actually the pandemic and stuff happened and instead of me being in the Hurt Business I was just getting beat up by the Hurt Business for six months, but I do think there were talks for me to be in it for a second.' Speaking to SportsMail, Ricochet explained he only found out he was being squashed moments before walking though the curtain. I honestly think they were maybe like 'let's take a couple of people and make it four people. I think there's always opportunity, especially someone like me who is capable of anything,' Ricochet said. You obviously have ideas, but you know there is a story they are trying to tell, there's still characters they are trying to build for other things. Once he was called up, it's been a bit stop-start.

When Vince McMahon announced his retirement from WWE in July 2022, it shocked the wrestling world, including Brock Lesnar who walked out of that night's ...

“I was there for the first promo he had to do about his first WrestleMania main event because it was the night after the blizzard and Brock and I came and I opened it up by shaking his hand and telling him that I’ve known your family longer than you’ve known your own family and then when we finally brought it out into the ring, Brock had walked out of WWE five weeks before WrestleMania and we were tasked with Roman Reigns and Paul Heyman in the ring talking about Roman Reigns’ first WrestleMania main event. Brock Lesnar became the first match to main event three WrestleManias and proved to be the first time The Tribal Chief managed to get the better of his perennial rival on the grandest stage of them all. [Out of Character podcast](https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/out-of-character-with-ryan-satin/id1559678933), Heyman recalled Lesnar walked out of Raw leaving his advocate to begin the main event build to WrestleMania with Lesnar’s opponent for the event, [Roman Reigns](https://tjrwrestling.net/news/roman-reigns-history-wrestlemania-39/):

It has been 20 years since Brock Lesnar survived a scary landing at WrestleMania XIX, when he attempted the shooting-star press.

The commentators, Taz and Michael Cole, were obviously in shock as the landing looked nasty. The former UFC heavyweight champion was 290lbs and it had been a while since he had performed the maneuver, which is a remarkable feat in itself. The timing error and the Olympic gold medalist being a little further away resulted in 'The Beast Incarnate' landing on his head.