A Rookie Brock Lesnar Was Always Hungry for Opportunity, Once Recalled ‘Excitement’ to Perform With Stars Like Steve Austin in Attendance

All the wrestlers have to start somewhere. Some start on the independents some wrestle in bingo halls before making it big while others go through a promotion’s system. Brock Lesnar joined WWE via an alternate path. The Beast Incarnate was a part of WWE’s developmental territory, OVW. The ‘Ohio Valley Wrestling’ was where Lesnar was trained. Several seniors of the pro wrestling promotion used to attend these ‘dark room shows’ where talents undergoing training used to perform.

During his training period, “Stone Cold” Steve Austin once attended one of the OVW shows. When ‘The Beast’ was asked about how it made him feel, his response was special in its own way.

Brock Lesnar’s ‘exciting’ response

The wrestler had joined OVW back in 2000. In January 2001, Lesnar had a tag team match in one of the OVW shows. He paired with Shelton Benjamin to wrestle against their competitors on January 31st, 2001. The tag duo ended up winning the match. After Dave Meltzer got hold of Lesnar for an interview, he asked him about the match.

“What was your feelings before that show,” asked the journalist while especially inclining his angle towards the presence of the big WWE celebrities. He also mentioned Steve Austin and Jim Ross as a reference to his question.

Brock Lesnar shared during the interview, “I was really excited for that show. We put a lot of time into that show and I just wanted to… I just wanted to show Jim Ross and those guys that I’m trying my damnedest to become a professional wrestler.” Through his words, we can guess that he was eager to prove his potential to the big WWE personalities present for the dark room match.

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The Beast Incarnate’s urge to impress Austin could’ve been integrated into a storyline. As a result, their much-wanted wrestling match could also have come to life.

Brock Lesnar once almost wrestled against Steve Austin

Following his rapid popularity among the audience, WWE was trying to push Brock Lesnar even more. So, after Lesnar debuted on the main roster of WWE in 2002, the company started placing him against the top stars as well. One of them was supposed to be ‘Stone Cold’.

Although the two wrestlers faced each other before the match once, the match couldn’t really take place.

According to a WWE personality, the match couldn’t take place because Lesnar had made Austin angry. Seeing a newcomer compete with him is probably what made the WWE legend turn down the match. However, the WWE Hall of Famer himself revealed that the reason behind the same was the lack of story build-up.

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Had WWE followed a storyline moving forward with the two wrestlers, we could’ve seen the match.

Do you think Brock Lesnar would still have been excited when he got to know he might face Steve Austin in a match?