Brock Lesnar may have walked away from WWE, but a private phone call left a lasting impression on The Undertaker.
Lesnar confirmed his retirement earlier this month after losing to Oba Femi inside Hell in a Cell in the main event of SummerSlam Night One. After the match, Lesnar raised Femi’s hand and told the crowd that Femi represented the future while he was now part of the past.
Now, The Undertaker has offered some insight into the person behind “The Beast” following a conversation that clearly meant a great deal to him.
Speaking alongside Paul Heyman on his Six Feet Under podcast, Taker revealed that he received a phone call the day before the episode was recorded. He deliberately stopped short of explaining what the call was about.
That phone call that I got yesterday really meant a lot to me. And I’m not even going to get into what the phone call was about. But the fact that I received that phone call, it said a lot about him.
For years, Lesnar’s limited WWE schedule and lucrative contracts have fueled criticism that his involvement in professional wrestling was primarily motivated by money. The Undertaker strongly disagrees with that assessment.
The Undertaker Defends Brock Lesnar’s Passion For Wrestling
According to The Undertaker, Lesnar hasn’t received enough credit for how much he genuinely cared about professional wrestling.
He acknowledged the criticism surrounding Lesnar’s pay and schedule but dismissed the idea that those factors accurately reflected how Lesnar felt about the business.
I don’t think Brock really got enough credit for his passion for the business. Everybody chirps, and everybody has their opinion that they don’t know s*** about what they’re talking about. It was always, oh, it’s always about the money, or they bitched about the dates and everything like that.
He believes Lesnar respected the traditions of the industry and understood the unwritten customs passed down through generations of wrestlers.
I think he genuinely, I mean, he had to love this business. And things like that phone call yesterday just kind of reiterated to me, yeah, he understood, he gets it.
That realization also made Lesnar’s retirement more bittersweet for The Undertaker. With another veteran now stepping away, he feels wrestling has lost one more person who understood how the business operated in previous generations.
And it’s kind of sad for me because it’s one less guy that’s going to be around that understands tradition and the way things used to be done.
