Brock Lesnar Once Suplexed A Kansas City Chiefs Player During An NFL Preseason Game


NFL scrimmages are hell. They’re in the middle of the summer and there’s nothing like being in football pads and heat. So it’s not a surprise that many fights happen at these camps, almost always between teammates. These fights are all generally benign, unless they involve current WWE Universal Champion Brock Lesnar, then it’s a whole different ballgame.

The resume for Lesnar is well known: five-time WWE champ, won the UFC heavyweight title during his self-imposed exodus from pro wrestling, and multiple amateur wrestling accolades spanning from high school to college. Needless to say, one would think that trying to take him on in any kind of fight would require a lot of bravery, courage or stupidity — and perhaps a mix of all three.

CBS Sports NFL Analyst Nate Burleson tells a beautifully animated story of the 2004 Minnesota Vikings training camp and one of their big additions to the team: Brock Lesnar. Burleson describes Lesnar as a guy who came into training camp eager to learn and put his time into the playbook as much as in the weight room. However, Lesnar’s most memorable moment as a Viking was due to a training camp fight during a scrimmage with the Kansas City Chiefs.

” A scuffle breaks out after practice,” Burleson says. “Daunte Culpepper gets shoved in the back and identifies the guy. Brock comes over to him, picks him up off the ground and asks him who did it. Smoke is coming out of Brock’s nostrils, he’s clenching those cinder block fists of his. So when Lesnar finally got his hands on this dude, he gave a grown man a full blown suplex.”

Needless to say that despite the suplex, Lesnar never ended up making the team that season. The consensus opinion is that Lesnar could have had a successful NFL career if he’d been willing to put in the work for another year or two, but he wasn’t willing to pass up UFC money to make a practice squad (or NFL Europe) salary. The NFL dreams that Lesnar had may have faded quickly, but not without giving us one hell of a story first.

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