There are a lot of wrestlers who’ve had their fair proportion of problems with Brock Lesnar over time. Whether or not it’s Chris Jericho for intentionally busting Randy Orton open, Hardcore Holly for breaking his neck, and even Shinsuke Nakamura for disrespecting Recent Japan Pro Wrestling. But there’s one man who had heat with Lesnar for one specific match, and that man is none apart from the previous AEW World Champion Jon Moxley.
During Moxley’s time as Dean Ambrose in WWE, he was referred to as the “Lunatic Fringe” and was seen as one in every of the wildest wrestlers in WWE on the time. At all times up for a fight and never afraid to make use of his roots in CZW to his advantage, Ambrose was extremely popular with the fans, and he had a variety of momentum heading into WrestleMania 32 in 2016, where he met Lesnar in a Street Fight. The match was overvalued as some of the chaotic and unpredictable matches in WWE history, but ultimately, it was a reasonably straightforward match that did not do much of anything and left a variety of fans, and the wrestlers involved, disenchanted.
Later that 12 months, Ambrose appeared on the “Broken Skull Sessions” with Stone Cold Steve Austin, where he was asked concerning the match with Lesnar, and he was not pleased. Ambrose explained that he pitched a variety of ideas for the match that were all shot down by Lesnar, who wasn’t into thumbtacks or barbed wire, with Ambrose even stating that he was met with laziness from Lesnar, who wasn’t all for producing a show-stealing match. Nevertheless, that appearance on the “Broken Skull Sessions” didn’t exactly go down well.
A number of years later, Paul Heyman was asked concerning the match between Lesnar and Ambrose, to which he dismissed the claims that Lesnar was lazy, claimed that Ambrose’s attitude p***** off Steve Austin, and that he took that very same attitude into the match at WrestleMania 32, causing it to be bad. Whether there continues to be heat between Ambrose/Moxley, Lesnar, and Heyman to at the present time stays to be seen.