{"id":331611,"date":"2026-05-09T03:43:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=331611"},"modified":"2026-05-09T03:43:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T22:13:08","slug":"brock-lesnars-wrestlemania-retirement-blindsided-paul-heyman-lizzy-rain-eyes-nxt-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/brock-lesnars-wrestlemania-retirement-blindsided-paul-heyman-lizzy-rain-eyes-nxt-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Lesnar&#8217;s WrestleMania Retirement Blindsided Paul Heyman, Lizzy Rain Eyes NXT Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_91\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p>Paul Heyman has revealed that he genuinely had no concept that Brock Lesnar was going to retire at WrestleMania 42.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent interview with <em>TMZ Sports,<\/em> Heyman pointed to his own response at ringside as proof, noting that he was visibly in tears. He said,<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cIf I knew he was gonna\u2019 retire, would I even have gone on record saying he was gonna dominate for the subsequent 15 years? I used to be crying. Am I that good of an actor that I can cry on cue? Not I.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Lesnar has since been moved to the WWE Alumni section following his loss to Oba Femi at WrestleMania 42 (Night One).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Oba Femi vs. Brock Lesnar: WrestleMania 42 Sunday highlights\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/diIfCCLi_7w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Lizzy Rain has shared her excitement about teaming with Women\u2019s North American Champion Tatum Paxley to face Nikkita Lyons and Zaria on WWE NXT.<\/p>\n<p>During a recent interview with <em>Soundsphere Magazine, <\/em>Rain declared that winning the Women\u2019s North American Championship is her next goal, and he or she is here to go big or go home.<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;ll be able to take a look at some highlights from the interview below:<\/p>\n<p><strong>On the upcoming tag team match: <\/strong>\u201cI\u2019m so privileged to be within the ring with them [Tatum and Zaria], after which to get that, or sort of a rematch \u2014 I understand it\u2019s a tag match, but to be within the ring again with Nikita, two people who I said I actually desired to face, after which someone I faced just two weeks ago may be very cool. It\u2019s like, you realize, the wrestling universe was really listening to me, which may be very surreal.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>On her championship aspirations: <\/strong>\u201cYou understand what it&#8217;s, the subsequent goal? the North American Championship is the subsequent goal. Why not, like, go big or go home? I\u2019m loud; I\u2019m unapologetic. I\u2019m here to make an impact. So why not go for that belt?\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paul Heyman has revealed that he genuinely had no concept that Brock Lesnar was going to retire at WrestleMania 42. During a recent interview with TMZ Sports, Heyman pointed to his own response at ringside as proof, noting that he was visibly in tears. He said, \u201cIf I knew he was gonna\u2019 retire, would I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":331612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21056],"tags":[21917,8822,1570,3465,20031,33682,51507,13883,4546,2374,2411,9418],"class_list":["post-331611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwe-and-more","tag-blindsided","tag-brock","tag-eyes","tag-gold","tag-heyman","tag-lesnars","tag-lizzy","tag-nxt","tag-paul","tag-rain","tag-retirement","tag-wrestlemania"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=331611"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331614,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331611\/revisions\/331614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/331612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}