Brock Lesnar

Brock Edward Lesnar is an American professional wrestler former mixed martial artist amateur wrestler and professional football player He is currently signed to WWE and is the reigning WWE Champion in his seventh reign Regarded as one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time he is the only person to hold the primary heavyweight championships in WWE Ultimate Fighting Championship UFC New Japan ProWrestling NJPW and the National Collegiate Athletic Association NCAA Lesnar competed in amateur wrestling for the University of Minnesota winning the NCAA Division I national championship in 2000 He soon signed with the World Wrestling Federation WWF renamed WWE in 2002 rising to industry prominence in 2002 by winning the WWE Championship at age 25 setting the record for the youngest performer to win the championship In 2004 Lesnar departed WWE to join the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League NFL but was cut from the team during preseason He won the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in 2005 while with NJPW and he resigned with WWE in 2012 his 504day reign as Universal Champion is the seventhlongest world championship reign in the promotions history He also won the Royal Rumble match twice the Money in the Bank ladder match the King of the Ring tournament and has headlined several payperview events including WWEs flagship event WrestleMania four times XIX 31 34 and 36 in addition he also ended The Undertakers undefeated WrestleMania Streak in 2014 Lesnar began an MMA career in 2007 and signed with the UFC in 2008 He quickly won the UFC Heavyweight Championship but was sidelined with diverticulitis in 2009 On his return in 2010 Lesnar defeated Interim UFC Heavyweight Champion Shane Carwin to unify the heavyweight championships becoming the only undisputed UFC Heavyweight Champion After a set of losses and further struggles with diverticulitis Lesnar retired from MMA in 2011 He returned in 2016 and defeated Mark Hunt his victory was overturned to a nocontest after Lesnar tested positive for clomiphene a banned substance on UFCs antidoping policy Lesnar then retired from MMA for a second time in 2017 A box office sensation Lesnar competed in some of the bestselling payperview events in promotion history including headlining UFC 91 UFC 100 UFC 116 and UFC 121