Hey everyone, here we go once again with another edition of “Remember When.” The latest buzz going around the Wrestling world is the WWE return of Brock Lesnar. So, why not go with a Brock edition of “Remember When” this week? Here comes the pain.
Do you remember when Lesnar used the Shooting Star Press?
This was back when he used the move back at WM 19. I’m talking about his days back in OVW. I remember seeing him use the move before when he was over there in development.
He also used the move back in 2001. It was in a dark match, it was Brock teaming up with Shelton Benjamin taking on some local guys. I guess the original plan was to have Shelton and Lesnar be brought up to the main roster as a tag team since both are collegiate athletes and both held the OVW Tag Titles together.
Brock had the capability to execute SSP very well so the question is, what happened at WM 19? I guess since Brock hadn’t done the move in quite awhile and Kurt was pretty far away. It looked like if Kurt was just a little bit closer to Brock’s corner, the move would’ve turned out fine.
Can you imagine Brock executing that move on John Cena? Of course it’ll probably never happen, but stranger things in Wrestling have happened.
What do y’all think?
Here’s the Brock Lesnar SSP in the dark match back in 2001
Here’s the Brock Lesnar SSP at WM 19
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Haven’t seen the dark match one. WOW!
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I think Brock & Benjamin would’ve been a great tag team with Paul Heyman in their corner.
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Yeah, Heyman would’ve rocked as their mouthpiece.
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How Lesnar didn’t kill himself at WM19 is a miracle. He was lucky he had such strong neck.
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Yeah, it was like I said above, if Kurt was a little closer to Brock, the move would’ve turned out better.
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Yes I do Remember that. Brock is a little clumsy and dangerous at the same time.
Look at that punch to Cena last night! lol
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So are you saying he’s this era’s Ahmed Johnson? haha. Also, I have yet to see Raw or that so called punch that you speak of.
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lol.
It was at the start of RAW. It wasn’t a vicious punch, maybe Cena did allow Lesnar to actually hit him to make it look as real as possible but he did punch him and made him bleed.
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I’m not sure I’d allow Lesnar to hit me for real. I imagine it was an accident but since Lesnar doesn’t like Cena, he could have hit him for real and said it was an “accident”.
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I don’t think Lesnar would do that, he’s a professional…not an asshole, lol. Cena is tough, though.
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I definitely remember the WM 19 SSP, hehe. Speaking of that match, I remember not knowing who to root for, because I was a big Brock fan, but a HUGE Kurt Angle fan.
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That match was generally awesome. Regarding thr shooting star I remember reading at the time Shelton Benjamin said that it came from their time as a tag team on OVW when their gimick was for Shelton to hit some high flying move and Brock to copy it, then try to out do themselves the next night
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Remember their Ironman Match? Awesome stuff, IMO.
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A really awesome match. In Brocks book he talked about how he didn’t want to do this at Mania, but JR and others talked him into it by saying it would be a show-stealer and a great moment.
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Well, a similar situation happened with Sid at WCW Sin in 2001 and look what happened.
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No way could he hit it now, he’s put on too much weight. If he cuts down he may be able to hit it by Mania, might even silence the critics.
Unfortunately as I have stated in my previous blog, the match with Angle will always be remembered for the botched move.
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What about thier Ironman match?
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I cringe every time I see the SSP attempt on Angle. Didn’t they put it down to a combo of Angle being too far away, and a problem with the ropes? Something like they were slippy?
When he hits it properly, it does look impressive.
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Yeah, like I said above, if Angle was a little closer than maybe Brock would’ve executed a little better.
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The dark SSP was nice, but it didn’t look like he landed on his opponent. It looks like he was a few inches short.
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Well, it was a dark match so not much was expected from the get go. But it did look better than the WM 19 one.
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Good or not, the WM 19 SSP is one of the most memorable spots in WM history.
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