Going back to Lesnar’s wrestling days, he said he bumped up to wrestling as a heavyweight his senior year, but he wasn’t recruited because he wasn’t a true heavyweight.
He talked about open workouts at the collegiate level, and he had taken classes at Bismarck State that didn’t qualify him to go to University of Minnesota. He was shy on credits so he had to go to community college in California to get the credits he needed.
Lesnar then talks about winning the NCAA wrestling title, and then he dropped out of school. He said he fell into a bit of depression, he was broke, and all he did everyday was workout as he didn’t know what to do with himself.
He finally got himself out of the house, and he started approaching wrestling coaches, etc, and he finally ended up in Ohio Valley Wrestling. Randy Orton, Batista were amongst the up and coming talent Lesnar worked with, and Lesnar says he had a friend in Shelton Benjamin, his old roommate in college.
Lesnar said he was blown away when he saw the barbaric, training facilities at OVW and he loved it.
Lesnar said he had to finish up some training camps before he signed with WWE officially, and he told Jim Ross he couldn’t move where WWE wanted him to go until he finished his prior obligations.
Lesnar says Jim Ross agreed to allow him to train more in Minnesota, and then he eventually made his way to the main WWE roster.
Austin brings up how both Curt Hennig and Ray Traylor, aka Big Bossman, took an instant liking to Lesnar. Lesnar talks about riding on the road with Hennig and Traylor, and said he learned a lot from those road trips, like ring psychology, and the inner workings of the business.
Austin brings up Lesnar being thrown right into a match against Triple H and The Rock, and he kind of got left out by those guys as it’s a sink or swim mentality.
Lesnar said people can say what they want about The Rock and the business, but he praised The Rock and said Rock was not selfish to Lesnar, and was very good to him the night Lesnar one the WWE Title.
