![]() ![]() By 2002, in his rookie year, he was the then youngest WWE Champion of all time, felling The Rock at SummerSlam, only four months after his on screen debut. Lesnar, of course, began as a dominant NCAA amateur wrestler, winning the Division 1 National Championship in 2000 before making the transition to the wild world of Sports Entertainment in 2001. That night, in front of a 75,000 strong crowd inside Levi’s Stadium, the Olympic bronze medalist kicked off her rivalry with the McMahon-Helmsley regime as her and The People’s Champion sent them fleeing from the ring. Rousey’s transition to WWE had been three years in the making, with the former UFC Women’s Bantamweight Champion hopping the guardrail, with an assist from The Rock, at WrestleMania 31 in San Francisco in 2015. And while ‘Rowdy’ earned a plethora of plaudits for her performance in that electric mixed tag match, Lesnar was finishing the night hurling his Universal Title belt at Vince McMahon backstage, visibly and legitimately pissed off at how his victory over Reigns had panned out, with the capacity crowd inside the New Orleans Superdome booing the pair out of the stadium, despite their tremendous efforts. In 2018, Rousey debuted inside the squared circle after calling time on her storied MMA career, teaming with Olympic gold medalist and WWE Hall of Famer Kurt Angle to take down The Authority, Triple H and Stephanie McMahon. The pair are no strangers to participating at the ‘Grandaddy of ‘em All’, obviously, having previously book ended WrestleMania 35 in 2019 with a pair of unsuccessful title defences. The next night, Brock Lesnar goes head-to-head with Roman Reigns, with each man putting their WWE and Universal Titles on the line respectively in a gigantic title unification bout. On the Saturday night - the first leg of what has now become a two-night event - Ronda Rousey will challenge Charlotte Flair for the SmackDown Women’s Title. This weekend, two former UFC Champions will headline WWE’s most marquee of events, WrestleMania. ![]()
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