Brock Edward Lesnar (/'lezn@r/ LEHZ-nur, born on July 12 1977) is an American-Canadian professional wrestler, former mixed martial artist (MMA), amateur wrestler, and professional American football player who holds both American as well as Canadian citizenship. He is currently signed to the professional wrestling organization WWE and, in the the storyline, he's a "free agent", allowing him to be a part of both the Raw and SmackDown brands. Lesnar is the sole person to win all of the major heavyweight titles of WWE, Ultimate Fighting Championship, New Japan Pro-Wrestling(NJPW), and the National Collegiate Athletic Association. He also participated in collegiate wrestling at the University of Minnesota. In 2000, he was awarded the NCAA Division I national title. Then, he joined the World Wrestling Federation (WWF, renamed WWE in 2002) before rising to prominence in 2002 by winning the WWE Championship at the age of 25, setting records for the youngest athlete to win the championship. In 2004, Lesnar quit WWE for the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League (NFL), but was cut from the team during pre-season. He took home the IWGP Heavyweight Championship in 2005 during his time with NJPW before resigning to WWE in 2012; his reign of 504 days as Universal Champion is the seventh-longest world championship reign in the promotion's history. He also was the winner of the Royal Rumble match twice (2003 and 2022) and the Money in the Bank ladder match (2019) and the King of the Ring tournament (2002) and has been the main attraction at several pay-per-view shows, which include WWE's flagship event WrestleMania five times (XIX 31, 34 36, 38, and 37); in addition the event ended The Undertaker's undefeated WrestleMania streak in 2014.
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