Brock Lesnar has been making a lot of money over the last decade in WWE as a part time star after his UFC career.
Brock Lesnar and Goldberg squared off at WrestleMania 20 in a match that was always going to end badly. With both stars leaving the company, the fans turned on the participants and ended up booing the match relentlessly.
During Grilling JR, Jim Ross explained that Goldberg and Brock Lesnar were paid $250k each for their spot on the WrestleMania XX card. We’re not sure how Goldberg took that news, but Lesnar wasn’t happy about it.
“I remember, the pay-off for WrestleMania 20, he [Lesnar] made $250,000 and so did Goldberg.”
“I remember sitting in my office in Stamford when Vince’s assistant said ‘Brock Lesnar is on the line, he wants to talk to Vince and Vince wants him to talk to you’. So that was my prep for that conversation.”
“I got on the phone to him and he’s in a foul mood because he thought he got screwed with his pay-off.”
JR on Grillin JR
JR would have to deal with the wrath of Brock, continuing on the topic:
“I didn’t have a problem with him hanging up on me. He heard his answer: ‘You’re not getting any more money, we think we paid you fairly’. Thank God he was on the phone and not staring me down the gullet! He’s a little intimidating. We were a little bit shocked it came to that.”
JR on Grillin JR
Of course, both competitors would return to the WWE and would once again square off at Wrestlemania 33.
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