{"id":739727,"date":"2026-04-20T00:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/739727\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T00:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T00:26:14","slug":"brock-lesnar-appears-to-stunningly-retire-at-wrestlemania-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/739727\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Lesnar appears to stunningly retire at WrestleMania 42"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock Lesnar appears to have stunningly retired from professional wrestling.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The former UFC and WWE champion left his gloves and boots off in the ring after losing to Oba Femi in the opening match of Night 2 of WrestleMania 42 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39136282\" width=\"435\" height=\"220\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-19-182900.png\" alt=\"Brock Lesnar retires from WWE at WrestleMania 42.\" class=\"wp-image-39136282\" style=\"width:691px;height:auto;aspect-ratio:1.97727273;display:block\"  \/>Brock Lesnar retires from WWE at WrestleMania 42. Screengrab<\/p>\n<p>Lesnar,48, got a hug from longtime manager and friend Paul Heyman and kissed the mat before exiting the ring to chants of \u201cThank you, Brock!\u201d and Thank you, Lesnar!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The match was a passing-of-the-torch moment for the former NCAA Division I heavyweight wrestling champion to Femi, WWE\u2019s next larger-than-life phenom.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Gunther is still owed a storyline favor from Heyman, which could be a way to get Lesnar out of retirment for one more match in his home city of Minneopolis at SummerSlam<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brock Lesnar appears to have stunningly retired from professional wrestling.\u00a0 The former UFC and WWE champion left his&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":739728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[73601,171,62,67,132,68,251830,8117,188],"class_list":["post-739727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-brock-lesnar","tag-entertainment","tag-sports","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wrestlemania","tag-wrestling","tag-wwe"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116434199536082764","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}