RESOLVING THE LEDGER
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At age 49, Brock Lesnar has finally put a bow on one of the most decorated combat sports careers of all-time.
The former WWE and UFC champion announced his retirement from combat sports Tuesday on “The Pat McAfee Show” following his much-celebrated WWE program with Oba Femi, which culminated in a Hell in the Cell loss at this past Saturday’s SummerSlam Night 1 main event in Lesnar’s home state of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Said Lesnar:
"I'm here today to do this interview, to let the world and everybody know that I am retired. And I wanted to say a big thank you to everybody. Saturday was a very emotional day for me. Kind of weird because I did — when Oba Femi slammed me a WrestleMania, I was like, ‘I can’t do this again.’ So I was like, ‘I think I’m done.’ But the business [wanted me back] and I still had some fuel in the tank. But Saturday, for Brock Lesnar, that’s it. That’s it for me in the squared circle and for everything else too.
So I just want to give a shoutout to everybody in this universe who has followed since I was a little kid all the way until Saturday. I was just a farm kid from South Dakota with a big dream and a big heart and a big-ass chip on my shoulder, and I’m just grateful. Grateful to be 49 years old and to have been able to do what I did in this lifetime. I thank God and everybody that supported me.
I want to thank all my coaches, and I want to especially say to the little kids — I was just a farm kid with a bunch of lint in my pocket, and I had big dreams, and I just worked. And I think a lot of people nowadays with social platforms platforms, athletes [post themselves] doing things, but they leave out the hard work. And if kids just stay focused on work and putting the time in, good things will happen.”
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