{"id":594659,"date":"2026-04-20T01:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/594659\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T01:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T01:05:09","slug":"brock-lesnar-appears-to-stunningly-retire-at-wrestlemania-42","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/594659\/","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.newsbeep.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":2,"featured_media":594660,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[43083,88,99,28331,28592,4366],"class_list":{"0":"post-594659","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-brock-lesnar","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-wrestlemania","12":"tag-wrestling","13":"tag-wwe"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594659","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=594659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594660"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}