5 best Brock Lesnar moments on SmackDown

#3 Brock Lesnar squashes Hulk Hogan

No one had been able to do to Hulkamania what Brock Lesnar did

Shortly before Lesnar was scheduled to challenge then-champion The Rock for the WWE Championship, Brock Lesnar crossed paths with Hulk Hogan. Hogan, as you might recall, is arguably the most famous wrestler of all time, and has become famous both for his cross-cultural appeal and for alleged backstage politicking. But neither of those things could save him from the wrath of Brock Lesnar.

On August 8th, 2002, Lesnar confronted Hogan and proceeded to destroy “The Immortal One” like no one had ever done before. Lesnar pummeled Hogan with unrelenting fury, locked him in several painful-looking bearhugs, and left the legendary Hulkster lying in a pool of his own blood. To add gravitas to the moment, Lesnar took some of Hogan’s blood and wiped it on his chest, as if to put it on like a badge of honor.

In that moment, Lesnar did something so unbelievable that it convinced many people that he was a once-in-a-lifetime wrestler. In the span of a few short minutes, Lesnar did what few wrestlers, if any, were capable of doing in the past thirty years: making a name of themselves at the expense of the greatest wrestling icon the world had ever seen.