5 current top WWE Superstars who initially didn't want to become wrestlers

#1. WWE legend Brock Lesnar

Like all previous entries on this list, Brock Lesnar initially did not want to become a professional wrestler. The Beast Incarnate did not even watch wrestling growing up as a child.

In an interview with ESPN's Face to Face, the former WWE Champion revealed that he only started watching WWE when the company wanted to sign him.

"I didn't grow up as a pro wrestling fan. I never watched pro wrestling as a kid. The first time I'd ever seen pro wrestling or ever had the desire to even watch it, I was already a senior in college when the company approached me and wanted me to participate with the programme," he said.

In his autobiography Death Clutch: My Story of Determination, Domination, and Survival, Lesnar disclosed that despite never being a wrestling fan, he decided to join WWE because the company offered him guaranteed money.

"My dream was never the Olympics. It was to win the NCAA Heavyweight Championship. I achieved my goal, and I knew in my heart it was time to move on (...) I was thinking about trying either professional football or professional wrestling (...) The NFL was going to have to wait. I was being offered a sure thing, and was going to become a professional wrestler. Again, it was really simple. WWE offered me guaranteed money, including a big signing bonus with no strings attached (...) I signed the biggest development deal in WWE history (...) I hadn't even watched five minutes of pro wrestling in my life. All I knew was that I was a poor kid with student loans, and I was being offered more money than I'd ever seen in my entire life," he wrote.

Lesnar joined WWE in 2000 and made his main roster debut two years later. He then left in 2004 before returning to the company in 2012. The Beast Incarnate is now one of the greatest superstars in WWE history.

The former WWE Champion recently won the 2022 Men's Royal Rumble match. He will now challenge Roman Reigns for the Universal Championship at WrestleMania 38.

The 44-year-old will also attempt to recapture his WWE Title when he competes in the WWE Championship elimination chamber match next Saturday at the Elimination Chamber premium live event.