For decades Brock Lesnar was one of the most feared athletes in combat sports and he had arguably one of the best rookie years in WWE history. During his early days with WWE, Brock Lesnar took the company by storm and he displayed his strength by throwing Shannon Moore over the top rope and out to the floor with an overhead belly to belly suplex.
While talking about the spot during an appearance on Insight with Chris Van Vliet, Shannon Moore revealed that the infamous spot actually ended up saving his job.
“Yeah, he gives me that belly-to-belly, and that’s something that’ll live forever, and probably the worst bump that I’ve ever taken. I could hardly walk after that. Whenever I got to the back, once it settled in, and the backstory to that too, it saved my job. Taking that bump ended up saving my job that night.
I remember right before the show, Terry Taylor came to me, and talk about another human that I think is such a great person that has done a lot for my career. Because one thing that Terry has done for me is he’s been honest with me, and this is one of those moments where he was super honest with me. He came to me. I was sitting down watching the monitor, and Terry comes to me and he’s like, ‘Shannon, you got to do something tonight that makes the boss want to keep you here.’ I was like, ‘What?’ And he’s like, ‘Yeah, you need to do something that makes Vince want to keep you here tonight.’”
There’s no denying that Brock Lesnar had a massively successful run with WWE, but his run with the company officially came to an end over the summer when he was defeated by Oba Femi at SummerSlam in Minneapolis.