It’s Over! Triple H Officially Confirms 7-Time WWE Champion Has Retired

WrestleMania 42 has concluded, but the WWE Universe is still reeling from everything that went down at The Show of Shows.

Brock Lesnar faced off against the Nigerian star Oba Femi in a hard-hitting bout at The Grandest Stage of Them All. Following Lesnar’s defeat at the hands of Femi, fans are speculating whether The Beast Incarnate has retired.

Seven-time WWE Champion Brock Lesnar issued an open challenge for WrestleMania on the February 23 episode of RAW. It was answered by none other than Oba Femi on the March 16 episode of SmackDown, hitting Lesnar with a devastating Fall From Grace pop-up powerbomb that left The Beast flat on the mat.

After dominating Lesnar for weeks, Oba Femi and Brock faced off in the opening match of WrestleMania 42 Night Two. The contest lasted less than five minutes and wasn’t close. Lesnar unloaded German suplexes and had Femi visiting Suplex City briefly, but Femi no-sold the punishment, hit the Fall From Grace, and pinned Lesnar clean.

What happened next was more significant than the result. Lesnar removed his gloves and boots, placed them down in the ring, and shared a tearful embrace with Paul Heyman. He then walked up the ramp to a thunderous “Thank You, Brock” chant from 50,000 fans at Allegiant Stadium.

Triple H issues a statement on Brock Lesnar’s retirement at WWE WrestleMania

Triple H has now opened up Lesnar’s retirement. The Game was asked about it on ESPN’s SportsCenter, and he left very little room for interpretation. He said:

Well, it certainly seemed that way. Brock is not a walk back through the curtain and have a long conversation guy. Brock is a walk back through the curtain, very angry, go to his bus, and that is the end of it. So there wasn’t a discussion afterward. They see Brock as this hulking brute, The Beast, right? But there comes a point when somebody comes along that’s bigger and better and pushes you to a place you can’t come back from.

The Chief Content Officer mentioned that Lesnar likely decided once Femi squashed and humiliated him.

The smart ones know when that happens, and they call it a day. I don’t think that was planned. I think Brock went to the ring and walked into a wall called Oba Femi. Brock walked up to the next big thing and ran into a brick wall, and the intelligence in him said, ‘Maybe I should call it a day.’ So he took his boots off, and he put his gloves down, and he walked away. That is not a statement of Brock being afraid of it. That is an intelligent man meeting something that cannot be stopped. It’s as much a statement of Oba as it is of Brock Lesnar. You just witnessed a changing of the guard at the apex of our business.

Lesnar had publicly said this year that he was returning to WWE for a short stint, calling himself “the old guy now.” At WrestleMania 42, it appears that the stint officially ended.

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