Last month, former NXT Champion Samoa Joe downed Roman Reigns, Seth Rollins, Finn Balor, and Bray Wyatt in a Fatal Five-Way match to become the new No. 1-contender for Brock Lesnar’s WWE Universal Championship. For weeks leading up to the bout Joe and Lesnar engaged in some great back-and-forth prior to their meeting, and it lived up to the hype when the pair finally collided in the center of the squared circle during the main event of the Great Balls Of Fire pay-per-view (PPV) earlier this month.
Joe recently joined Tampa Bay’s 102.5 The Bone to talk about what it was like to work with Lesnar, comparing him to a ‘shaved gorilla’ who doesn’t know his own strength:
“Not a lot of people get into Brock Lesnar like I did.” Joe continued, “Brock is every bit as intimidating as you’d imagine he would be times two. No, I mean, he’s a shaved gorilla. It’s just he’s stronger than strong. I don’t even think he even realizes how strong he is. I mean, he [has] got great control, but he is ‘The Beast’. He’s a big dude.”
“The Destroyer” then divulged the fact that Lesnar doesn’t like to put too much time into planning out a match:
“When you’re going in there and you’re going to get into it with Brock,” Joe said, “Brock isn’t going to work on a lot of stuff; he’s going to want to go out there and he’s going to want to get down, so like Brock’s not a preplanned dude at all, man, so you’ve just got to go out there and do it. For some people it trips them out, but for me, I’m like, ‘if we’re going to scrap, we’re going to scrap.'”
Joe compared Lesnar to a ‘bigger Kurt Angle’ and noted that his past run-ins with the former Olympic Gold Medalist was a good ‘primer’ for his meeting with Lesnar:
“Like, honestly, a lot of getting ready for Brock was realizing he’s basically a bigger Kurt Angle. But Kurt is… he’s crazy, man. We just had the documentary about him and everything I said is true. If Kurt Angle’s leg fell off, he’d hop twice as fast to make up for the loss of mobility, man. There’s no quit in him. It was kind of a nice primer to get ready for Brock.”
H/T Wrestling Inc. for the transcriptions
