Former WWE Star Says Brock Lesnar Went To Bat For Him With Vince McMahon

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A former WWE star has recalled the rise of the OVW ‘golden class’ of 2002, including Brock Lesnar going to bat for him with Vince McMahon.

Many WWE fans cite OVW’s class of 2002 as perhaps the greatest WWE developmental class in history.

The class saw John Cena, Brock Lesnar, Randy Orton, Batista and Shelton Benjamin all make the move up from OVW to Raw or SmackDown, becoming some of the biggest names of their generation.

Bull Buchanan Recalls Rise Of OVW’s ‘Golden Class’

Speaking on Rewind Recap Relive, former WWE star Bull Buchanan recalled returning to OVW shortly after WWE had purchased WCW, and getting to witness the rise of the OVW golden class.

He said:

“After we bought WCW, a lot of us went off the road, for obvious reasons, they had to get some of those guys over too. I actually called JR and said ‘I can sit here and collect a check or I can go down there in OVW and figure out something new with Jimmy (Cornette)’ and he said ‘take off’.

“So I went back down there and that was when the golden class was there. I didn’t get to work with every one of them, but I got to work around them, see them in training.

“I had seen Cena out in California, he would do dark matches out there and of course looked like a million dollars, he would do a dark match then we’d come back in a couple of months and he’d do another dark match, and you could see he was getting better and better each time.

“But when he got to Ohio Valley I got to hear him on the mic, and yeah, unless they totally dropped the ball on him.

“Looking at all of them, Randy had the pedigree, just to me the pure worker. He’s had probably the most longevity, he’s been in the trenches, he’s one of the boys, he’s been in the trenches the whole time.

“Batista was just ungodly looking, so was Cena but Batista, go back and look at him, you don’t need me to describe him.

“Shelton Benjamin doesn’t get enough credit, Shelton’s one of if not the best athlete I’ve ever seen in my life, I’m sure there’s better ones out there but I ain’t seen them. Just the stuff he could do in normal every day life.

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Brock Lesnar Went To Bat For Bull Buchanan With Vince McMahon

When speaking about Brock Lesnar specifically, Bull would praise Brock, recalling Lesnar going to bat for him with Vince McMahon after Bull’s alliance with John Cena had broken up.

He said:

“Then of course Brock. The day they broke me and Cena up, I kind of saw the writing on the wall. A couple of people came to me and said ‘hey listen, I want you to know, I went to Vince and said you need to find something else to do with him’, and one of those guys was Brock. Brock Lesnar.

“It was a good time watching those guys start their careers out and then being able to sit back as I have over the last 20 years and see how it turned out for them. Every one of them is a star.”

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• Vince McMahon
• Brock Lesnar
• OVW
• bull buchanan
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