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Brock Lesnar is officially retired from WWE.
Earlier this year, Lesnar sparked retirement rumors when he took off his wrestling gear and left it on the mat at WrestleMania.
An emotional Brock Lesnar taking off his gloves and boots in the ring after losing to Oba Femi. 😮 #WrestleMania pic.twitter.com/kfBS4GTAac
— Netflix Sports (@netflixsports) April 19, 2026
After WrestleMania, Lesnar went on to wrestle in this past weekend’s WrestleMania, in his home state of Minnesota.
Lesnar went on to lose his match against Oba Femi, and went on the Pat McAfee show to announce that he was done with wrestling.
“I’m here today to do this interview, to let the world and everybody know that I am retired, and I wanted to say a big thank you to everybody.Saturday was a very emotional day for me.”
“It’s kind of weird because I did, my heart, when Oba Femi slammed me at WrestleMania, I was like, I can’t do this again. I was like, I think I’m done. But the business and I still had some fuel in the tank. But Saturday for Brock Lesnar, that’s it.”
“That’s it for me in the squared circle and for everything else, too.”
“I’m here today to let the world know that I am retired and I wanted to say a big thank you to everybody..
That was it for me on Saturday and I’m very grateful for everything” ~ @BrockLesnar #PMSLive pic.twitter.com/riY8YLZpPO
— Pat McAfee (@PatMcAfeeShow) August 4, 2026
An emotional Lesnar went on to thank everyone involved in his career.
“I thank God and everybody that supported me I want to thank all my coaches and I want to especially say to the to the little kids I was just a farm kid with a bunch of lint in my pocket and I had big dreams and I just worked.”