Jim Ross Explains Why Brock Lesnar’s WWE Return Was Inevitable

 AEW announcer and Senior Advisor “Good Ole’ J.R.” Jim Ross took to an episode of his “Grilling Jr” podcast to talk about a number of topics, including whether he thought Brock Lesnar would return to WWE after leaving in 2004.

Ross said, “Yeah of course, absolutely. What else is he going to do to make that kind of money? Nothing. What are your options? Oh, you don’t have any, do you? The Vikings tried you… He was amazing, but not quite good enough to make the 53-man roster. So, but what are your options? Do you have Plan B? What he wanted to do is be a rancher, farmer. And to do that, you gotta have land, and they don’t give land away. So I knew he’d be back. [Gerald] Briscoe knew he’d be back. That’s why I made sure that Brisco and him talked. You know, keep the connection alive. Make sure there’s a pulse there on both sides, so that when everybody’s feelings have been addressed, then we can get started. Because it didn’t take a genius to see that Brock Lesnar was money. I knew that when he was a college student, when Briscoe and I first started recruiting 

 we made deals with that wrestling coach. We were going to sign Brock after his junior year at Minnesota. And part of our deal with their wrestling coach was that we would not sign him. They didn’t have NIL and all that s**t then. If we had one, we’d probably put him on an NIL contract, if it had existed. So, you know, we’ve made our deal, and we kept our word. And I think — I’m not sure, but he was on the road to being going to training camps, going to Louisville I think, within hours of fulfilling his amateur wrestling commitment. So my point is — long, really stupid, long answer — what are your options? And if your options are limited, then don’t cut the best option you got. Don’t slap it in the face. Be smart.”