Triple H On Oba Femi Vs Brock Lesnar: You Witnessed The Changing Of The Guard As The Apex Of Our Business

Triple H comments on Oba Femi and Brock Lesnar’s clash on night two of WrestleMania 42.

On night two of WrestleMania 42, Femi and Lesnar had their long awaited bout, with Oba running through Lesnar in under five minutes, marking a changing of the guard. Following the bout, Lesnar would seemingly retire, leaving his gear in the ring.

While speaking on SportsCenter’s night two post show, Triple H spoke about the bout and Lesnar possibly retiring.

“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, and go to his bus and that is the end of it. So there was not a discussion had after. I will say this, that probably the most famous combat sport athlete of our generation, one of a kind, nobody like Brock Lesnar. But the one thing that nobody gives him credit for is the intelligence of a fighter. They see Brock as this hulking brute, The Beast, right? They see him as all that. There comes a point in time when somebody comes along that’s bigger and badder and just pushes you to a place that you can’t come back from. The smart ones know when that happens and they call it a day. I don’t think that was a planned thing. I think Brock went to the ring. He 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.’ 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 is much of a statement of Oba Femi as it is Brock Lesnar. You witnessed the changing of the guard as the apex of our business.”

Triple H continued, further praising Oba’s performance at Mania.

“When you break it down, and this is the things that you don’t see. It’s what I see in the afternoon when you talk to him. Not in a way that is cocky, not in a way that seems where he’s arrogant. One of the most calm, confident people that I have ever walked up to and spoken to about this. Cool, just as cool as could humanly be walking into a stadium of 55,000 people. We just saw a changing of the guard, I can’t say it enough.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Triple H also spoke about Roman Reigns vs CM Punk. You can read more about that here.

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