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WWE MSG: Brock Lesnar and Big Show’s Rivalry Retrospective

By Rob Wolkenbrod

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Brock Lesnar and Big Show have faced off multiple times before. Check out some of the best of their rivalry that has spanned 13 years.

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Brock Lesnar and Big Show will face off tonight at the WWE Madison Square Garden event at 8 PM ET live on the WWE Network. It will be a rekindling of a feud that has been on and off for the past 13 years.

Back in 2002, Lesnar and Show had a prominent feud on WWE SmackDown when it was its own brand. Lesnar was the WWE Champion and Show looked to challenge him for the belt.

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These two, coincidentally (or maybe not) faced off for the first time inside MSG at the 2002 Survivor Series pay-per-view. It featured Show defeating Lesnar for the WWE Championship, which was the latter’s first pinfall loss. This occurred when Lesnar delivered an F-5 to Show. When he went for the pin, Paul Heyman pulled the referee out of the ring to stop the count. Show would chokeslam Lesnar and win the belt.

Months later, Lesnar would get his payback on Show by defeating him to enter the 2003 Royal Rumble. The Next Big Thing would go onto win the Rumble, headline WrestleMania 19 and become the WWE Champion once again at the event.

Later in 2003, Lesnar and Show’s rivalry was revitalized once again. The Beast Incarnate called out Show after the latter brutally attacked Rey Mysterio. The World’s Largest Athlete would demand a match for Lesnar’s title at WWE Judgement Day 2003 but lost after Mysterio assisted the babyface in retaining his title.

The most famous part of this rivalry would come a short time later that almost every fan knows about.

During an episode of SmackDown, Show and Lesnar had a match. At one point, the two men would climb to the top rope with Lesnar on the offensive side of things. Lesnar would go for a superplex and actually connected with it. But this happened.

This moment goes down as one of the greatest in SmackDown’s history, despite the ring being rigged for this.

After one more title match that also involved Kurt Angle, Lesnar and Show wouldn’t feud for over a decade.

Lesnar made a return to WWE in December of 2013 and wrecked havoc on his first night back. He pummeled Mark Henry, who answered Heyman’s challenge of someone to come out to the ring that disapproved of Lesnar going for the WWE World Heavyweight Champion.

After this happened, Show came out to challenge Lesnar and was seen as a semi-threat to the former UFC Champion. However, their match at WWE Royal Rumble 2014 proved otherwise.

The lasting image fans have of this rivalry was when Lesnar destroyed Show in minutes during the match. He pinned Show and clobbered him with chair shots.

21 months later, Brock Lesnar and Big Show will meet up again in a rivalry that has come full circle. Can these two put on a memorable performance?

"Relive @BrockLesnar and @WWETheBigShow‘s BRUTAL rivalry before tomorrow’s #WWEMSG on @WWENetwork! https://t.co/jSmBzspyCK— WWE (@WWE) October 2, 2015"

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