The Brock Lesnar Return to WWE

The Brock Lesnar Return to WWE

Lesnar was featured in the WWE '12 video game, which was released in October 2011.

Lesnar returned to the WWE on April 2, 2012, on Raw, confronting and delivering an F-5 to John Cena.^[74][75] The following week on Raw,general manager John Laurinaitis revealed that he signed Lesnar to bring "legitimacy" back to the WWE and become the "new face of the WWE". Laurinaitis also announced that Lesnar would face Cena at Extreme Rules with the Extreme Rules stipulation later added to the match.^[76]Lesnar was dominant throughout the match until Cena punched Lesnar in the face with a steel chain wrapped around his fist. Cena then delivered the Attitude Adjustment to Lesnar onto steel steps and Lesnar lost the match.^[77]

The following night on Raw, WWE's Chief Operating Officer Triple H refused to give in to Lesnar's unreasonable contract demands, resulting in Lesnar attacking him and breaking his arm with a kimura lock in storyline.^[78][79]The next week, Paul Heyman made his return as Lesnar's legal representative and claimed that Lesnar was quitting WWE.^[78] He later announced a lawsuit against WWE for breach of contract.^[78][80] At No Way Out in June, Triple H challenged Lesnar, who was not present, to a match at SummerSlam^[81] which Lesnar refused.^[82]Stephanie McMahon would later goad Heyman into accepting the match on Lesnar's behalf on July 23 at Raw 1000.^[83][84] On August 19, at SummerSlam, Lesnar defeated Triple H in a No Disqualification match via submission after once again (kayfabe) breaking his arm with the Kimura.^[85][86] The following night on Raw, Lesnar crowned himself the new King of Kings and touted that he would depart with his victory over Triple H stating that he had conquered everything in the WWE.^[87][88]

Lesnar returned on the January 28, 2013, episode of Raw, confronting Vince McMahon who was about to fire Heyman. Despite Heyman's pleas, Lesnar hit McMahon with an F-5,^[89] breaking McMahon's pelvis in storyline.^[90]The following week, during The Miz's MizTV talk show, Raw Managing Supervisor Vickie Guerrero revealed herself as the one who signed Lesnar to a new contract to impress McMahon.^[91] On the February 25 episode ofRaw, Lesnar once again attempted to attack McMahon, only to get into a brawl with the returning Triple H, which resulted in Lesnar having his head split open and requiring eighteen stitches.^[92] The following week, Triple H issued a challenge to Lesnar, requesting a rematch with him at WrestleMania 29, which Lesnar accepted but only after Triple signed a contract and Lesnar named the stipulation.^[93][94] The following week, after Triple H signed the contract and assaulted Heyman, the stipulation was revealed as No Holds Barred with Triple H's career on the line.^[95] Lesnar ended up losing the match after Triple H hit him with a Pedigree onto the steel steps.^[96] On the April 15 episode of Raw, Lesnar attacked 3MB (Heath Slater, Drew McIntyre, and Jinder Mahal) before Heyman challenged Triple H to face Lesnar in a steel cage match at Extreme Rules,^[97] which Triple H accepted the following week.^[98] On May 19, at the pay-per-view, he defeated Triple H and ended their feud.^[99

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