Brock Lesnar recently appeared as a guest on The Pat McAfee Show for an in-depth interview covering all things pro wrestling.
During his appearance on the popular podcast, "The Beast Incarnate" gave his thoughts on the toll that being a WWE Superstar takes on him mentally, growing up in a family full of fighters in South Dakota and more.
Featured below are some of the highlights from the interview where he touches on these topics with his thoughts.
On the mental toll that being a WWE Superstar takes on him: "I have a total crash after being in front of audience. Like, I go hibernate in Saskatchewan. Like, my downers – like, the anxiety from that – like, takes me a few days to recover. Forever, yeah it’s been that way. Like, I used to be on – have big wrestling matches in high school and – like, to come down from big arenas it’s like, I get nervous around people and I’m awkward as fuck. Yeah, but I’m putting on a show. Like I’ve got to go through all this thing, and that’s just who I am. And I like to go and just get away from the people. And it’s not that I dislike people. I mean, it’s not been that way, but some people, yeah, I don’t like. I just like to be left the fuck alone, and because I’m like – like, I’m in front of an audience then it just exhausts me. And so I’ve got to go and like, recharge up.”
On how he comes from a family of fighters in Webster, South Dakota: “The Lesnar family were fighters, and so I grew up six years younger than my two older brothers who were getting out of jail on Monday mornings to go to school because of street fights and you know. So I grew up with that stigma. We went to street dances, I went there to fight. That’s what we did. That’s what I did, anyway. And then it was girls after that and maybe I’ll have a couple of drinks."
