Breaking news: Brock Lesnar announces that he is retired from wrestling following SummerSlam 2026

Saturday was a very emotional day for me. It kind of weird because I did—my heart, when Oba Femi slammed me at WrestleMania, I was like, I can’t do this again. I was like, I think I’m done. But Saturday for Brock Lesnar, that’s it. That’s it for me in the squared circle and for everything else too.

I just want to give a shout out to everybody on this universe that has followed me from since I was a little kid all the way till Saturday. I was just a farm kid from South Dakota with a big dream and a big heart and a big-ass chip on my shoulder.

I’m just grateful, grateful to be 49 years old and to have to be able to do what I did in this lifetime. I thank God and everybody that supported me. I want to thank all my coaches and I want to especially say to the little kids.

I was just a farm kid with a bunch of lint in my pocket, and I had big dreams, and I just worked. And I think a lot of people, a lot of people nowadays with social media platform athletes are doing things, but they leave out the hard work.

And if kids just stay focused on work and putting the time in, good things will happen.”