{"id":1343,"date":"2015-10-22T13:35:51","date_gmt":"2015-10-22T18:35:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2015-10-22T13:39:28","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T18:39:28","slug":"the-mystery-of-brock-lesnars-shooting-star-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2015\/10\/22\/the-mystery-of-brock-lesnars-shooting-star-press\/","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of Brock Lesnar&#8217;s WM19 Shooting Star Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3599520508\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Who is responsible for Brock Lesnar&#8217;s infamous Shooting Star Press in the WrestleMania 19 main event\u00a0when Lesnar injured his neck? Well, it depends on who you ask.<\/p>\n<p>Lesnar re-opened the mystery during his appearance on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/index.php\/2015\/10\/20\/kellers-detailed-recap-of-austin-interviewing-lesnar-on-wwe-network\/\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Stone Cold&#8221; Steve Austin&#8217;s live WWE Network podcast on Monday<\/a>. Asked who made the call for him to perform the move, Lesnar said he would prefer not to say, but he said he was talked into the move.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was talked into doing it. I wasn\u2019t comfortable doing it. I\u2019m not going to say who talked me into doing it. I had done it before and I was young and stupid at the time. Could I do it? Should I have done it? No. Was the person who was telling me to do it \u2013 said it would be a WrestleMania Moment. Boy, why not have a WrestleMania Moment. I sure did, I guess,&#8221; Lesnar told Stone Cold.<\/p>\n<p>All signs point to former VP of Talent Relations John Laurinaitis making the call. However,\u00a0Lesnar&#8217;s opponent in the WM19 main event, Kurt Angle, says it was his idea.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That was my idea, I will take responsibility for Brock doing that,&#8221; Angle told <a href=\"http:\/\/wrestlinginc.com\/wi\/news\/2015\/1022\/602963\/big-update-on-who-asked-brock-lesnar-to-do-the-shooting-star\/\" target=\"_blank\">WrestlingInc.com in a new interview<\/a>. &#8220;At the time I had to leave [WWE], it really wasn&#8217;t in the plans for me to drop the title at WrestleMania. I had suffered a broken neck and was going to have surgery, so I wanted to do something that people would remember.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I asked Brock to do the Shooting Star Press, which he had done many times in OVW. I just thought it would be a great way to end the show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the Wrestling Observer, Lesnar performed the move during his OVW run in 2002 and was told by management to save it for a big moment on main TV.<\/p>\n<p>By the time WM19 came around in 2003, Lesnar was heavier, making the move more difficult for a man of Lesnar&#8217;s size. And, it&#8217;s worth considering that Lesnar was still a rookie and wrestling\u00a0his first WrestleMania match.<\/p><div id=\"pwtor-1992250918\" class=\"pwtor-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280 __336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_test_300x250\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Unfortunately Brock came up short. I think I was a little too far away, and Brock kinda double guessed before he went. If you ever watched the tape, you&#8217;ll see he goes, then he kinda stops, then he says screw it. So that hesitation caused him to land on his head,&#8221; Angle added to WrestlingInc&#8217;s Raj Giri.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But that was my call, I know that Brock didn&#8217;t necessarily want to do it, but we did practice it earlier in the week and he was doing it perfectly well, he just got in a situation in the match where he kinda slipped a little bit and that was it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The conclusion is there were a lot of cooks in the kitchen\u00a0contributing to\u00a0Lesnar&#8217;s\u00a0move, thinking he would be able to pull off the same move he attempted on a smaller scale in OVW.<\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for Lesnar, his first WrestleMania match was not his last one after avoiding a serious neck injury. 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