Brock Lesnar has spent more than two decades as one of WWE’s most dominant forces, but the latest ranking of his WrestleMania matches suggests the 48-year-old may be edging toward the end of the road. The list places his encounter with Goldberg at WrestleMania 20 at the bottom and points to a possible late-career outing against Oba Femi at WrestleMania 42.
That 2004 match with Goldberg, billed under the glare of Steve Austin as guest referee, has aged badly enough to sit last in the ranking. Goldberg pinned Lesnar that night, a finish that never matched the level of anticipation around two of WWE’s biggest names. The piece treats it as the low point in a career that otherwise produced plenty of WrestleMania spectacle.
Lesnar has had prominent matches at a dozen WrestleManias, and the ranking makes clear why so many of them still stand out. At WrestleMania 34 in 2018, he entered as WWE Universal Champion and pinned Roman Reigns after multiple kick-outs from finishers, a brute-force win that fit his image. One year later, at WrestleMania 35, Seth Rollins needed a low blow, three Curb Stomps and a final pin to finish Lesnar in a match that was over in minutes after the bell.
WrestleMania 32 in 2016 gave Lesnar another kind of showcase. His Street Fight with Dean Ambrose ended with an F-5 onto a pile of chairs, a finish that leaned into the violence that made his matches feel different from the rest of the card. Then came WrestleMania 39 in 2023, where he defeated Omos with German suplexes and an F-5 in what the ranking describes as an above-average showcase rather than one of his all-time greats.
That range is what has defined Lesnar’s WrestleMania run: the shock of the bad, the force of the classic, and the occasional reminder that he could still overpower almost anyone put in front of him. The new ranking is not a match result so much as a career audit, and it frames WrestleMania 42 as a possible final swing for a wrestler who has already been through nearly every version of the company’s biggest stage.
The tension now is not whether Lesnar has lost his place in WWE history. It is whether the next chapter happens at all, and whether that chapter could include Oba Femi. If it does, it would be read less as a return than as a late stop on a long descent toward the finish line, the kind of appearance that settles a legacy rather than builds one. For Lesnar, that is the story now.
