After Brock Lesnar defeated Roman Reigns to retain the Universal Championship at WrestleMania 34 in 2018, he stormed backstage and flung the title across the room at Vince McMahon, who was sitting at a monitor in Gorilla Position.
Not too surprisingly, the incident gained a lot of attention, not least because nobody really seemed to know why The Beast reacted the way he did.
Now, former WWE agent "Road Dogg" Brian James has told his side of the story during the latest episode of his podcast.
“I don’t really know (why Brock Lesnar was upset after the WrestleMania 34 main event). I honestly don’t. What I remember of that is I almost got hit by the title. It (WWE 24 documentary) showed he threw the title across me to Vince (McMahon) and everybody kind of stood up like, what the crap was that? And so, I don’t know. I didn’t really know what went down then, and I wasn’t about to go after Brock to find out… I remember Shane (McMahon) being in Gorilla and being hot and trying to go after Brock and I said, ‘Hey, let’s let it go, let it go. Let’s just stay right here and all keep our teeth.’”
“So he was aiming for Vince (Road Dogg laughed) and he’s a good aim. He’s got a good aim, good throw, he had a good rotation on the title. But one of those straps almost caught me right in the mug… He aimed it to Vince. He didn’t aim it at him, you know what I mean? It landed in front of him. It was safe. He could’ve hit all of us if he wanted to… I actually didn’t know if it was a work or not because nobody said a word and nobody did anything. Sometimes they would do things and then laugh with each other later and stuff and then you go like, oh, I almost got killed in the crossfire there. I don’t appreciate that. So you don’t know, I don’t know. I do remember Shane was hot and wanted to go and I was like, ‘Ah.’ So he ended up going so maybe he knew something I didn’t know.”
Probably for the best that Shane didn't go after Brock!
Many believe Vince and Lesnar were actually working everyone, but we may never know the truth.