WWE Legend Brock Lesnar Announces Retirement Days After SummerSlam Loss

• WWE icon Brock Lesnar confirmed he’s retired during an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show on Tuesday, Aug. 4
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• Lesnar said he’s “here today to do this interview to let the world and everybody know that I am retired” and thanked everyone who has supported him

• “I was a little farm kid with a bunch of lint in my pocket. I had big dreams and I just worked,” Lesnar told McAfee

WWE icon Brock Lesnar confirmed he’s retired during an appearance on The Pat McAfee Show on Tuesday, Aug. 4

“I was a little farm kid with a bunch of lint in my pocket. I had big dreams and I just worked,” Lesnar told McAfee

WWE legend Brock Lesnar has retired.

Lesnar, 49, confirmed on The Pat McAfee Show on Tuesday, Aug. 4 that his loss to Oba Femi in the 2026 WWE SummerSlam on Saturday, Aug. 1 was the final match of his storied career.

“I’m here today to do this interview to let the world and everybody know that I am retired,” Lesnar told McAfee and his co-hosts.

“Saturday was a very emotional day for me, it was kind of weird,” he added, noting he had considered retirement previously when Femi “slammed me at WrestleMania” in April. “I said, ‘I can’t do this anymore. I think I’m done.’ But the business called, and I still had some fuel in the tank. Saturday, for Brock Lesnar, that’s it. That’s it for me in the squared circle and everything else.”

Brock Lesnar and Oba Femi at SummerSlam
Credit: Georgiana Dallas/WWE/Getty

Lesnar went on to thank all of his supporters and colleagues over the years. “I just want to give a shoutout to everybody on this universe that has followed me from since I was a little kid all the way until 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,” he continued. “And I’m just 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.”

Lesnar added a message to his young fans: “I want to say to the little kids, I was a little farm kid with a bunch of lint in my pocket. I had big dreams and I just worked. I think a lot of people with social media platforms see athletes doing things and they leave out the hard work. If kids just stay focused on work and putting the time in, good things will happen.”

Brock Lesnar on May 31, 2026 in Italy
Credit: Joe Maher/WWE/Getty

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Lesnar is a seven-time WWE world heavyweight champion and a three-time WWE universal champion. He pursued professional football for a brief stint after leaving the WWE in 2004, and worked out with the Minnesota Vikings at training camp, but never played a regular season game in the league.

His daughter, Mya Lesner, is now pursuing her own career. In August 2025, she went viral when she showed off her impressive physique on social media.

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