I introduced Brock to WWE chairman and CEO Vince McMahon

I introduced Brock to WWE chairman and CEO Vince McMahon in Minneapolis. Vince had never met him, never laid eyes on him. Brisco and I had been recruiting him for quite a while. It was at the end of his senior year, so we knew we were gonna get him. If we didn’t it was gonna be hell to pay for all of us.

We were at a TV taping in Minneapolis in 2000, and Vince was walking out to get into his position at broadcast. He sees Brock talking to Brisco and some of the other guys.

I’ll never forget this — he did a double take. If he was drinking coffee, he’d have done a spit take. He turned around, and with that Vince McMahon walk that Conor McGregor loves to emulate, Vince strided over to Brock and he introduced himself.

I think Brisco told Brock when Vince was coming over, “This is the big boss. Be on your best behavior.” That type of deal. Not that he wouldn’t have been. But he never met Vince. Brock was not a wrestling fan. He didn’t watch wrestling on TV. He didn’t have a clue who Vince McMahon was in that era. He knows him very well now. They’re multiple millionaires together.

After Vince met him, he said, “My god, he’s a viking.” I said to Vince, “I was thinking more like a Hereford bull.” Then Vince started quizzing me about cattle: “What’s a Hereford bull?” Never mind. Vince was amazed at the athletic specimen that Brock Lesnar was and is. – Jim Ross