{"id":148785,"date":"2025-12-16T09:02:53","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/?p=148785"},"modified":"2025-12-16T09:02:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T14:02:53","slug":"brock-lesnars-wrestlemania-42-opponent-reportedly-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/12\/16\/brock-lesnars-wrestlemania-42-opponent-reportedly-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Lesnar&#8217;s WrestleMania 42 Opponent Reportedly Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brock Lesnar is reportedly working with Gunther at WrestleMania 42.<\/p>\n<p>The Beast Incarnate returned to WWE earlier this year at SummerSlam, attacking John Cena. He&#8217;s since worked WrestlePalooza and Survivor Series 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Lesnar is a big name for WWE, and now that he&#8217;s back, fans can expect him to work the company&#8217;s major premium live events, such as Royal Rumble and WrestleMania.<\/p>\n<h2>Brock Lesnar Was Originally Going To Face Bron Breakker At WrestleMania 42<\/h2>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"FULL MATCH: John Cena vs. Brock Lesnar: Wrestlepalooza 2025\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/KbeU6ZQhvzs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>According to <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=T68D_B5D2PE\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Self Made Pro<\/a>, Brock Lesnar is currently scheduled to face Gunther at WrestleMania next year in Las Vegas (h\/t <a  href=\"https:\/\/www.ringsidenews.com\/wwes-current-plans-brock-lesnar-wrestlemania-42-revealed\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ringside News<\/a>). His original opponent for the event was Bron Breakker, but it seems like WWE is keeping him for a title match against CM Punk next year.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>\u201cGUNTHER is definitely working Brock at WrestleMania. It was originally going to be Bron Breakker versus Brock, but now that Bron Breakker is set to get a title match there, Brock is facing GUNTHER.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Gunther recently worked Saturday Night&#8217;s Main Event, where he defeated John Cena and retired him. This earned WWE massive backlash from fans, which <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/2025\/12\/16\/wwe-reportedly-blindsided-by-fan-reaction-to-gunther-vs-john-cenas-finish\/\" target=\"_self\">blindsided them<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brock Lesnar vs Gunther has been a dream match for many years now. Both wrestlers were rumored to face each other at WrestleMania 40, but these plans fell through after the Janel Grant lawsuit was filed.<\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Header photo \u2013 WWE \u2013<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stay tuned to the <\/span><\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/\" target=\"_self\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last Word on Pro Wrestling<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> for more on Brock Lesnar a<\/span><\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nd other stories from around the world of wrestling, as they develop. You can always count on LWOPW to be on top of the major news in the wrestling world, as well as to provide you with analysis, previews, videos, interviews, and editorials on the wrestling world. You can check out WWE programming on<\/span><\/i><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.netflix.com\/title\/81788927\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Netflix<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Raw), <\/span><\/i><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.usanetwork.com\/wwe-friday-night-smackdown\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">USA Network<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (SmackDown), <\/span><\/i><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.cwtv.com\/shows\/wwe-nxt\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The CW<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (NXT), and <\/span><\/i><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.peacocktv.com\/watch\/home\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Peacock<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (archives and premium live event streaming). You can follow WWE on social media and relive top moments on <\/span><\/i><a  href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@WWE\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">YouTube<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brock Lesnar is reportedly working with Gunther at WrestleMania 42. The Beast Incarnate returned to WWE earlier this year at SummerSlam, attacking John Cena. He&#8217;s since worked WrestlePalooza and Survivor Series 2025. Lesnar is a big name for WWE, and now that he&#8217;s back, fans can expect him to work the company&#8217;s major premium live [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5645,"featured_media":148786,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12,3],"tags":[57,8238,47],"class_list":["post-148785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-wwe-universe","tag-brock-lesnar","tag-gunther","tag-wwe"],"modified_by":"Ishaan Sharma","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=148785"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148789,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148785\/revisions\/148789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/prowrestling\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}