Nunzio Looks Back At Slapping Brock Lesnar, Being Speared By Goldberg

Nunzio took one of Goldberg’s most memorable spears, and he recently recalled the moment as well as his slap of Brock Lesnar. The WWE alumnus took one of Goldberg’s most brutal spears during the 2004 Royal Rumble that left him destroyed during the match. He also had a memorable moment when he slapped Brock Lesnar during a May 2003 episode of Smackdown, which resulted in Lesnar turning to stare at him before Nunzio ran away.

Nunzio was asked during his appearance on Insight With Chris Van Vliet about those two moments, and he recalled how they came about. You can see the highlights below:

On Getting Speared By Goldberg At the Royal Rumble:

“He did mention that in an interview he was doing. Somebody asked him about some of the best spears, he mentioned me in it. I knew it was coming, I didn’t know how he was going to hit me because I never took it before, so one thing I knew I didn’t want to keep my feet planted. As he’s coming, I wanted to kind of jump a little bit to get off my feet so he could take me into the air compared to me having my feet planted and just going back, so I didn’t know how to take it; I just took it. That was it.”

On Slapping Brock Lesnar:

“We were doing something with The Big Show and stuff, and at that time, I think they had the FBI going after everybody because we were a little group. Coming back to what I’m saying. Good thing I was in that group because it made me do all these different scenarios that if I was in the cruiserweight division, I would never have been able to do. We were doing some shows with him, I forgot exactly how it came about, but that promo came up, and I don’t know what it really led to. I was poking him, and they said, ‘Slap him in the back of the head.’ I’m not slapping the back of the head. I slapped him in his back. That’s what made the loud noise.

“I didn’t slap him in the head, and I knew Brock, he was very good to me. But because the writer was telling me to do it. I said, ‘No, I’m not slapping him in the back of the head.’ So I went for the back and I hit him hard, and it made a huge noise, and he was okay with it. That’s when we locked him in. Another story, if you watch it, when Chuck drove the high-low, he f*cking broke the wall. Vince had to pay for that because Chuck don’t know how to drive a high-low. So we were trying to lock him in, and he drove through the wall. He broke that wall, which Vince McMahon unfortunately had to pay for.”