Former WWE star recalls Brock Lesnar segment that ended with Vince McMahon paying for building damages in forklift accident

Nunzio recalled his backstage segment with Brock Lesnar 23 years ago on an edition of WWE SmackDown which culminated in Chuck Palumbo accidentally damaging the building. 

In a May edition of SmackDown in 2003, Nunzio confronted the then-WWE World Champion Brock Lesnar backstage for attacking his allies, The Big Show and A-Train. He ambushed Lesnar with some assistance from Chuck Palumbo who operated a forklift but that ended up in Vince McMahon having to pay for repairing the wall after he broke it with the forklift. Nunzio detailed the WWE incident with Chris Van Vliet on the Insight Podcast. 

“We were doing something with The Big Show and stuff, and at that time, I think they had the FBI (Full Blooded Italians) 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,” said Nunzio. “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 on 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.”