Johnny Knoxville Revisits the Night Brock Lesnar Slammed Wee Man Onto a Table

A wild backstage story from January 2022 is getting fresh attention after Johnny Knoxville brought it up on Steve-O’s Wild Ride podcast. According to Knoxville, the Jackass crew crossed paths with Brock Lesnar at a dinner — and things escalated quickly once Wee Man started talking trash.

As Knoxville tells it, Lesnar wasn’t content to let the trash talk slide. He walked over, picked Wee Man up, and slammed him straight onto a table. Knoxville’s reaction? Pure joy. “I was so happy,” he said, clearly delighted that his friend and longtime Jackass collaborator had found himself on the wrong end of one of the most physically imposing men on the planet.

The story is a natural fit for the Jackass universe — a crew that has built an entire career out of absorbing punishment in increasingly creative ways. Having Wee Man get ragdolled by Brock Lesnar at a dinner, of all places, feels almost like an unscripted bit that could have made the final cut of any of their films.

Lesnar, of course, was active in WWE around that time, in the middle of a high-profile program that would eventually lead to WrestleMania 38, where Knoxville himself famously competed in an Anything Goes Match. The two worlds clearly had more overlap behind the scenes than fans may have realized.

Knoxville’s retelling on Steve-O’s podcast is a reminder that sometimes the most entertaining wrestling moments never make it to television.