His interviews upon re-signing with WWE last year reflect that mindset:
“I love what I’m doing. I work a limited schedule. I work part-time with full-time pay, like everybody wants, which you can’t have – just me. So, I’m happy.” – ESPN, March 2015
Remember his rant to camera in the UFC after beating
Frank Mir in the Octagon? Lesnar spat on the UFC’s sponsorship from Bud Light and endorsed Coors Light instead, because he wasn’t getting a cut of the Bud Light sponsorship deal.
Compare and contrast all that to John Cena, who started around the same time he did and is a few month older than Lesnar. When he returns from injury, Cena will be back on a full-time schedule, one he’s kept to for nearly fourteen years – in fact, Cena works longer weeks than most WWE wrestlers.
Scuttlebutt (like gossip with a fat wallet) says that John Cena is the highest-paid wrestler in the world. Since he’s probably the hardest working man in wrestling, few would argue that he doesn’t deserve every penny he makes.
Lesnar is another matter. For years, he’s claimed to be all about competition, all about proving himself… but that’s clearly horse puckey. The man just wants to get paid – he’d turn up and do Hector Guerrero’s Gobbledy Gooker routine if it counted as one of his contracted appearances.