For a few brief moments last night, former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar was shown on the big screen at the MGM Grand soaking in the UFC 146 fight card’s all-heavyweight action.
Normally, this kind of thing wouldn’t be newsworthy — but with Brock Lesnar, it’s a different story.
Lesnar is a notorious homebody and knowing that he likely wouldn’t have left his Minnesota compound just to watch a fight live, media at last night’s event questioned UFC president Dana White about his presence.
During the post-fight press conference, White coyly admitted that there was more to Lesnar’s appearance at the event than simple fight spectating. Although, he wouldn’t go into much more detail than to reveal the professional wrestler’s return to action is a possibility.
Following the presser, in the media scrum, White told the gathered reporters that Lesnar had requested a face-to-face meeting with him after he completed his media obligations, but that he couldn’t say for sure what Lesnar wished to discuss.
5-3 as a professional mixed martial artist, Lesnar managed to capture and defend the UFC heavyweight title during his short time in the sport despite repeatedly battling a severe case of diverticulitis. He picked up wins over the likes of Frank Mir, Heath Herring, Randy Couture and Shane Carwin in the UFC before losing two straight to Cain Velasquez and Alistair Overeem.
Following the loss to Overeem – which came via TKO this past December – Lesnar announced his retirement from mixed martial arts competition and shortly thereafter went back to competing as a pro wrestler.
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I thought if Mier won Brock would come back and kick his ass again,but now that he lost I don’t see any reason for him to come back.All the top contenders would beat him.
think he would need a new gym to have a chance
he has his own gym, he spent around a million dollars adding it to his “compound” and it’s where a lot of Deathclutch fighters train.
Well Cain would be next in line for title shot over him. I’d love to see mark hunt beat up lesnar
I wouldn’t doubt that any top heavyweight could beat Brock given the shape he’s been in and how he seems to be fighting scared in his last 2 fights, but nobody has ever survived taking a direct shot from Brock, with the exception of Mir who got that heel hook on him afterwards.
It was a kneebar.
Lesnar has the wrestling skills. Lesnar is an accomplished amateur wrestler, winning the 2000 NCAA heavyweight wrestling championship and placing second in 1999, losing in the finals to 1999 world freestyle wrestling champion stephen neal. But what Lesnar lacks is standup, his standup is awful, they need to bring in someone who is really good with hands and teach lesnar how to punch better. He doesn’t have much power in his hands and in stand up he gets torn apart, examples shane, cain, alistair. Perhaps a professional boxer or pro boxing coach.
Maybe the guy needs a new camp as well. anyways, last time I saw him in WWE he has lost most of his muscle and looked out of shape. If he does get back into MMA he needs to take this more seriously than he has in the past.
Strikeforce heavyweight title shot. He’s a big name, but could use a couple rounds in the “farm league” to get some confidence back, and hone his skillset.
After I heard the news that Cormier won, I thought “could you imagine if Brock came back”.
Lesnar is constantly criticized and underrated for his involvement in the WWE but with some more grooming and experience he could easily be champ again this guy is NOT to be taken lightly.
John McGowan are u from Ark?
I’d love to see Lesnar but just not for the belt anytime soon unless he happens to put together a few wins…I like watching fights just for matchup standpoints even if they aren’t really fixing to be in line for title shots.
I’d like to see Lesnar vs Nelson, Nogueira, Barnett, Bigfoot are all interesting matchups I’d like to see
Brock vs big nog in soccer stadium in brazil. That way Brock gets the easy tune up fight and is a big draw (likely not). The whole thing had wwe stink all over it. Any wwe fans know whether Brock is doing the fake stuff anymore?
I know he signed a contract with wwe but I don’t know how long it was supposed to be. Apparently he quit a few weeks ago but as Superman says it was a part of the storyline so who knows if he’s still with wwe or not.
Fyi – Lesnar had colon ripped out of his body a year before fighting a juiced up monster.. He lost to 2 of the best in the division, cut the dude some slack if you have half a brain.
that is the truth . people want to just bad mouth fighters .
Amen
He is away from the WWE but it is pretty much apart of the storyline that he is away. so to answer the question… yes and no lol
Brock is still a top 5 heavyweight. Been amazing to see what he could have down had he went straight to mma instead of WWE.
Seen on pther sites. Mir vs lesner at 149
Really? Mir looked pretty beat up, with a medical suspension it doesn’t leave a lot of time to train.
a rubber match? don’t kno if i’ll watch that rerun!
Lesnar is only 2 fights above .500; honestly, when he does return it will probably be against a gatekeeper type, or just go to Strikeforce as 8pack wisely suggested…
And yes his striking and his cardio need work. The division has evolved even in his short tenure beyond all that early-fight King Konging/Donkey Konging whatever that he loves to try to do…
Just my opinion but brock is too big a draw for SF and I cant imagine Dana would give up the ppv $.
A good point, but I don’t see him jumping into the deep end of UFC’s division right way either…
Only fighter in UFC history to top 1,000,000 PPV buys 3x, and his lowest buy rate ever was his first fight and that was 600,000 buys… Only fighter with a comparable buyrate average over their career is GSP… so yeah…