The UFC made yet another huge addition to the already stacked UFC 200 card in July, when news broke that former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar would return to co-main event the colossal card.
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Following the surprising news this week that Brock Lesnar will return to the UFC this summer for UFC 200, he sat down with ESPN’s SportsCenter to discuss why he’s coming back.
Lesnar, who turns 39 next month, is a former NCAA Division I wrestling champion.
The WWE star does not yet have an opponent but it’s likely that contenders will be queueing up to get a cut of the enormous pay day Lesnar brings with him wherever he goes.
According to MMA Fighting, there is a possibility that Brock Lesnar will be fighting at UFC 200.
Lesnar’s opponent is yet to be named, but this marks his first UFC fight since losing to Alistair Overeem in December 2011 at UFC 141.
“At the top of my career, I wasn’t at the top of my game”, Lesnar said. “It’s billionaire business and I’m big business so why the hell wouldn’t anybody want Brock Lesnar involved”.
UFC spokesman Dave Sholler says professional standards dictate that journalists are to contact the UFC for comment before reporting a story. Clearly, however, Lesnar still has a big itch to throw down in the Octagon again. “Sitting here today, I feel 1,000 percent”. If WWE’s effectively sponsoring some aspect of that show due to the cross-promotion, we could have CM Punk’s UFC debut brought to us by WWE. His record was 5-3 and included a UFC Heavyweight Championship win over Randy Couture at UFC 91.
“I didn’t even tell my wife, I told nobody”.
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It should be pretty interesting to see what the Beast Incarnate will be able to do on his return to the Octagon and then what role he will play at SummerSlam with WWE just a month later.
