WWE promoter Paul Heyman recently made an appearance on UFC on Fox’s Fight Society podcast. In the interview, the promoter claimed that it isn’t time to count out Brock Lesnar quite yet. The former UFC heavyweight champion may make a return to MMA yet.
In the interview, as transcribed by Fox Sports, Heyman said
“Brock is in his heart a trained competitor. Now whether that means he’s going to look at this environment and say ‘you know what, I didn’t make the Vikings team in 2004 but I bet in 2017 I can and just because I can I’m going to just to show people that I want to and I take it’. Because when we named him the conqueror, that’s what he is. He’s a legit conqueror. You put a task before him and he conquers it.
“I really can’t tell you that it’s out of the realm of possibility of Brock Lesnar to say ‘I’m taking a few months off from WWE, I want to see how many homeruns I can hit for the Minnesota Twins’. People may laugh at that, but it’s the same people that laughed at him in 2004 when he went for the Vikings camp and he was the last person cut and that’s with a broken jaw, a fractured pelvis and diverticulitis. I think what’s next for Brock Lesnar besides what’s happening in WWE. Could it be UFC? Could it be another sport? I think it’s something he’s going to look at and say ‘I bet no one thinks I can do that, all right I’m going to conquer that’.”
Lesnar has not fought inside the octagon since his bout against Mark Hunt at UFC 200. The bout was turned to a no contest, due to a failed USADA test by the former champion.
