Brock Lesnar
WWE
The one fight sports activities venue through which it is possible for you to to catch Brock Lesnar from right here on out is a wrestling ring.
The 44-year-old former UFC heavyweight champion and present WWE champion stated his time in MMA is over.
“That door is closed,” Lesnar confirmed to The Submit forward of defending his title at WWE’s stay occasion at Madison Sq. Backyard on Saturday night time. “You realize what, Dana White, the Fertitta brothers [Lorenzo and Frank] have been distinctive to me.”
Paul Heyman, Lesnar’s pal and longtime on-screen advocate in WWE, alluded to the tip of the athlete’s MMA profession final September in an interview with Z100, saying Lesnar was extra prone to “have a shootout in soccer with [Lionel] Messi” then return to the cage.
Lesnar’s final MMA battle was towards Mark Hunt at UFC 200 in July 2016. His win was overturned to a no contest after he failed a drug check for the banned substance clomiphene, an estrogen blocker. Lesnar, who received the UFC heavyweight championship in 2008, completed his profession 5-3-0 (1 NC). The promotion’s present title holder in that weight class is 35-year-old Francis Ngannou.
“I’m too outdated,” Lesnar stated. “That’s a younger man’s sport, and that door is closed. I’m Brock Lesnar, the WWE Celebrity.”
Lesnar, who is about to face WWE Common champion Roman Reigns in a unification match on Evening 2 of WrestleMania 38 on April 3 at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, will likely be making his first look at Madison Sq. Backyard since March 2018. Whereas he doesn’t carry out at non-televised occasions too usually, he has made it some extent to make it to the Backyard through the years — partly due to the that means the constructing has to WWE chairman Vince McMahon.
“I’ve developed a relationship with Vince about it, and I like New York, and I like coming to the town, and I like coming down and placing some ass whoopings down,” Lesnar stated. “I get pleasure from it. I like to come back and eat a very good steak within the metropolis, and the Backyard has a sentimental impact on me too.”
These ass whoopings will simply not be coming within the octagon.
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