1. Was Lesnar serious about returning to UFC ?
Austin asked Heyman if Lesnar was serious about returning to UFC or was he just trying to get a better deal from WWE. Heyman said Brock started training in a mini-camp in January and was ready to return to UFC if WWE didn’t offer him the right deal.
“The discussion in his head never got to ‘Well, who’s my first opponent going to be?’ The discussion in his head was ‘Whoever they put in front of me, I’m going to be ready.’ I think Brock was very torn by his decision because this run in WWE truly was so enjoyable…conquering The Undertaker’s streak at WrestleMania, the manner in which he decimated John Cena at SummerSlam for the WWE World Championship.
We had a run here, we had a role in the past year that we never truly enjoyed before. And yet, his contract was coming up. On the flip side of that weighing against it was the following: He’s an athlete. He is a hunter and a predator, and he’s always challenged himself that way, and he does view himself as the baddest dude on the planet.
In his fourth fight, he took on Randy Couture – the greatest heavyweight of all-time in UFC, I don’t think anybody would even compare anybody to Couture – and he beat the living crap out of Couture where they had to stop the fight in the second round and award the title to Brock. Brock Lesnar accomplished that with diverticulitis. So now here he is for the first time in his life healthy? What could he accomplish this time, even at 37-years old?”
Heyman said Lesnar loves his children & his children need a father much more than WWE needs Lesnar & that’s the reason why he doesn’t work more WWE dates.
