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Brock Lesnar UFC rumors

<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en"><p>Damn, per <a href="https://twitter.com/arielhelwani">@arielhelwani</a> Dana and Lorenzo are having a presser in the middle of prelims. Rumor is Fedor vs. Brock is being announced.</p>— MiddleEasy (@MiddleEasy) <a href="https://twitter.com/MiddleEasy/statuses/417047338868154368">December 28, 2013</a></blockquote>
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Both fighters are retired but this fight would be huge

I loved following Lesnar in the Ufc, but if he goes back he will be in Scottish terms fucking fucked

What became of this?

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Originally Posted by Savior (Post 4352073)

What became of this?

Supposedly it was a gag done by the WWE or whoever the source was to fool people and to make Lesnar's recent appearance on RAW become a bigger surprise.

If he actually goes to UFC, its not until after Mania since his current contract ends around that time.

How many people still care about Brock vs Fedor at this point?

How many people even care about Fedor?

2 big mother fuckers beating the shit out each other will always draw something.

Brock has a reason why he lost his last few fights but Fedor just sucks.

Brock would bury and devastate Fedor. Brock was the better fighter even before they retired and Fedor was afraid to come to the UFC when Brock was in there. Brock may not be the best in the world, but he would crush Fedor today.

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Originally Posted by Savior (Post 4352073)

What became of this?

Nothing as of yet.

The "big" rumor was that UFC signed Fedor and they would have a supermatch.

The other, more likely rumor, was that Shane Carwin was coming out of retirement to face Lesnar. The first time they fought at UFC 117 Carwin was undefeated and had won every fight by first round KO. He rocked Lesnar bad, and got him down and pounded his face for 5 minutes. Being an elite wrestler, Brock was able to keep his hip moving and utilized butterfly guard very well. The ref, Josh Rosenthal (WAR), was smart enough and didn't stop the fight. At the beginning of the 2nd, Carwin was gassed bad and Lesnar was able to get a deep double, ended up on top, and finished it with a high level arm triangle choke. It was a HUGE fight (prolly the biggest heavyweight fight in UFC history at the time) and both guys are currently retired.

IF Lesnar comes back, I see it for this rematch as a one off "super" fight.

I watched that Carwin fight. Loved the energy in that room...at that Buffalo Wild Wings, I should clarify.

I watched that one at a Hooters on the Mississippi gulf coast because I was there to work on a casino commercial. It was the best time I've ever had watching an event in pubic like that.

Okay, I only want to see Brock VS. Fedor if it's Mortal Kombat rules.

I just wanted to get that off my chest. I think for Brock's fatality he'd just binge on Fedor's flesh and then purge, because he doesn't eat red meat anymore.

I see what you did there

Brocks chest penis would become a real sword and he'd slice the dude in half.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1...y-stunt-by-wwe

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Brock Lesnar UFC Return Rumors Appear to Be a Publicity Stunt by WWE

BY JORDY MCELROY (FEATURED COLUMNIST) ON JANUARY 2, 2014

All of the recent rumors regarding Brock Lesnar possibly returning to the UFC appear to have been nothing more than a well-crafted publicity stunt by World Wrestling Entertainment.

It all seemed too good to be true.

Georges St-Pierre had announced a few weeks ago that he was going on an indefinite hiatus, and Anderson Silva had hinted at retirement a few days out from UFC 168. What would the UFC do without its two biggest stars?

Then, from out of nowhere, a possible solution surfaced in the form of a familiar face. The rumor mill began buzzing about the possibility of Lesnar, a former UFC heavyweight champ and one of the biggest pay-per-view draws in MMA history, returning to the UFC to resume his fighting career.

Lesnar retired from MMA in December 2011 after losing to Alistair Overeem. His early exit from fighting was primarily due to medical reasons.

While competing in the UFC, Lesnar was diagnosed with diverticulitis, a serious intestinal disorder. He underwent a pair of major surgeries over the course of two years in hopes of repairing the illness and continuing to fight.

The final surgery was the last straw for Lesnar, who had a 12-inch piece of his colon removed. He went on to fight Overeem and retire immediately after suffering a first-round TKO loss.

The recent rumors even included talks of the UFC reaching out to MMA legend Fedor Emelianenko to fight Lesnar in a dream fight for the ages. Even former UFC interim heavyweight champ Shane Carwin was fooled. After the rumors of Lesnar’s potential return, Carwin immediately pushed aside his own retirement and hopped on Twitter to challenge Lesnar to a rematch of their July 2010 bout.

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UFC President Dana White appeared completely unaware of the source of the rumors and downplayed Lesnar’s return talk over the UFC 168 weekend.

However, the puzzle quickly came together on Monday night, when Lesnar returned to the WWE on an episode of Monday Night Raw. According to MMAFighting’s Dave Meltzer, Lesnar returning to the WWE on Dec. 30 was planned from the very beginning. The return wasn’t advertised in hopes of surprising WWE fans.

It seems as if the UFC wanted to piggyback off the hype for UFC 168 by throwing Lesnar’s name into the mix for a possible MMA return. Many news outlets have cited that Lesnar has a unique WWE deal in place that would allow him to wrestle in the WWE and compete in MMA. Unfortunately, this simply isn’t the case.

“WWE has exclusive rights to services (to Lesnar) and such exclusivity extends to ultimate fighting competitions,” a WWE official told Meltzer.

The WWE contract reportedly has Lesnar locked up until April 2015.