In case you didn’t know
Lesnar’s last MMA fight was for UFC on July 9, 2016, when he fought Mark Hunt at UFC 200 in Las Vegas. Despite the fact he was under contract with WWE (and that Lesnar had stated he had “closed the door” on his MMA career), he was granted an exception to fight at the event.
While Lesnar won the fight by decision, two USADA tests afterwards tested positive for an undisclosed but banned substance. Because of this, the fight’s decision was reversed and Lesnar was imposed with a one-year suspension by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. In response, Lesnar announced his second retirement from MMA fighting.
The heart of the story
Well, if Brock is planning on making yet another UFC comeback, you wouldn’t know it from talking to the UFC. According to UFC’s Vice President of Athlete Health and Performance Jeff Novitzky, Brock hasn’t even re-entered the testing pool. Talking to MMAJunkie.com, he said:
What’s next?
For the moment, it looks like Lesnar has no overtly ambitious plans to re-enter the octagon soon. One can only imagine that Brock is focused more on SummerSlam next month and less on another MMA career that he couldn’t even take part in until well after next year’s WrestleMania.
Author’s take
I don’t doubt that Brock misses the UFC and the MMA scene. Still, a lot of us thought that Brock would possibly leave WWE before WrestleMania 31 before announcing he had signed a new WWE contract. The moral of the story here is, don’t believe anything about The Beast until The Beast actually says it.
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