We’re counting down the days until WrestleMania 34, and with it the end of Brock Lesnar’s current contract with WWE. Will he stay? Will he go to UFC? Or will he, as Paul Heyman recently suggested in a wide ranging interview with Newsweek, decide to do both at the same time?
“We both have a number of projects we have been interested in pursuing that will start to kick off after WrestleMania.” Heyman said. “That doesn’t mean Brock Lesnar can’t retain the title and we do those other projects simultaneously in a continued run as Universal Champion. The proof I offer to you is Brock Lesnar fought Mark Hunt at UFC 200 and, six weeks later, main evented SummerSlam against Randy Orton.”
But while Lesnar’s WWE future may be cloudy, his interest in returning to UFC is pretty clear cut. At this point Heyman is talking about it like it’s a done deal (which of course it can’t be until after WrestleMania).
“I don’t think it’s any secret that Brock is looking to get back into the octagon,” he said. “He is obviously eyeballing another fight in UFC. There’s no secret. He’s posing for pictures with Dana White wearing a UFC shirt in the UFC offices in Las Vegas. That’s not a negotiating tactic, Brock Lesnar wants to compete inside of the octagon. There’s no leveraging that; it’s a fact.”
As for who Lesnar would match up against, there’s no shortage of UFC fighters looking to take on the WWE Superstar. According to Heyman, Lesnar is ready to face “whomever UFC deems appropriate as both a physical matchup and a box office attraction against Brock Lesnar.”
It could take a while though before Lesnar is allowed to compete. He’s still got six months of USADA testing to get through before he’s able to step foot in the Octagon again.
