You can take this latest batch of Brock Lesnar returning to the UFC rumors and stick ’em in the garbage can. That’s according to UFC president Dana White, who revealed on Dan Le Batard’s radio show that the days of Lesnar jumping back and forth between the WWE and UFC are over.
“Lesnar was still under contract with WWE till next August,” White said (via MMA Mania). “Who knows what would have happened. I don’t count my chickens anymore, I’ll tell you that … [the WWE] didn’t want to do that again. You saw what happened last time he was under contract and it doesn’t look good for anybody.”
What a change two months can bring. Following his victory over Daniel Cormier at the end of July, GOAT contender Jon Jones called out Lesnar, setting off a back and forth between the two that had big cartoon money signs popping up in everyone’s eyes. Stories of Lesnar and Paul Heyman visiting UFC headquarters swirled, and even speculation that Lesnar was secretly back in the USADA testing pool so he could return to UFC competition sooner rather than later.
But then Jon Jones tested positive for the steroid turinabol and is now staring down the barrel of an up to four year drug suspension. Without that single big money fight waiting for him, Lesnar no longer has much of a reason to try and twist the WWE’s arm into letting him return to the UFC. And with a six month USADA testing period to look forward to before he’d be able to compete, maybe it just stopped looking worth it to everyone. As Dana White said, we saw what happened last time.
