{"id":312540,"date":"2019-05-07T08:21:49","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=312540"},"modified":"2019-05-07T08:21:50","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T15:21:50","slug":"opinion-failed-ufc-return-of-brock-lesnar-an-unnecessary-circus-that-could-have-been-avoided","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/opinion-failed-ufc-return-of-brock-lesnar-an-unnecessary-circus-that-could-have-been-avoided\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Failed UFC return of Brock Lesnar an unnecessary circus that could have been avoided"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Somewhere out there folded in a waste bin was an unsigned contract that would have guaranteed a heavyweight super fight between UFC champion Daniel Cormier and Brock Lesnar. The supposed biggest heavyweight fight in history sat among yesterday\u2019s garbage before permanently being hauled off to the dump and never to be heard from again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is goodbye to the fight that never should have been. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Can you believe it\u2019s been nearly a year since Lesnar left\nhis cageside seat for that infamous post-fight confrontation with Cormier at\nUFC 226? A playful shoving match between heavyweight icons was followed by\nLesnar dumping on the entire division and the vociferous one-liner that was endlessly\nregurgitated throughout social media. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cDC, I\u2019m coming for you m&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;-r,\u201d Lesnar shouted across the cage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UFC 226: Daniel Cormier and Brock Lesnar Octagon Interviews\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/sQpTaBuMa44?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>UFC fans waited, waited and waited. Lesnar never came back. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even after UFC President Dana White announced the fight was scrapped and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/mma\/story\/_\/id\/26642949\/lesnar-retired-cormier-miocic-ii-works\">Lesnar was retired<\/a> from fighting, there are some fans out there still waiting. There is simply no way of knowing if Lesnar is done with MMA for good. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, the UFC could have avoided the speculative circus\nif they simply waited for pen to be put to paper. The entire heavyweight\ndivision was basically put on hold for a potential blockbuster spectacle that\nnever came to fruition. UFC heavyweight contender Curtis Blaydes summed up his\nfeelings in one tweet aimed directly at Lesnar. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fuck you <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BrockLesnar?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@BrockLesnar<\/a> holding up the whole damn division just to quit smh inconsiderate AF<\/p>&mdash; Curtis Blaydes (@RazorBlaydes265) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RazorBlaydes265\/status\/1123431563537014784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 1, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Blaydes has every right to be angry, along with every other\nheavyweight on the UFC\u2019s roster. There has been no movement at the top of the\ndivision since Cormier defeated Derrick Lewis back in November 2018 at UFC 230.\nSurprisingly enough, the UFC even passed on the opportunity to crown an\ninterim, stand-in champion to sort out the rest of the division until the\nLesnar situation was figured out. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At a time when interim champions are popping up constantly,\nthe heavyweight division was somehow skipped over by the idea. Whether that was\ndone purposely or not will never be known. What we do know, however, is that it\nwould always be a roll of the dice in attempting to pry Lesnar away from his\ncomfy perch in WWE. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That would be the case for almost anyone making millions of\ndollars participating in a part-time gig that doesn\u2019t involve being punched and\nkicked in the face on a daily basis. Yet, the UFC still chose to go down that\npath instead of offering a company man like Stipe Miocic an immediate rematch\nwith Cormier and moving on with the division until Lesnar committed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If other fighters in the division are angry, then Miocic\nshould be downright exasperated for being thrown in the same waste can that\nwould eventually bury Lesnar\u2019s return. The fact that he was pulled out of a\nlandfill somewhere for a scheduled rematch with Cormier in August doesn\u2019t\njustify him being in contender\u2019s purgatory in the first place. His\nrecord-breaking three consecutive heavyweight title defenses make him the most\nsuccessful heavyweight fighter in UFC history. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>How does that guy not earn a rematch? More importantly, how does a fighter like Brock Lesnar, who is coming off a failed drug test and a three-year hiatus, leapfrog every other contender in the division? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Make no mistake, this isn\u2019t an attempt to place the onus of\nblame directly on Lesnar\u2019s shoulders. Quite the contrary, he doesn\u2019t deserve\nmuch blame, if any at all, for merely taking advantage of the opportunities lying\nin front of him. He\u2019s a self-made superstar that climbed to the top of the\nheavyweight division at a time when his journey from WWE to the UFC was treated\nas a joke. No one was laughing when he pummeled Heath Herring and then pounded\non UFC Hall of Famer Randy Couture to win the heavyweight title. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If anything, Lesnar should be applauded for being a savvy\nbusinessman. He has remained in WWE while basically feeding on free promotion\nfrom the UFC throughout his entire road to Wrestlemania 35. We will never know\nif he ever had any real intentions of returning to MMA, although a recent\nreport from Wrestling Observer\u2019s Dave Meltzer suggests the UFC\u2019s newly adopted\npay-per-view model through ESPN+ might have been the culprit behind the failed\nsigning.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">On the latest Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer says Brock Lesnar wanted a flat fee for his next UFC fight due to UFC pay-per-view now being online only. Dave says the number was deemed too high &amp; turned down by the UFC.<\/p>&mdash; Se\u00e1n Sheehan (@SeanSheehanBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SeanSheehanBA\/status\/1123952079586910208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 2, 2019<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The UFC\u2019s job is to give the fans the fights they want to\nsee, and there is no question Lesnar\u2019s name on the A-side of the card would\nhave raked in far better pay-per-view numbers. It\u2019s the reason Cormier and the\nUFC were patiently on-board with waiting in the first place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UFC has to take this one on the chin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While there was certainly no way to predict how things would\nplay out at the negotiating table, it was public knowledge that Lesnar wouldn\u2019t\nbe available until after Wrestlemania in April. Even if <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/daniel-cormier-reveals-he-had-recent-back-surgery\/\">Cormier\nneeded some time away<\/a> from the sport to heal up from injuries, an interim\nchampionship could have been implemented to help bridge the gap of inactivity. The\nsame decision was recently made in both the lightweight and middleweight\ndivisions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>There is also the fact that Lesnar never had a strong case outside of increased pay-per-view revenue to even warrant a title shot. Along with his no contest for the failed drug test in a bout with Mark Hunt, he was coming off back-to-back losses to Cain Velasquez and Alistair Overeem. Those are his only three fights in a near eight-year timeframe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even if the line between spectacle and sport is blurred, it\u2019s\nmere existence must still hold some sort of meaning. Rankings should have some\nform of legitimacy, and active fighters should be rewarded for their\nconsistency. Promotion of merely marquee fights with little substance shouldn\u2019t\nbe so blatantly obvious that it undermines an entire division. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UFC can find solace in everything presumably working out\nin the end, despite the failed attempt at landing the blockbuster title fight.\nLesnar can now return to the world of professional wrestling, and Miocic will\nfinally get the rematch he should have received in 2018. As for Cormier, he\u2019ll have\nthe chance at solidifying his legacy even further by simply taking on the next\nman in line. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He can leave the fight with Brock Lesnar in that emptied waste basket, along with lingering thoughts of what could have been. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>This article first appeared on&nbsp;<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><em>BJPENN.COM<\/em><\/a><em>&nbsp;on 5\/7\/2019.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somewhere out there folded in a waste bin was an unsigned contract that would have guaranteed a heavyweight super fight between UFC champion Daniel Cormier and Brock Lesnar. The supposed biggest heavyweight fight in history sat among yesterday\u2019s garbage before permanently being hauled off to the dump and never to be heard from again. 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