{"id":360105,"date":"2020-08-31T18:05:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-01T01:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=360105"},"modified":"2020-08-31T18:05:15","modified_gmt":"2020-09-01T01:05:15","slug":"bellator-interested-in-brock-lesnar-to-make-fedor-emelianenko-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/bellator-interested-in-brock-lesnar-to-make-fedor-emelianenko-fight\/","title":{"rendered":"Bellator interested in Brock Lesnar to make Fedor Emelianenko fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bellator is interested in signing Brock Lesnar if he truly is a free agent.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Monday, it was reported by multiple sites that Lesnar is no longer under contract with WWE. With Lesnar being a free agent, he will no doubt command a lot of money from promotions like WWE, AEW, UFC, and now Bellator.<\/p>\n<p>According to Bellator President, Scott Coker, the promotion is interested in signing Lesnar.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Asked Bellator President Scott Coker if he has interest in Brock Lesnar, and he replied:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, if he\u2019s truly available. Fedor vs. Brock is interesting. It\u2019s the fight that never happened!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Ariel Helwani (@arielhelwani) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arielhelwani\/status\/1300580332610166784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 31, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Asked Bellator President Scott Coker if he has interest in Brock Lesnar, and he replied: Yes, if he&#8217;s truly available. Fedor vs. Brock is interesting. It&#8217;s the fight that never happened,&#8221; Coker told <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/arielhelwani\/status\/1300580332610166784\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ESPN&#8217;s Ariel Helwani<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brock Lesnar has not competed in the MMA since UFC 200 in July of 2016. At the event, he dominated Mark Hunt to a clear-cut decision. Unfortunately, he failed a drug test and the fight was overturned to a no-contest.<\/p>\n<p>Lesnar is currently 5-3 with one no-contest in MMA. He won the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ufc.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">UFC<\/a> belt in just his fourth pro fight as he beat Randy Couture by knockout. He would go on to defend the strap two times with wins over Frank Mir and Shane Carwin. Lesnar lost the heavyweight title to Cain Velasquez.<\/p>\n<p>Brock Lesnar vs. Fedor Emelianenko<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/fedor-emelianenko\/dana-white-regrets-not-booking-brock-lesnar-vs-fedor-emelianenko\/\"> is a fight many fans wanted to see years ago<\/a>. Lesnar was the UFC heavyweight champion and a massive star while Emelianenko at the time was dominating in PRIDE and in promotions like Affliction and Strikeforce.<\/p>\n<p>Fedor Emelianenko returned to the win column last time out with a TKO win over Rampage Jackson. Before that, he suffered a first-round knockout loss to Ryan Bader in the heavyweight grand prix finals.<\/p>\n<p>Emelianenko<a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/bellator\/fedor-emelianenko-could-continue-fighting-longer-than-originally-planned\/\"> is also on his farewell tour<\/a> so to add Lesnar to that tour would be massive. With both men being over 40, it would be interesting to see how they would fare against one another.<\/p>\n<p>Would you be interested in seeing Brock Lesnar vs. Fedor Emelianenko in Bellator?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bellator is interested in signing Brock Lesnar if he truly is a free agent. Earlier on Monday, it was reported by multiple sites that Lesnar is no longer under contract with WWE. With Lesnar being a free agent, he will no doubt command a lot of money from promotions like WWE, AEW, UFC, and now [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54463,"featured_media":273918,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[44,10199],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Bellator interested in Brock Lesnar to make Fedor Emelianenko fight | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Bellator is interested in signing Brock Lesnar if he truly is a free agent as it is reported he is no longer uncer contract with WWE.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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