The ‘bidding war’ for the services of Brock Lesnar between the WWE and UFC seems to have never existed if you believe UFC President Dana White. White was on the radio today and had some things to say on how close the UFC came to getting Brock Lesnar back.
Via MMAFighting.com,
“Not very close at all,” White told radio host Chad Dukes on 106.7 The Fan on Thursday. “We’d known that Brock was probably going to take a pass and go back to wrestling, which was the right move. You know, Brock came in here, he did incredible things and he got a great deal from Vince (McMahon). He’s 38 years old, man. It makes all the sense in the world.”
Brock announced his retirement from the world of MMA a few days before Wrestlemania 31 and like Dana White says, it just makes sense. Lesnar would have had to go into an intense training schedule to get ready for the elite fighters in the UFC and at his age it just wasn’t something he wanted to do. Instead he used the threat of the UFC to leverage a better deal out of the WWE and Vince McMahon. Did it work? Possibly, but I don’t know the specifics of the deal. All I know is that Lesnar gets a lot of money and works rarely. Seems like it worked to me.