During ESPN’s post-show wrap-up of the historic UFC 200 event on Saturday night, ESPN analyst and former WWE broadcast team member Jonathan Coachman, former UFC title contender Chael Sonnen and ESPN reporter Brett Okamot…
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During ESPN’s post-show wrap-up of the historic UFC 200 event on Saturday night, ESPN analyst and former WWE broadcast team member Jonathan Coachman, former UFC title contender Chael Sonnen and ESPN reporter Brett Okamoto revealed what WWE’s Vince McMahon and Triple H thought of Lesnar’s performance against Hunt in the co-main event of the evening.
After Lesnar defeated Hunt via unanimous decision, picking up scores of 29-27 across the board, Vince McMahon offered the following statement:
“Brock is the most formidable combat athlete in the history of the country,”
For his part, Triple H offered this response:
“To come back after all this time and put on that kind of performance speaks to the once in a lifetime type of athlete that Brock is.”
Next up for Lesnar will be his pro wrestling return against Randy Orton at the WWE SummerSlam pay-per-view on August 21st at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.
For video highlights of Brock Lesnar vs. Mark Hunt, click here. For detailed, round-by-round results of UFC 200, click here.
Count something you never thought would happen as set to go down at tonight’s (Sat., July 9, 2016) UFC 200 pay-per-view (PPV) from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. At the historic event, which is being heavily billed as the MMA leader’s all-time best card for good reason, former UFC heavyweight champion and current WWE
Count something you never thought would happen as set to go down at tonight’s (Sat., July 9, 2016) UFC 200 pay-per-view (PPV) from the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada.
At the historic event, which is being heavily billed as the MMA leader’s all-time best card for good reason, former UFC heavyweight champion and current WWE superstar Brock Lesnar will face off with fan favorite Mark Hunt in the co-main event. When Lesnar’s shocking return to the UFC after four-and-half years off was announced, MMA fans and media members were left to wonder just how Dana White & co. were able to sign “The Beast” back from the notoriously tight clutches of WWE principal owner Vince McMahon.
Well, now we’ve found out. White revealed in a scrum at yesterday’s UFC 200 weigh-ins courtesy of Fight Network (via Cageside Seats) that the WWE will be heavily co-promoted during UFC 200 after allowing Lesnar to fight in a reported “one-off” return to the UFC:
In the scrum, White revealed details about his meeting with McMahon and the WWE’s front office, which resulted in Lesnar using his WWE walkout music in his UFC comeback at UFC 200 and WWE being promoted at the landmark event:
“It was Brock’s team, me, Vince and Triple H. Brock Lesnar just weighed-in on stage and he’s fighting here tomorrow night, so it went great. Listen, Vince and I have had our ups and downs and Vince is a tough character to deal with. He’s an animal. It’s one of the things that I respect about him. I think he’s loosened up a bit on the UFC.”
White confirmed that he owed the WWE a certain amount of reciprocity after they allowed Lesnar to essentially boost UFC 200 through the stratosphere with his appearance, acknowledging that he would certainly promote their company for doing so:
“The fact that they did this, I wanted to reciprocate, so yes. And they’re doing it. If you look today, Brock’s weigh-in will be on all social media for WWE. This deal couldn’t have worked out any better.”
With the UFC and WWE notoriously known as enemies in the past, that’s probably something you never thought you’d hear.
But to get “The Beast” back in the Octagon on his biggest-ever stage, well, White is willing to what it takes.
Holly Holm’s knockout victory over Ronda Rousey at UFC 193 shocked the mixed martial arts world, but it didn’t stop there, as one of the most influential figures in professional wrestling was taken aback as well.
According to Simon Head of …
Holly Holm’s knockout victory over Ronda Rousey at UFC 193 shocked the mixed martial arts world, but it didn’t stop there, as one of the most influential figures in professional wrestling was taken aback as well.
According to Simon Head of the Sun, UFC President Dana White revealed on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast that WWE Executive Vice President Paul “Triple H” Levesque texted him after Holm became the new UFC women’s bantamweight champion.
“Even Triple H—your boy Triple H—hit me up last night and said, ‘Wow!'” White said. “He goes, ‘What a show! And what a shocker!’ That’s what Triple H hit me with last night.”
Triple H has expressed his admiration for Rousey in the past, and the feeling is mutual as Rowdy has long been a huge wrestling fan.
That much was clear at WrestleMania 31 when Rousey made a surprising in-ring appearance with The Rock. It resulted in her taking out both Triple H and Stephanie McMahon, and it generated a ton of speculation that she would be involved with WrestleMania 32 in Arlington, Texas.
Per Damon Martin of FoxSports.com, the former world champion made it clear she would like to try her hand as an active competitor in WWE one day:
What I would love to do: I got an Olympic medal, I would want to retire from MMA as one of the greatest of all time, I would love to have the chance to be the boxing world champion, and I would love to have the chance to be a jiu-jitsu world champion. I’d love to have the chance to be the Divas world champion and just be the best of everything at one point.
It is unclear what type of impact Rousey’s loss might have on her WWE aspirations, but she received a six-month medical suspension from the UFC after getting pummeled by Holm, per MixedMartialArts.com (via Elias Cepeda of FoxSports.com), which means she could be available in some capacity for WrestleMania 32 on April 3.
Although White described Rousey’s WrestleMania moment as “one-and-done” previously, per The Fight Network (via Nick Schwartz of For The Win), there is undoubtedly a lot of money to be made by both Rousey and WWE if they are able to do business in the future.
The 28-year-old fighter may no longer be the indestructible force she was presented as, but she still has no shortage of cachet, and Triple H would certainly jump at the chance to get her involved with a big WWE event.
Narrowly avoiding an end to his career by contract stipulation, 13-time WWE/WWF/World Heavyweight Champion Triple H defeated former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar in a “No Holds Barred Match” at WrestleMania XXIX in New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium….
Narrowly avoiding an end to his career by contract stipulation, 13-time WWE/WWF/World Heavyweight Champion Triple H defeated former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar in a “No Holds Barred Match” at WrestleMania XXIX in New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium.
Per professional wrestling rules, Triple H (a.k.a. Hunter Hearst Helmsley) won his match with Lesnar by a three-count pinfall.
Both men exchanged several MMA and wrestling moves during their time in the event, with a “No Holds Barred” stipulation allowing the use of weapons and foreign objects.
After trading potentially fight-ending kimura submission maneuvers, Triple H got the better of Lesnar despite being beaten throughout most of the match, in addition to being slammed through the Spanish announcers’ table.
Things ended during a sequence where Triple H “hit” Lesnar with a sledgehammer to the head, followed by a Pedigree (double underhookfacebuster) on a set of steel steps that had been thrown into the ring earlier.
The three-time WWE champion Lesnar re-signed with the company in April 2012 after a two-year, 11-month career with the UFC, where he also captured and successfully retained the UFC heavyweight championship.
During Lesnar‘s short stint in MMA, he defeated the likes of Frank Mir, Randy Couture and Shane Carwin, quickly becoming the UFC’s biggest pay-per-view star.
Lesnar would eventually lose his title to current UFC champion Cain Velasquez and retire after a loss to former Strikeforce champion Alistair Overeem.
Since returning to the WWE after his crippling back-to-back UFC losses, Lesnar has gone 1-2 in the ring, with his lone win in the past year coming against Triple H at SummerSlam 2012 in a “No Disqualifications” match via submission by kimura.
After some awful soap opera bullshit involving Paul Heyman and Triple H, former cage-fighter Brock Lesnar showed up on the historic 1,000th episode of WWE Raw last night to save his manager from getting slapped to death by Stephanie McMahon. Though his last run-in with Triple H ended in a Submission of the Night performance, Brock got the short end of the script this time, and was clotheslined directly out of the ring. (Perfect execution on that fall, by the way. The man’s still got it.)
After some awful soap opera bullshit involving Paul Heyman and Triple H, former cage-fighter Brock Lesnar showed up on the historic 1,000th episode of WWE Raw last night to save his manager from getting slapped to death by Stephanie McMahon. Though his last run-in with Triple H ended in a Submission of the Night performance, Brock got the short end of the script this time, and was clotheslined directly out of the ring. (Perfect execution on that fall, by the way. The man’s still got it.)
Brock Lesnar‘s latest Monday Night Raw appearance ended in a brawl with Triple H and a kimura that appeared to snap the WWE COO‘s arm. (Don’t worry guys, I think some of this wrestling stuff is fake.) Lesnar also used a kimura in his “Extreme Rules” match against John Cena on Sunday night — which was set up to look like a legit MMA bout, right down to the gash on Cena’s head — but wound up losing via pin. You can watch highlights from that wild performance after the jump.
Wrestling ripping off MMA, MMA ripping off wrestling…can’t we all just admit that we love each other?
Brock Lesnar‘s latest Monday Night Raw appearance ended in a brawl with Triple H and a kimura that appeared to snap the WWE COO‘s arm. (Don’t worry guys, I think some of this wrestling stuff is fake.) Lesnar also used a kimura in his “Extreme Rules” match against John Cena on Sunday night — which was set up to look like a legit MMA bout, right down to the gash on Cena’s head — but wound up losing via pin. You can watch highlights from that wild performance after the jump.
Wrestling ripping off MMA, MMA ripping off wrestling…can’t we all just admit that we love each other?
Holly Holm’s knockout victory over Ronda Rousey at UFC 193 shocked the mixed martial arts world, but it didn’t stop there, as one of the most influential figures in professional wrestling was taken aback as well.