Paul Heyman, who has been one of Lesnar’s closest friends for more than a decade can’t say for certain if the former heavyweight champion will ever fight again but given his competitive nature, especially when staring down what seem like insurmountable odds, it’s never good to close the door and say it will never happen again.
“Brock is in his heart a trained competitor. Now whether that means he’s going to look at this environment and say ‘you know what, I didn’t make the Vikings team in 2004 but I bet in 2017 I can and just because I can I’m going to just to show people that I want to and I take it’. Because when we named him the conqueror, that’s what he is. He’s a legit conqueror. You put a task before him and he conquers it,” Heyman told the Fight Society podcast this week.
“I really can’t tell you that it’s out of the realm of possibility of Brock Lesnar to say ‘I’m taking a few months off from WWE, I want to see how many homeruns I can hit for the Minnesota Twins’. People may laugh at that, but it’s the same people that laughed at him in 2004 when he went for the Vikings camp and he was the last person cut and that’s with a broken jaw, a fractured pelvis and diverticulitis. I think what’s next for Brock Lesnar besides what’s happening in WWE. Could it be UFC? Could it be another sport? I think it’s something he’s going to look at and say ‘I bet no one thinks I can do that, all right I’m going to conquer that’.”
Paul Heyman explains why he can't close the door on Brock Lesnar returning to the UFC | FOX Sports
