Ex-UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping doesn’t consider Brock Lesnar’s return at UFC 300 is as far-fetched as one may suppose.
With the promotion’s subsequent huge milestone occasion a number of brief months away, the stage is slowly being set for one of many greatest nights in MMA historical past. Battle followers have already got a slew of thrilling matchups to look as much as, together with the lately introduced lightweight title eliminator between Charles Oliveira and rising contender Arman Tsarukyan. However the million-dollar query stays — who will function within the night’s major occasion?
With most of the promotion’s prime stars already booked and titleholders like Jon Jones and Islam Makhachev not slated to return till summer season, there’s a stunning lack of big-money fights to make. Nevertheless, Bisping believes he has the reply in former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar.
UFC CEO Dana White has already debunked rumors of Lesnar’s return on the occasion, however with each the UFC and the WWE now underneath the identical banner, ‘The Depend’ is satisfied that struggle followers might see ‘The Beast Incarnate’ step again contained in the Octagon on April 13.
“UFC 300, will we see Brock Lesnar on there once more?” Bisping acknowledged on his YouTube channel in a latest video. “It sounds silly, as a result of Brock Lesnar is not any spring hen. He’s 46 years previous, 46 years previous however bear in mind Randy Couture fought into the ripe previous age of 47. Fighters have gone longer. Guess what, when there’s thousands and thousands of {dollars} on the road, folks will come and struggle.”
He continued, “Individuals would like to see Brock Lesnar stepping in there as soon as once more… He’s solely 46, he’s nonetheless a draw and folks love him. The UFC and the WWE, they’re each owned by the identical dad or mum firm now. So, I’d think about that the politics and the contractual stuff could be fairly simple waters to navigate. So I can’t see that being a hurdle. However, who would the opponent be?”
Bisping Lobbies For Brock Lesnar vs. Tom Aspinall at UFC 300
However who might Brock Lesnar face in his hypothetical return? Nicely, Bisping even has the proper opponent in thoughts for the WWE Celebrity.
“…Name me loopy, name me Tom Aspinall’s primary fanboy, however might you think about Brock Lesnar vs. Tom Aspinall headlining UFC 300?” Bisping concluded. “… Possibly it’s simply wishful pondering. However Tom Aspinall, Brock Lesnar, that will be psychological. That’s the kind of factor I feel the UFC are going to do” (h/t BJPenn.com).
Tom Aspinall has been undeniably frustrated with his position as the present interim heavyweight champion. Since successful the title with a surprising 69-second KO of Sergei Pavlovich in November, he has been lobbying for a struggle with the division’s undisputed king, Jon Jones. At present, ‘Bones’ is sidelined whereas recovering from a pectoral damage, however even when he returns, it gained’t be Aspinall he fights.
As a substitute, Jones will transfer ahead with a beforehand scheduled scrap towards two-time titleholder Stipe Miocic later this 12 months. With Aspinall pressured to sit down out and wait, a struggle towards somebody like Brock Lesnar might be simply what the physician ordered for one of many UFC’s most fun heavyweights.
