Vince McMahon wants Brock Lesnar to face The Undertaker at WrestleMania XXVII
Ariel Helwani should have known that something was up when top WWE star and member of Vince McMahon's inner circle The Undertaker agreed to be interviewed by him at UFC 121 for AOL Fanhouse. Especially after the last WWE veteran to do such a cardinal sin, Jim Ross, ended up in Vince's doghouse. So it should have come as little surprise to Ariel when The Undertaker made sure to catch Brock Lesnar's eye as he left the cage, made a feeble attempt to goad him into a fight, which Brock ignored, and claimed that they have personal issues. Alarm bells should have been ringing in Ariel's head that maybe The Undertaker, under instructions from his present employer Vince McMahon, was trying to publicly goad Lesnar into doing a WrestleMania match with him next year, just like John Cena did in 2009 with Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson.
Unsurprisingly, Dave Meltzer with his ties to the Brock Lesnar camp and his high up WWE sources, had the scoop on his post UFC 121 radio show:
Dave: Vince McMahon wants Undertaker and Brock at WrestleMania. I just can't imagine um, I mean his contract with UFC wouldn't allow it, so who knows.... Obviously the fact that Undertaker was there, you know, they obviously think that they got.... What I can tell you there is no deal for that match, but they do want that match and obviously Brock has been contacted and there you go. For the streak against the UFC title, but he lost the title.
Bryan: *Sniggers* The streak against the UFC title!
Dave: Sounded like a good idea at the time. If you're Vince and you're trying to recoup that fifty million dollars that you've just lost in the election campaign, you know, you're going to come up with ideas like this.
Dave and Bryan went on to safely speculate that Dana White won't be too happy about all this when he finds out about it. Personally I don't think anything will come out of this and Brock will just use WWE's interest in him as negotiating leverage to get a better PPV cut from Dana, given the millions and millions of dollars that would be left on the table if he jumped ship now and didn't have his rubber match with Frank Mir, which he should comfortably win to set up another big money rematch with Shane Carwin or Cain Velasquez. Returning to WWE can wait until the money dries up in UFC.
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Why would he be in on it?
"Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment."
-Lao Tzu
If there's anybody who'd be down to work with the WWE...
it would be Ariel. He’s an admitted wrestling fan and the scenario of him being part of the work is plausible. But overall, I think this was all a coincidence and Ariel just happened to be at the right place at the right time.
This was mentioned elsewhere but there’s still a ton of money left to be made for Brock in the UFC. People are still interested in him, but he’s got to improve in the next fight. There’s no way Brock is going to regain the title being one-dimensional against Cain or JDS for that matter.
by FighterHayabusa on Oct 24, 2010 3:55 PM EDT up reply actions
I'm sorry. I see it more as 'taker going "look at me! look at me" and Ariel just rolling with it.
"Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment."
-Lao Tzu
Taker has been ringside for Brocks fights before
And they never had a confrontation UFC put Taker on air and mentioned him. If this has a real chance of happening then YFC knows about it. IMO this isn’t a desperate move this is a brilliant move by Vince to invigorate new life in his company. Signing Mike Tyson would be desperate but bringing back Lesnar is a Godsend and a bankable box office and in ring attraction. I hope it happens!!!!
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitudes...
by Major on Oct 24, 2010 12:45 PM EDT via mobile reply actions
*UFC
Freedom is a road seldom traveled by the multitudes...
by Major on Oct 24, 2010 12:47 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
That would be the stupidest thing the UFC ever does.
"Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment."
-Lao Tzu
That would be great if it happened. Anyway I chuckled at the idea of Taker needing Vince’s permission to do an interview. Hes the fucking Undertaker.
Sort of, but Taker has also always come across as both a big Yes Man for Vince, as well as someone very protective of his gimmick. In the past times where the UFC cameras have shown him he seemed uncomfortable to be put on TV. This time, both when the cameras went to him during the broadcast and obviously during the interview with Ariel he came across much more naturally.
by The so-called Beautiful on Oct 24, 2010 3:07 PM EDT up reply actions

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