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Keep in mind that this could be a negotiating ploy to get more from Dana White. It's been widely...

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Keep in mind that this could be a negotiating ploy to get more from Dana White. It's been widely speculated that Lesnar would like to headline WrestleMania in 2011 and Dana won't let him. White has openly discussed his desire to book Lesnar against Frank Mir as a coach on The Ultimate Fighter. Rumors of a Brendan Schaub vs Frank Mir match in spring 2011 seemed to have scotched that possibility, but yesterday's announcement that Schaub would be facing Stefan Struve Mirko Filipovic aka Cro Cop, re-opens Mir-Lesnar 3 as a possible capper to an epic season of TUF. My bet (hope) is that Meltzer's source is someone in the Lesnar camp (ie Paul Heyman) who is trying to talk up Lesnar's disinterest in returning to the UFC in order to raise the asking price.

Kid Nate speculates that the recent leaked information about Brock Lesnar's current negative mindset is a negotiating ploy by his camp to raise his asking price." As an update to Kid Nate's story, Dave Meltzer on today's Wrestling Observer radio show was speculating (some would say pushing the idea) again that Brock Lesnar being a coach on The Ultimate Fighter reality TV show with Frank Mir would be a mutually favourable ratings quid pro quo for Dana White allowing Brock to pick up an easy WrestleMania pay check. According to Meltzer, Lesnar's goal for this year is to make as much money as possible. What better way to maximise his autobiography sales, that Paul Heyman ghost wrote, than to appear both on WWE Raw and The Ultimate Fighter almost simultaneously in the run up to the book’s release?

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