Ex-UFC middleweight champion Michael Bisping doesn’t imagine Brock Lesnar’s return at UFC 300 is as far-fetched as one would possibly assume.
With the promotion’s subsequent massive milestone occasion just a few brief months away, the stage is slowly being set for one of many largest nights in MMA historical past. Struggle followers have already got a slew of thrilling matchups to look as much as, together with the lately introduced light-weight title eliminator between Charles Oliveira and rising contender Arman Tsarukyan. However the million-dollar query stays — who will function within the night’s foremost 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. Nonetheless, 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 below the identical banner, ‘The Rely’ is satisfied that combat 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 isn’t any spring hen. He’s 46 years previous, 46 years previous however keep in mind Randy Couture fought into the ripe previous age of 47. Fighters have gone longer. Guess what, when there’s hundreds of thousands of {dollars} on the road, individuals will come and combat.”
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 other people love him. The UFC and the WWE, they’re each owned by the identical father or mother firm now. So, I’d think about that the politics and the contractual stuff can be fairly straightforward 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? Effectively, Bisping even has the right opponent in thoughts for the WWE Famous person.
“…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. “… Perhaps 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 pissed off along with his place 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 combat 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 received’t be Aspinall he fights.
As an alternative, Jones will transfer ahead with a beforehand scheduled scrap in opposition to two-time titleholder Stipe Miocic later this yr. With Aspinall compelled to sit down out and wait, a combat in opposition to somebody like Brock Lesnar could possibly be simply what the physician ordered for one of many UFC’s most fun heavyweights.
