Will Vince McMahon ride the Brock Lesnar Gravy Train if he wins the UFC HWeight Title

[Shocky]

It's a pretty simple question, will Vince McMahon exploit the fact that Brock Lesnar was one of his guys if Brock wins UFC's Heavyweight title in his third UFC Fight. I tend to think he will, because it's Vince McMahon.

Say what you will about wrestling and it's lack of ratings at this point, I tend to believe that the audience that was there for wrestling ten years ago has moved on to MMA, a notion that Vince McMahon time and time again has seemed to deny.

Brock Lesnar goes a legit 6'4" 265 pounds, the guy is a legit beast, and with his background in amateur and professional wrestling, he's flat out scary. Arguably, he should be undefeated in his MMA career do to what I say was a controversial call by the ref during the Frank Mir fight. Regardless, Lesnar bounced back quite nicely in his second fight.

Randy Couture, say what you will, is still a big name when it comes to MMA. Sure, he might have been gone for a while, but he still has name value, and is still the Heavyweight champion. If Brock beats a name like Couture, and with the cockiness that Lesnar showed in his celebration of his victory over Herring, Brock could be made into an MMA superstar over night.

So my question, do you believe that if the perfect storm happens and Brock becomes the heavyweight champion in a real sport, will Vince McMahon begin to ride the gravy train on WWE programming?

 

[mattitude2007]

Brock Lesnar is singlehandedly making me more than just a casual fan of MMA. I must admit ever since his first fight with Mir, my interest in WWE started to gradually, but rapidly wane. I wasn't really sure why but its obvious to me now that Lesnar is the reason.

I loved Lesnar in his WWE run. And if he can take the title from Randy it will be huge. Even though he will still have to fight Nogeuira or Mir for the interim heavyweight title to unify the two, just having a taste of the gold beating one of the biggest draws in the UFC in Couture would be superb.

How awesome would it be if WWE and UFC team up for Wrestlemania 25? Lesnar being the guest superstar for this one like Mayweather was for 24.

 

[Marquis]

How can he? What hes gonna go on tv and say "Hey i made lesner"?. Maybe like on a interview i can see him mentioning brocks success is thanks to the popularity he gained with the wwe which is true. But for the most part i think he would rather keep mma as far away as he can from the wwe since he considers them a legit threat. Also there was nothing contreversial about his fight with mir. He caught him with a kneebar plain and simple its due to brock still being green it was only his 2nd fight and they threw him to a former HW champ.

 

[mattitude2007]

^ Like I mentioned, they could attempt to get the UFC to allow him to do a wrestlemania appearance ala Mayweather. But yeah other than that and one off interviews I don't think there is much else Vince can do to capitalize on it were it to happen.


ps: How do you see the fight having gone if the ref didn't deduct a point from Lesnar and making them stand back up? Honest question.

 

[Marquis]

^ Like I mentioned, they could attempt to get the UFC to allow him to do a wrestlemania appearance ala Mayweather. But yeah other than that and one off interviews I don't think there is much else Vince can do to capitalize on it were it to happen.


ps: How do you see the fight having gone if the ref didn't deduct a point from Lesnar and making them stand back up? Honest question.

Well its kinda tough to answer. But since mir has shit cardio and gasses to fast i can see him going for one more sub attempt it doesn't matter if he has it in tight or not i think the moment lesner gets caught in a lock by him hes gonna tap no matter what since mir doesn't go for the tap he trys to snap or break you in a sub. I remember lesner also saying after the fight he tapped fast cause he didn't wanna risk injury.