Brock Lesnar News (Page 2)

Former WWE Champion Brock Lesnar was victorious in his MMA debut for K-1 Hero's/Elite XC show from the Los Angeles Coliseum on Saturday night.

Lesnar defeated Kim Min-soo after Min-soo tapped out at 1:09 in the first round. Lensar took Min-soo down to the ground, threw punches, eventually got a full mount and hit Min-soo with some hard punches to the head leading to the tapout.

Reports from the show stated that Min-soo's eyes were glassy, as he appeared to be knocked silly from Lesnar's punches.

Brock Lesnar has finally found what he was looking for.

After aborted stints as a superstar pro wrestler and aspiring NFL player, Lesnar is set to make his mixed martial arts fighting debut. He will face South Korea's Hong Man Choi on June 2 in the co-main event of the Dynamite USA special on Showtime and pay-per-view that is emanating from Los Angeles.

"I have been training for almost a full year for this," Lesnar said last week in a media conference call. "Since I signed with (the K-1 Hero's promotion in April 2006), we have been trying to organize a fight. I am very excited to step in the ring and show the world that I can fight."

Lesnar showed he could wrestle at the University of Minnesota, winning the 2000 NCAA heavyweight championship his senior year and earning honors as a four-time All-America selection. Lesnar immediately parlayed that grappling success into a contract with World Wrestling Entertainment, where it took him a little more than two years to win the promotion's world title.

But while he was atop the world's most successful promotion at the age of 25, Lesnar became increasingly disenchanted with the wrestling industry and its travel demands. In March 2004, Lesnar walked away from a seven-figure WWE salary to pursue an NFL career.

"It is not all about the money," Lesnar said. "It is about being happy and close to home every night, having my daughter run into the bedroom and wake me up. Being able to put my kids to bed at night and not be on the road 300 days a year was the main reason."

Lesnar was signed by the Minnesota Vikings as a defensive lineman and potential special teams contributor. But Lesnar's lack of gridiron experience - he stopped playing football after high school in South Dakota to concentrate solely on amateur wrestling - was quickly exposed and he was waived during the preseason.

"(Training) camp is a short period of time and everything gets thrown at you very fast," Lesnar said. "By the time I learned something in football, we were already onto another chapter."

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Yahoo! Sports has posted a very informative interview with former WWE Champion Brock Lesnar.

The interview was done as a promotional piece for his MMA debut, which will take place on June 2nd in Los Angeles; however, his run with WWE was brought up. Lesnar said that he was unhappy being in WWE because he rarely saw anything other than gyms, arenas, and airports.

"Nobody has a clue what that lifestyle is like. I was really blindsided when I got into the entertainment industry. I had no clue. I thought maybe I'd be out one night a week, two on a busy one, but I had no clue what I was getting into," Lesnar said. People say, 'You're making all this money and you're going to all these great places, how lucky are you?' I wanted to tell them, 'You can have it.' I wasn’t prepared for it.

Maybe some people are prepared for that, but I wasn't. I’m a redneck out of South Dakota and I love to hunt and fish. Every time I got onto the airplane, I wanted to be in a deer stand or with my daughter. I was just out of my element."

The article also mentions that Lesnar was “briefly” marred to former WWE Diva Rena “Sable” Mero.

To read the full article, click here.

On Sunday night former WWE champion Brock Lesnar was a guest on Carnage Bloodsport Banter, heard every Sunday night at 11PM on AudioWrestling.com and CarnageTalk.com!

Here are some highlights from Lesnar's interview:

- Brock is down to his fighting weight of 270.

- Brock said when he left WWE he had already beaten everyone, including Triple H, so he didn't have a problem jobbing on his way out.

- Brock thinks leaving WWE was the best decision he could have made because he went out on top despite losing his last match.

- Brock enjoys being home with his family and not on the road all of the time with WWE.

- Brock has been doing extensive training however the rumors he trained with Royce Gracie are not true as the two have not yet had a chance to hookup.

- Brock said he wanted to do an MMA match while working for WWE and at one point there was a plan for Brock Lesnar and Kurt Angle to get involved with Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield.

- Brock talked about his time trying out for the NFL, but said he wasn't willing to put the time into that type of commitment (by living in Europe) to play in lower level leagues.

- Brock said he does not yet have an MMA ring name. He hopes to get his nickname after winning his first match.

- Brock talks about a shoot with Kurt Angle "mopping the floor with him." Brock says if him and Kurt had a real shoot they probably would each win 5 out of 10. However Brock does go on to say there would be no shame in losing to Kurt and he always considered Kurt an excellent training partner.

- Brock went on to talk about his training in wrestling, football and MMA and thanks them all individually.

- Brock says he has a lot of high expectations for himself. Brock wants to be involved in MMA for a long time.

Forget Stone Cold Steve Austin vs. Hulk Hogan. This would be a fight for the ages:

In an interview with CBS Sportsline, Brock Lesnar says he would be willing to fight former pro wrestling colleague Kurt Angle.

"If somebody wants to set it up, I'm all for it," said Lesnar, who makes his MMA debut on June 2 against Hong-Man Choi.

Lesnar believes the Olympic Gold Medalist and current TNA wrestling star has a few fights in him and could do well in the Light Heavyweight (205 pound) class. Nonetheless, Lesnar said:"I think father time has caught up to him rather quickly because of the demand of professional wrestling and what he gave to professional wrestling."

If this fight ever went down, readers, who do you think would win?

Former WWE Champion Brock Lesnar is currently in negotiations with UFC and has been training with Japan MMA group, K-1.

Sources close to the situation are now saying that Lesnar will make his long awaited MMA debut for K-1 offshoot HEROES on May 19th in Las Vegas, Nevada. Lesnar has been training to become an MMA fighter since leaving New Japan Pro Wrestling.

These aren't exactly new stories. In fact, they're almost as old as any storyline pitting the owner against a wrestler (can you hear us, Vince McMahon?).

Nevertheless, we wanted to give fans a glimpse of a few of their favorite stars outside the ring. And almost behind bars. Take a look at these mugshots:

Charges were dropped against The Big Show back in 1998, after he allegedly exposed himself to a female motel employee. Maybe that's where the ECW Champion's rage comes from. DX may feel it at Unforgiven.

Similarly, a case was never presented against Brock Lesnar for distributing steroids in 2001. Still, the big man was booked on the charges. Now? We just want him to return to a WWE ring.

Ric Flair doesn't look too happy. Would you, after being arrested last year on misdemeanor charges of assault? This angle was then used in a storyline with Mick Foley.