{"id":22000,"date":"2016-06-06T20:50:50","date_gmt":"2016-06-07T01:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=22000"},"modified":"2016-06-06T20:50:50","modified_gmt":"2016-06-07T01:50:50","slug":"brock-lesnar-talks-paul-heyman-returning-ufc-now-initiated-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/06\/06\/brock-lesnar-talks-paul-heyman-returning-ufc-now-initiated-talks\/","title":{"rendered":"Brock Lesnar talks to Paul Heyman about returning to UFC &#8211; why now?, who initiated talks?, more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-584639394\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>Just before the start of Raw, Paul Heyman&#8217;s &#8220;Heyman Hustle&#8221; website released a sit-down interview between Heyman and Brock Lesnar discussing Lesnar&#8217;s return to UFC in July.<\/p>\n<p>Lesnar said he made the decision because he wants to. Also, because he did not leave UFC on his terms &#8220;losing&#8221; to diverticulitis. Lesnar said he&#8217;s not returning to UFC to avenge his final loss in December 2011, but to avenge losing a battle\u00a0against\u00a0diverticulitis.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was faking it. I was faking it just to be in there. I was faking it that a disease [wasn\u2019t] more powerful than me. I was faking it that I was more powerful than it. I want to go back into that Octagon. I want to have fun,&#8221; Lesnar told Heyman.<\/p>\n<p>Lesnar also said he initiated conversations with UFC&#8217;s Dana White about fighting again.\u00a0\u201cDana White didn\u2019t call me up for this. I made the phone call,\u201d Lesnar said. \u201cYou can\u2019t get into the Octagon half-assedly. Nor would I make the call if I wanted to half-assedly get in the Octagon. I\u2019m smarter than that, I know how dangerous it is. It\u2019s a dangerous sport. I wouldn\u2019t put my health at risk [like that]\u2026 I\u2019m 100\u00a0percent\u00a0all in. All in. No doubts in my mind. At all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[ <strong>Read More:<\/strong> Full transcript of the conversation at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mmatorch.com\/2016\/06\/07\/brock-lesnar-says-he-was-faking-it-to-fight-through-diverticulitis-in-first-ufc-run-all-in-on-ufc-200-return\/\" target=\"_blank\">MMATorch.com<\/a>. ]<\/p>\n<p>[ <strong>Watch:<\/strong> Full Interview at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heymanhustle.com\/exclusive-paul-brock-ufc-200-interview\" target=\"_blank\">HeymanHustle.com<\/a> ]<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2711155243\"><div id=\"pwtor-2996137353\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Just before the start of Raw, Paul Heyman&#8217;s &#8220;Heyman Hustle&#8221; website released a sit-down interview between Heyman and Brock Lesnar discussing Lesnar&#8217;s return to UFC in July. Lesnar said he made the decision because he <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2016\/06\/06\/brock-lesnar-talks-paul-heyman-returning-ufc-now-initiated-talks\/\" title=\"Brock Lesnar talks to Paul Heyman about returning to UFC &#8211; why now?, who initiated talks?, more\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,3],"tags":[105,198,1060,71,141],"class_list":["post-22000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news_mma","category-news_wwe","tag-brock-lesnar","tag-paul-heyman","tag-ufc-200","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-summerslam"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/Lesnar_3x2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22000"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22002,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22000\/revisions\/22002"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}