During a recent appearance on Ariel Helwani’s ESPN MMA Show, The Undertaker commented on getting into a verbal spat with Brock Lesnar at UFC 121, whether Lesnar knew about it beforehand, and more. You can check out some highlights from the interview below:
On calling out Lesnar at UFC 121: “I was there to pick a fight. Yeah. I was there, I was sent there personally to pick a fight. And you know, I was unaware that Dana had no clue what was going to happen, which I felt horrible about you know, after the fact. I thought there had been some kind of discussion between him and Vince. But it’s like, at that time Brock was so hot in the MMA world, so obviously it’s like, ‘You know what? Why not try it?’ And there was no personal animosity, really. But it was — it was basically me saying, ‘All right, you left our world, I’m-a come into your world and I’m-a going to call you out.’ And that was it, and obviously it was a huge media storm.”
On whether he was seeking an MMA fight or wrestling match: “A wrestling fight. I was trying to get him back in my world. I’m pretty gutsy, but my days of getting in the Octagon are far past me. I mean, I am smart enough to realize that. But I thought, if I could get somebody who — obviously, there was such a history there because of his run with WWE and his success with UFC. I thought, ‘This is huge if I can make it happen.’ So that’s what it was all about.”
On if Lesnar knew he was going to be there: “Yeah, he knew I was going to be there. I don’t know that he knew, you know, I don’t know how much he knew about what I was going to do. And it worked out, because where I was at, you know, he could have went another way. He could have went back, you know, so I got really lucky that he came by us, you know? And actually if you watch back, Michelle, my wife who was with me, kind of nudged me and like, ‘Here he comes.’ Because I don’t even know that I would have done the interview if I had been in the right spot. You know what I mean? And it worked out perfectly for you, it worked out perfectly for me. Because he came right by me. And I was like, ‘You wanna do this?’ And there it was, man … I was hoping I was in the right place at the right time, and everything lined up, man.”
(h/t – 411 Wrestling)
