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Post by What? on Oct 11, 2011 19:33:18 GMT -5
PS3.IGN.com is featuring an interview with former WWE star and current UFC fighter Brock Lesnar talking about his involvement in the new "WWE 12" video game.
On his career with the WWE:
"It's one of those things where... it's part of my history. Without the WWE, I probably wouldn't be where I am today. I wouldn't have the high visibility, I wouldn't have had the leverage to come into the UFC. I would have had to do it all on my own. I'm no idiot when I say that when I was with the WWE, the visibility from that company and what they did on a global network for 'Brock Lesnar' as a whole, put me on another level."
If he would ever consider a return to the ring for WWE:
"It would have to be under the right circumstances. I don't know if Mr. McMahon and I could come to the right circumstances. If it was good for me and good for him I think that we could do something. At the end of the day, my life, my character and my profession - I take them very seriously. At the end of the day, if it doesn't help me or my family out, and it doesn't make sense for me to do, then I don't do it. Everything would have to fall in the right place, but would I consider it? Absolutely."
On who he would like to face if he ever returned to the ring:
"[Steve Austin] chicken-sh**ted out on me and walked away and didn't want to participate because he thought that I was getting something too fast too soon and he felt threatened by me. [There is also] a guy that's been on a winning streak for a long time that somebody needs to step up to the plate and finish the winning streak."
What I don't get is that by mid-2003, they didn't know what to do with Brock because what do you do with the guy that already did everything?
I guess that extra missing cherry on bugs him?
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Oct 11, 2011 19:34:22 GMT -5
I like the 'Taker teaser.
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Post by Cronant on Oct 11, 2011 19:35:15 GMT -5
Brock/Taker rumors abound!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2011 19:35:16 GMT -5
Lesnar heelin up nicely.
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Post by Ragnal on Oct 11, 2011 19:37:19 GMT -5
Wasn't it put to rest already that Austin wanted the match done on PPV, the request was denied, and Austin took his ball afterwards?
Is Brock missing that little piece of info?
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Post by Altabane on Oct 11, 2011 19:39:45 GMT -5
Wasn't it put to rest already that Austin wanted the match done on PPV, the request was denied, and Austin took his ball afterwards? Is Brock missing that little piece of info? Probably not, Brock just loves shit talking |
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Post by What? on Oct 11, 2011 19:41:26 GMT -5
Oh yeah, I just caught that...I saw "winning streak" and assumed it was a Goldberg reference.
I think the comment regarding Austin is crap. Stone Cold was booked like garbage since he dropped the strap to Jericho (aside from the Booker T skits lol)...I mean they had him URINATE on Arn Anderson on his last episode as a regular wrestler..
2002 was a weird year altogether. The product in December 2002 was unrecognizable from the one in January 2002...Hogan, HBK, dropped angles, Jericho fizzing out, Lesnar eating people, Mark Henry wrestled a car in his 8 minute return, X-Pac wore Kane's mask, HLA...it made 2001 seem like smooth sailing as far as audibles in storylines..
BUT...the roster that year was up their with 1992's. Incredible.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2011 19:44:30 GMT -5
Wasn't it put to rest already that Austin wanted the match done on PPV, the request was denied, and Austin took his ball afterwards? Is Brock missing that little piece of info? Even though I agree that Austin vs. Lesnar was a PPV match and not a RAW match it still doesn't excuse the way Austin acted imo. Can you imagine Cena, upon being told that he was wrestling Rey Mysterio in a WWE title match on RAW, saying "Nope. I'm not doing it. That's a PPV match, not a TV match." then getting on a plane, going home and refusing to answer anyone's calls? |
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Post by thecrocksays on Oct 11, 2011 20:01:14 GMT -5
Austin pulled a lot of crap around that time. Not wanting to work Hogan, refusing to put over Hall, walking out, coming back, not putting over Lesnar, walking out again. Of course, you can't blame him in retrospect (given Hall's track record and Brock quitting), but at the time he screwed the company over royally. I think he knew he was done.
Stuff like this really reminds you that Vince has either changed the way they market guys, or just got lucky that this current generation of main eventers are more dedicated to the company/business than guys like Austin, Rock, Goldberg and Brock were.
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Post by mrjl on Oct 11, 2011 20:23:15 GMT -5
Wasn't it put to rest already that Austin wanted the match done on PPV, the request was denied, and Austin took his ball afterwards? Is Brock missing that little piece of info? Austin supposedly wanted the match built to. Austin wrestled his final match less than a year later, despite a six month layoff. He had to know his body was betraying him and that his time left was limited. Properly building a feud between Brock and Austin at that point in Austin's career would have ended Austin's career before the match happened. |
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Post by derrtaysouth95 on Oct 11, 2011 20:25:24 GMT -5
I think Austin at the end of his time was acting like HBK did in his first prime. Being a bitchy diva.
You do as your employer asks...you are not bigger than your employer or the company/sport.
Austin was right in saying that him vs Lesnar was a ppv quality match. But if that was the case...why not ask for the finish to be changed so it's a DQ and a brawl setting up a real ppv match?
It should have been handled better and could have been. He kept walking out which is unprofessional.
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Post by mrjl on Oct 11, 2011 20:28:44 GMT -5
I think Austin at the end of his time was acting like HBK did in his first prime. Being a bitchy diva. You do as your employer asks...you are not bigger than your employer or the company/sport. Austin was right in saying that him vs Lesnar was a ppv quality match. But if that was the case...why not ask for the finish to be changed so it's a DQ and a brawl setting up a real ppv match? It should have been handled better and could have been. He kept walking out which is unprofessional. that wouldn't have worked because it was a KoTR qualifier and they used KoTR to set up Brock's title win. |
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Post by thelonewolf527 on Oct 11, 2011 20:49:01 GMT -5
Hogan apparently said the same thing with Lesnar in that he didn't want to face him on regular tv and wanted to be built up to it in which he'd then put Brock over on PPV.
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Post by mrjl on Oct 11, 2011 20:58:09 GMT -5
Hogan apparently said the same thing with Lesnar in that he didn't want to face him on regular tv and wanted to be built up to it in which he'd then put Brock over on PPV. except Hogan did put Brock over on free tv |
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Post by rnrk supports BLM on Oct 11, 2011 21:03:31 GMT -5
While I think it's immensely hypocritical that Austin is given a free pass by the sort of fans who work themselves up into vitrolic outrage over Hogan or any of the Kliq, Lesnar comes across as a complete mark for himself, the way he always does.
It feels like he's decided to stop disparaging WWE and start making overtures towards them again because he's now realized that getting his ass beaten up in a real fight is even more humiliating than having it happen in a fake one.
Good luck with getting that Undertaker match at 'Mania that you're begging for, buddy.
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Post by Kevin Hamilton on Oct 11, 2011 21:20:25 GMT -5
While I think it's immensely hypocritical that Austin is given a free pass by the sort of fans who work themselves up into vitrolic outrage over Hogan or any of the Kliq, Lesnar comes across as a complete mark for himself, the way he always does. It feels like he's decided to stop disparaging WWE and start making overtures towards them again because he's now realized that getting his ass beaten up in a real fight is even more humiliating than having it happen in a fake one. Good luck with getting that Undertaker match at 'Mania that you're begging for, buddy. I'll give ya the 'complete mark for himself' maybe, as Brock does always seem to think pretty highly of himself; but don't get the rest of that at all given that he's lost a grand total of two fights ever, and conceivably in the near future be right back in title contention for the UFC heavyweight belt as a rematch with Cain or a title fight with Dos Santos depending on their fight and provided Brock wins his next one would do huge amounts of $$$. If anything I think it'd be the other way around, the 'E could use him a lot more than he needs to 'beg' them for anything. I do think it's cool they appear to have a cordial relationship now. |
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Post by derrtaysouth95 on Oct 11, 2011 21:33:39 GMT -5
Yeah...I don't think Lesnar needs WWE he's just realized where he came from so he's giving them credit.
WWE should could use Lesnar right about now though. Product needs help.
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Post by crimsonwolf on Oct 11, 2011 22:03:46 GMT -5
Wasn't it put to rest already that Austin wanted the match done on PPV, the request was denied, and Austin took his ball afterwards? Is Brock missing that little piece of info? Even though I agree that Austin vs. Lesnar was a PPV match and not a RAW match it still doesn't excuse the way Austin acted imo. Can you imagine Cena, upon being told that he was wrestling Rey Mysterio in a WWE title match on RAW, saying "Nope. I'm not doing it. That's a PPV match, not a TV match." then getting on a plane, going home and refusing to answer anyone's calls? I don't think the comparison really works since Cena was booked to go over Rey, not job like they wanted Austin too. I do think Austin was being incredibly unprofessional during that period, but at the same time he had a point. The WWE was going to give a PPV-quality match away free on TV. Something like Brock vs Austin should have been something they built up to a PPV match.It would be like having the big Rock vs Cena match free on TV. But then again, the WWE had a weird habit of doing this during that period. Kurt Angle Vs Brock Lesnar Iron-man Match and Brock Lesnar vs Hulk Hogan were both strangely done on Smackdown. |
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Post by lildude8218 on Oct 11, 2011 22:06:08 GMT -5
Austin fought Big Show on free TV and had no problems with it. that would've been a nice PPV match.
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Post by DZ: WF Legacy on Oct 11, 2011 22:17:22 GMT -5
Austin's chicken s*****d on him? That has to suck. I'd be upset, too.
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