Brock Lesnar is making his return to MMA at UFC 200 where he will fight Mark Hunt. Ken Shamrock is another fighter who has experience in both MMA and professional wrestling and he recently spoke to Marc Charles of the MMA Talk Show and he talked about why he’s skeptical about Brock’s return to UFC. You can check out a few quotes below, transcribed by MMAFighting.com, along with the full interview.
Lack of consistency possibly hurting Brock:
“I appreciate people making decisions and doing things they want to do but I think he’s jumped back and forth too many times from wrestling to fighting, to wrestling to fighting. I mean this is his third time around I believe. I think it’s going to hurt him, it’s going to mess up his… you’ve got to have consistency.
What Brock needs to work on:
“Well he should have put a little more work into his ground game with his submissions, defensive submissions, and definitely his striking. His striking is horrible. So I think he needed to pay a little bit more attention if he’s gonna come back. He needs to take some time and really focus on that and not just jump back into it because he’s a great wrestler because that’s just not going to get it for him in these days.”
“I think [the UFC and the WWE] are both gonna get something out of it, I’m just not sure it’s gonna be good for him. I hope it is. I really hope he wins because I’d hate to see him lose, even though I like Mark Hunt, but I’d hate to see him lose after having to come back and it doesn’t work out for him. I think it’s gonna hurt him more than it would Mark.”
