10 Things We Learned From Brock Lesnar On UFC 200 Media Call

1. Stephanie McMahon Not Supporting His Fight

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Stephanie McMahon's quote from earlier this week is brought up, in which she claims that, contrary to earlier reports the WWE is not supporting or helping promote Brock's fight at UFC 200.

UFC, they can make a big star but the second that person loses, they lose credibility, and how do you continue to make that star rise? So I think we have the best of both worlds and the opportunity to tell the stories in the way we want to tell them.

In Brock Lesnar's case it was really a special case that we are allowing him to do this fight [against Mark Hunt on July 9]. But like you said it's not really a cross-promotional opportunity, but we are allowing him to participate in that fight.

We are not supporting the fight necessarily but, again, it's not a competitor to us and the more that our superstars, that's how we refer to our talent, the more they do outside of WWE, the more awareness it generates and the broader the audience can be that is then brought back into our properties. So we recognize the value of that.

Brock responds in trademark Lesnar fashion by chuckling and saying "I don't care what she says". There was no follow up that statement, and none was really necessary. The amount of f*cks that Brock Lesnar gives about what anyone thinks, including his bosses, are less than zero.

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