Subhojeet Mukherjee on July 19, 2025
UFC legend Daniel Cormier has now explained why he never fought Brock Lesnar inside the octagon.
While speaking to Demetrious Johnson, Daniel Cormier explained why the highly anticipated fight between him and Brock Lesnar never happened. According to him, Lesnar was actually ready to make the move, but WWE ended up paying him more money to stay.
At one point, it could have been Cormier vs. Lesnar when Cormier fought Derrick Lewis in New York. However, WWE offered the Beast Incarnate so much money that he chose to stay with the company. From Lesnar’s perspective, it made sense since he could earn a lot of money performing limited moves like suplexes in WWE.
On the other hand, fighting Cormier in the octagon would have been a real fight where he’d try to kill Lesnar. Cormier believes Brock made the right choice in the end.
“So, Brock actually came, and then WWE paid him more to stay. Yeah, they paid him more to stay. We danced the dance for a while. It could have been Brock and I when I fought Derrick Lewis in New York. But yeah, they paid him so much to stay. He was such a big star there. Oh yeah. He could make money going out there and doing nothing but suplexes, or go fight me in an octagon—which, that s*** is real. And I’m real and I’m gonna try to kill him. Yeah. Right. So, it’s like, yeah, he made the best choice.”
When asked if a potential match could still happen in WWE someday, Cormier shut down the idea by revealing that Brock Lesnar is currently on the TKO ban list. He added that Brock got into a lot of trouble and even tried to hold him up at one point.
“I mean, Brock is on the ban list right now. Oh, dude. Brock got in so much trouble. You know he tried to hold me up and s***. You know what Brock did? Bro is in so much trouble.”
WWE has kept Brock Lesnar off television until the legal issues are fully resolved after he was named in Janel Grant’s lawsuit against Vince McMahon and others last year. Regardless, fans feel it’s a shame Lesnar and Cormier didn’t face each other despite their 2018 confrontation and they’ll have to accept it’ll never happen.
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July 19, 2025 10:09 am
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