Eric Bischoff On Rumors That Brock Lesnar Is Returning To UFC & CM Punk May Jump To Bellator For A Fight

The latest episode of former WCW President Eric Bischoff’s podcast Bischoff on Wrestling was released this past Wednesday! It features the full audio from today’s Bischoff on Wrestling One Year Anniversary LIVE, call-in special.

You can find a portion of Eric’s comments transcribed below.

Eric’s full, in-depth comments can be heard in the embedded audio player at the top of the post.

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On rumors that Brock Lesnar may be headed back to UFC for another fight:

EB: Brock is a unique animal. He is capable of whatever he wants to put his mind to, clearly. I understand it. Brock probably wanted one more fight in the UFC. He probably wanted to end his MMA and UFC career on a high note. I think the fight with Mark Hunt left a bad taste in everyone’s mouth including Brock’s and it was not the way he wanted to end his MMA career. I don’t know Brock very well at all but I know the kind of guy he is and I can understand why he would consider making a return. More power to him.

On Sports Illustrated’s Justin Barrasso’s speculation on a recent episode of WZ Daily that CM Punk may be jumping to Bellator if he can’t get another fight in UFC (answer from the BoW Overrun embedded at the bottom of this post):

EB: It makes sense to me. Do I think it will be a good decision for CM Punk? I still don’t think he’s ever going to be a fighter. He’s too old, he doesn’t have any experience and fighting at any kind of a professional level is not just something you go to a junior college and figure out. You grow up as an amateur wrestler and you start wrestling at five or six years old. As a boxer generally you are learning that skill set in your early teens all the way up to your twenties before you are really at a level you can fight professionally. As a martial artist I can tell you from experience that you don’t get close to being good at it until five, six or seven years into it. For a guy at 35 years old I am sure he’s tough and could kick my ass. I am sure he is a tough guy physically but when you talk about skill sets and what you have to be able to do physically to be able to get in the ring with other skilled fighters. Who have trained their whole lives as wrestlers or boxing or real martial artists? You are never going to be able to compete with them. If Bellator is going to put CM Punk in an octagon will they give him fights with people at his level? Journeymen who are just looking to fight? Maybe that’s the approach. I don’t know but I would say that is a safer bet in Bellator than UFC.

This week’s Bischoff on Wrestling One Year Anniversary LIVE, call-in special features Eric and Nick taking calls and talking about a few of the pro wrestling news headlines from the past week.

Including:

Shane McMahon’s controlled landing in a helicopter earlier in the day
Rumors that Brock Lesnar is headed back to WWE for one more match
Jason Jordan being revealed as Kurt Angle’s son on RAW
The cancellation of Talking Smack
More…

Throughout the show Eric fielded call-in questions from fans regarding:

Whether he would have hired Rinaldo Piven during The Monday Night War
If WWE will get more edgy to keep it’s product competitive
A recent story that Tony Schivone mentioned on his podcast involving Eric
Eric’s experience with the Cauliflower Alley Club
A wild Randy Savage story
If he would rather be on the creative or talent side of pro wrestling at the moment
If he ever considering trying to sign Jim Johnson away from WWE
His advice for young television producers
What WCW angles he wanted to do but never got to
WWE’s current talent pool
Wrestlers who don’t “sell” moves enough
Who in WWE has break out main stream appeal
More…

You can find a special Bischoff on Wrestling Overrun on IRWNetwork.com featuring even more audio from the Bischoff on Wrestling One Year Anniversary LIVE, call-in special.

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