Fighters Only

Issue 124

January 2015

With rumors rife about a possible return to the Octagon for the former UFC heavyweight champion, we ask the MMA universe...

YES

Joe Rogan

UFC commentator

The chances of Brock coming back to the UFC are pretty good. I think Brock has a lot of unfinished business inside the Octagon. I don’t think he’s entirely happy with the way his MMA career ended: the Cain Velasquez loss, the Alistair Overeem loss, then the diverticulitis and all the stomach surgeries. And, you know, it takes a long time to recover from stuff like that. And now he’s fully recovered from all that and he’s in fantastic shape once again then who knows what might happen. He’s certainly thinking about it and you can’t deny what he did the first time around, but there is a window of time where he has to pull that trigger and we are in that now. If he decides to pull that trigger then it’s going to be fascinating.

NO

James Krause

Lightweight submission specialist

21-6

No, I don’t think Brock could come back to MMA and still be a success. The game is evolving every single day and the level of competition has increased since he retired from the sport. You can’t just be a big guy who simply bullies his opponents around, you need to have more than that in your skill-set. Also, during the time he’s been away I’m not sure he’s improved in the certain areas he needs to to make a real impact in the sport. We’ve seen what happens with fighters who have taken time out from fighting for a long time. When they return they realize that a couple years out of the game and it will pass you by.