{"id":803878,"date":"2018-04-05T10:03:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-05T14:03:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/?p=803878"},"modified":"2018-04-05T10:04:58","modified_gmt":"2018-04-05T14:04:58","slug":"dana-white-brock-lesnar-is-coming-back-fox11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/news\/dana-white-brock-lesnar-is-coming-back-fox11\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana White: Brock Lesnar is Coming Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_17456\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17456\" style=\"width: 594px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img alt=\"Dana White: Brock Lesnar is Coming Back\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17456\" src=\"https:\/\/wp.usatodaysports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/95\/2016\/07\/545755860.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"594\" height=\"396\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/545755860.jpg 594w, https:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/545755860-555x370.jpg 555w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 594px) 100vw, 594px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">LAS VEGAS, NV &#8211; JULY 9: Brock Lesnar punches Mark Hunt (R) during the UFC 200 event at T-Mobile Arena on July 9, 2016 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Rey Del Rio\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Business is picking up for the UFC.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve got a big pay-per-view this weekend that apparently is tracking well in terms of sales.\u00a0 Dana White states that Conor McGregor will be back in the octagon before the calendar flips to 2019.\u00a0 And now he also promises another one of the company&#8217;s biggest all-time stars, Brock Lesnar, is returning to real fighting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYeah, Brock Lesnar\u2019s coming back,\u201d White told the panel on <em>UFC Tonight\u00a0<\/em>last night. \u201cI don\u2019t know when, but yes he is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Lesnar is currently the WWE&#8217;s Universal Champion, but he is expected to drop the title to Roman Reigns this Sunday at Wrestlemania, after which point his WWE contract is up.<\/p>\n<p>However, he won&#8217;t be jumping right back into the octagon after that.\u00a0 He still has to re-enter the USADA drug testing pool, as well as serve the remaining six months of his drug suspension stemming from his failed tests leading up to UFC 200.\u00a0 Whenever he does return, it will certainly be a boon for business for the promotion &#8211; he&#8217;s been one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/thesportsdaily.com\/2018\/03\/08\/top-ppv-selling-ufc-fighters-of-all-time-fox11-2\/\"  rel=\"noopener\">biggest selling stars<\/a> in the company&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Business is picking up for the UFC.\u00a0 They&#8217;ve got a big pay-per-view this weekend that apparently is tracking well&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":461114,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[605048455,12504,543583741],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.2 (Yoast SEO v22.2) - 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