Brock Lesnar announces his retirement from MMA competition

Retirement = WWE..."walk on home boy" - Pantera

na na na na, na na na na, hey hey hey hey gooooodbyyyeeee!



There was no way on earth lesnar was going to survive agaisnt arguably the best striker at hw. Lesnar those not belong in the cage, after he ate some of those knees his face went red, i'm even surprised he lasted that long.



now he can go back to wwe where he belongs afterall he appeared in the latest wwe game... if this fight wasnt all hype, what da f u c k is a ufc fighter doing in a wwe game?

How did you pass the second grade with your spelling would be the first question!!!

Lesnar was just there for the money. No heart. I've never seen a guy of his size just blatantly give up so often. He tapped due to strikes against Cain, some people thought he tapped due to strikes against Shane and the ref missed it.



Baddest man on the planet ? Far from it.

i knew Lesnar would retire when the fight vs Overeem was official

i never got into the Lesnar hype , i knew it was all about the money

that Dana saw when he got Lesnar into the UFC with his WWE

fan base, easy path fpr Lesnar to become Champ , lost his debut, then instant title fight after 1 single win against a non Top 10 HW



even fights for the title before the Interim Champion ??

beats Couture a 47 years old 218lbs fighter with difficulty

and he becomes the baddest man on the planet?

Shame on you Dana hope you learn your lesson.



I'm glad that hype train is over, now Overeem is the real thing

Overeem vs Dos Santos is going to be a fight for the ages

i expect it to be the best Heavyweight fight we ever see ever!



Kinda like Henderson vs Shogun a fight for the ages.

What lesson is there for Dana to learn? He made more money from Brock's star power than he's ever made off MMA greats like Couture or Liddell. I'm sure he'd happily bring another WWE star into the fold if they had the supernatural athleticism and wrestling pedigree of Lesnar.

Brocks retirement was kinda over due, im glad he did it though

i was never a lesnar fan but fair play to the guy, he came into the sport with no mma background and traded with the top fighters in the world. retirement was a good choice i didnt see a future for him after that demolition.

I guess the bandwagon haters have one less guy to hate on, silva is feeling sorta lonely now.



Brock could really have been a dominating force in this sport, he just bit off wayyyy more than he could chew taking on the very very best in the world in his first few fights. If he had more experience shoring up his weaknesses it would have been a completely different story.



Pride comes before destruction.

Actually, I think "Destruction" was Pride 14, wasn't it?

I think he shouldda made the move to 205 before deciding to retire. He could be a top light heavyweight for sure.

If you take away Brock's size and ferocity / personality he didn't have enough left to make it in MIXED martial arts. He made it interesting for a couple of years though.

**** I wanted to see him doing hamerfist on overeem's face. overeem is good but too ****y . I hope JDS Knock him out

Cut from 295 to 205 he would look like Angelina Jolie .

Hi Pecs would have come down to his waist.

All he'd need to do is catch Diverticulitis again to make the cut.

Overeem made his tummy hurt.

Retirement = I am rich and I'm still have decades to party like a star!

Then he is going to get diverticulitis and he might actually die from the surgery if he is gonna party and drink like an idiot

By party like a star you mean go hide in the woods, drink some Coors Light, mount his wife and violate the occasional hunting regulations than yes, yes he will.

Hats off to lesnar, did a lot in his short career

Brock was ALL HYPE. We've been saying it for years!!!!!



Never beat anyone who wasn't old (Granpa Randy), all hype (Carwin) or a Nobody (Mir x2). Oh wait, he did beat old whipping boy Heath. So I guess there is that one victory.

Weak him all you want but he's right. It was all hype. I usually like Dana's straight talk but he jumped the shark on Brock. I get that he was a promoter, but c'mon. I never saw it- glad he's gone. Maybe it will silence the rediculous hype (and stupid articles and defenders of same here on this site) once and for all. Bas Rutten had it right after the Cain fight- he's a guy that can't take a punch, period..

A Nobody (Mir) who just broke Big Nog's arm

mir isnt a push over, size was the factor in that fight.

randy.. age. and size won him that one.. a 235 randy in his prime i think would have beat a 235 brock

Brock was not ALL hype but def used by dana to his advantage, but i mean in dana's shoes.. wouldnt you have done the same thing?.. its all about the dollar son.

Wow, if you think someone getting crushed by Overeem means that someone was all hype, you've clearly never seen that behemoth throw down.

This coming from a guy who just walks away when a guy grabs his wife's ass! You never been in a fight in your life bro so stop calling fighters nobodies and all hype

I knew overeem would win, its not easy to get accustomed to receive punishment, brock never did, had a good career though. Hope he has a good life and gets over his disease.

especially getting accustomed to pain at that late in your life. brock would have been and even bigger beast had he come straight out of college wrestling but he went to wwe instead.. brock's mistake was that he came into the wwe at such a late age for fighting and was put against the top of the division

came into the ufc my bad

Mir is going to be so pissed not getting a third bout with lesnar :)

Mir is pissed because he wanted, really bad, for Brock to win so his MMA math would add up in his favor.

Alistair vs Dos Santos = Jizz in my pants.

Its funny cause your name is Boner

TMI.

Say what yah want but he achieved in MMA what would take most people ten years, in 4 fights. Brock had an amazing short career and with all those surgeries it was time to go. If Brock still chose to fight, he probably woulda got diverticulitis again and died actually.

But in short hats off to Lesnar for doing what he did

In all fairness, he was handed his title shot/contender fight way faster than anyone else would've gotten one. It was like they had one lying around that was addressed to Jon Fitch and they decided to regift it to Brock.

Wicked knees Overeem!!! Nice work all around on his part. Good to see Brock hang it up... have a feeling he will be back one more time... who knows.



On a positive note... at least Fitch finally gave us an exciting fight! LOL



Hatch

I could see him talking his family into one more fight to address the inevitable smack talk that will come from Mir about him running away. We might get to see that rubber match yet.

bro alistair won, not you! quit acting like a badass

says the one with the clown picture

dude why are you so pissed i bet you are A) a mir fan

B) a herring fan

c) a couture fan

or D) a carwin fan

Lesnar got kicked in the liver so hard that he was forced to retire.

Maybe now "got kicked in the liver" can replace "took an arrow to the knee".

didn't understand Brock....why did he try to stand up with him? I was expecting Brock to come out rushing like a bull and go straight for the take down and do what he's amazing at. :/ Gl Brock.....I still love you bro.

thoughess son of a bitch huh??pathetic....

Brock was overhyped by Dana White in the first place.

Brock is a drama princess. Its always about him. Just say you're retired and stfu. You were exposed as being not that good of a fighter, so you quit. You beat up Mir and an old 205lb Randy, you got lucky with Shane, ran away from Cain after he smacked you and now you just got Reemed badly - hardly a legacy dude. Stop acting like you have one.



Heres your paycheck - now get lost.



Go Reem

I jus love this comment

I can see Dana White posting this exact comment now that Brock's no longer of any use to him promotion wise.

brock lester.. the arlovski of 2008-2011.. super hyped but when it came down to it... he falls apart.no offense to arlovski though, he was just hyped by dana bc he looks like such a badass. i hope jacksons can get him back into the UFC, he needs to work his sambo again and not just rely on strikes.

now brock has to deal with liver failure... damn.. tough break.. haha

Brock showed how far you can get with speed, size, ferocity, and good wrestling. In the end, he could not evolve his game, and ended up being a one-trick-pony. He also did not seem to handle adversity in the octagon very well.



Heavyweights have often been the least technical of the weight classes, relying more on brawn than technique. Brock played his part in forcing the division to level up in wrestling and TDD. Also, very few serious contenders are below 240 lbs. now--I think he raised the minimum weight requirement in the HW division.



He is a multi-millionaire, and no doubt he will be a wrestling star once more--who can legitimately claim to have 'once' been the baddest man on the planet.

I agree he is a 1 trick pony, but Brock's biggest achilles heel is his inability to absorb punishment, and his belief in his own hype.

I disagree. Brock loves himself, nothing else. Mega ego and a bunch of ass kissers around him- Dana included.

It's like none of you people know what diverticulitis is and how hard it is to recover from. This man shouldn't have been fighting at all. Someone with a diseases like that are not even suppose to get touched in the mid section area getting kicked by overeem and your asking for death..

he went from a ****y dbag to a humble respectful fighter. good decision

FINALLY!!!!!,at LAST!!!!! this BUM never belonged in the UFC!!!!! never!!!! back to the WWE you POSER!!!!!!Dana was just in love with your nutsack since day 1 that's why you are so OVERRATED!!!!! goodbye chump,keep hunting deer,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,ha,LMAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Brock had only 8 fights but has had just a big imapct and done just as much for our sport as any other fight in the histo of MMA. H has broght more fansd than any other fighter and noone can deny they looked forward to him fighting.



It's crazy that Brock fought a former world champion and current title contender in his SECOND mma fight with no previous experience except wrestling. He won the HW world championship in his FOURTH mma fight... are you kidding me!!! It even took Jon Jones 14 fights to get his title!



Brock may not be the best fighter to ever grace the octagon but he was a beast and he has one of the toughest resumes in HW history - last 4 fights were Overeem, Velasquez, Carwin, Mir. I hope people take the time to realise he fought constant talent at the elite of the MMA world and even fought Overeem (technically the best kickboxer in the world currently, K-1 WGP champ) even though he is apparently afraid of getting hit.



Brock, thank you for all you have done for our sport and he fights you put on, in my opinion you are a all time heavyweight great.

The man was a pay per view king. People that don't know crap about MMA knew about Brock

Cant believe fans can be so disrespectful to fighters... Its different to criticize than act like total ****ing asshole and disrespect fighters when you dont fight you dont have that opinion...

good decision there brock!



so long!!

bobby lashley gonna take brocks place now as an WWE turn into UFC Freak Of NATURE

kurt angle would have been a beast in mma, did u see him in warrior?!

I'm not surprise that Lesnar retired. I think he got a taste of a heavy hitting HW when he meet Carwin but since he won it might have gotten to his head that surviving Carwin's assault the rest of the division would be a cake walk... How wrong he was..

Hehehe I am so happy that he is gone!



Dana White did his best to sale this guy as a top mma fighter but it was all in vain, I was always sure that he was just a big hype!



bye bye Lesnar hahahaha this is too hard for you!!

Well I think disease took a lot from him... But who cares.

One chapter ends, another begins. Never one of Brock's biggest fans. Was a hater, but only of the ridiculous hype he used to get from muscle worshipping fans to Dana White, but credit to Brock, he gave it a go. It takes balls to get it on and he certainly did that. Think he's made the right decision though. Good luck to him in retirement and shed a few pounds dude, all that muscle gonna dissolve into blubber, already happening to him from looks of him last night.

This site has really gone down hill in the last couple of years, way too many idiots on here now!

youll be missed getting stomped or delivering a stomping he was fun to watch..

Regardless , take 12 inches of intestines out and take a hit to the body like that from a pro striker only 7 months later, i dont think so - you cant say that person is fully healed internally. Nothing away from Overeem BUT we all have to give Brock credit for getting in there and atleast trying to perform

i really wanted to see if brock was gonna unleash some new dance moves in this fight

wether you like him or not, coming into the ufc with little experience in mma, and becoming a top contender is hard work. Watch his videos of his training, he trains like mad. He isnt in it for money or fame because he had that with the WWE. He took a shot at another career and faught top contenders. I respect what the guy has accomplished in the sport, and although he may not go down as one of the best, he still deserves respect from fans. Just cause you dont like him, dont take away what he has done. Personally, i'll miss his fights.

You know what, Brock did accomplish alot in a short time. Pretty amazing considering how hard it must be for him to throw a punch without stomping on the ground to make it sound better.