In 2010, The Undertaker appeared in the audience for UFC 121, a pay-per-view event that was headlined by Brock Lesnar vs. Cain Velasquez. The show was infamous for the staredown between the Dead Man and the Beast Incarnate, which was meant to build toward a payoff match.
Unfortunately, Lesnar didn’t return to WWE until 2012. But on a recent episode of the Hawk vs. Wolf podcast, The Undertaker revealed that UFC President Dana White didn’t know anything about the confrontation between himself and Lesnar at UFC 121.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
The confrontation at UFC 121: “No, I was, I was strictly there to to pick a fight. But pick a fight on our format [wrestling], not his format [MMA]. And it took — I don’t know, we did that and then nothing happened… not until years later.”
White being unaware of it happening: “Unbeknownst to Vince or myself, Dana had no clue what was going on. Yeah, and we weren’t aware of the fact that Dana did not know that I was going to do that. And he was not happy. Yeah, he was not happy that some guy from the WWE is challenging his biggest draw. And yeah, but we thought he was on board with it.”
How the match didn’t happen until WrestleMania 30: “It probably could have been [a win-win for everyone]. But again, it didn’t happen for years. I mean it was years later before he got out, he left UFC and then came back to the WWE. So we jumped the gun a little bit on the timing, but it was a buzz in the MMA community.”
If Undertaker ever considered training for MMA: “Oh no. It was too late in the game for me to switch over and and train for an MMA fight.”
