Brock Lesnar's WWE experience may hinder him in the Octagon, one former MMA star believes.
"The Beast" is slated to fight in the Octagon for the first time since 2011 when he battles Mark Hunt at UFC 200 in a one-off appearance for the promotion on July 9 in Las Vegas. The WWE is allowing the fight to go down in a cross-promotion deal with the MMA organization.
Former WWE Superstar and MMA fighter Ken Shamrock believes Lesnar's return won't go so well because of how much time he's spent away from the cage.
"I appreciate people making decisions and doing things they want to do but I think he's jumped back and forth too many times from wrestling to fighting, to wrestling to fighting," Shamrock told the 'MMA Talk Show' via MMAFighting.com. "I mean this is his third time around I believe. I think it's going to hurt him, it's going to mess up his... you've got to have consistency."
Lesnar left the WWE in 2004 and eventually surfaced in the UFC. He then retired from the mixed martial arts world in 2011 due to a bout with diverticulitis after a run as the UFC heavyweight champion.
"The Beast" resurfaced in the WWE back in 2012 and has been a part-time performer for the last four years. Lesnar is next booked for WWE SummerSlam on Aug. 21 at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn, but he'll first make a stop at the UFC.
Shamrock, who hopped back and forth from the fighting realm to the WWE a couple of times in the past, has his doubts about Lesnar's ability to once again find success in the Octagon.
"When you're a professional athlete, you have to do something for a period of time," Shamrock said. "So if he continues to keep going -- oh he did wrestling first and then he did MMA and then he goes back to wrestling and now he's back to MMA again -- I don't think he's really stabilized himself or set an example for himself in MMA. I mean he was there a short time, then he was gone. I mean he's really done more in pro wrestling than he has done in anything else."
Lesnar's fate will be known in July when he stands across the Octagon from Hunt.
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