It wasn’t the final time Brock Lesnar competed in the literal world of fighting, but the lasting image was of him frothing alarmingly at the mouth and ranting like a lunatic after beating Frank Mir at UFC 100. That was the Brock Lesnar that broke the UFC’s pay-per-view records, the one that Conor McGregor has been indirectly gunning for ever since. That was the grumpy, red-hued, trail-of-zeroes-on-the-paycheck star from the world of pro wrestling, back when the sword on his thorax was pointing one direction and one direction only: up up up.
Now, some four-and-a-half years since he last appeared, Lesnar’s returning at UFC 200 against Mark Hunt.