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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
The strange confrontation between Mark Calaway, a.k.a the WWE's The Undertaker, and former UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar following Lesnar's UFC 121 loss to Cain Velasquez has been the back drop to reports and rumors of an offer to Lesnar to return to the WWE to face The Undertaker.
Furthering the notion that the confrontation - caught on camera by MMAFighting.com as Ariel Helwani was interviewing Calaway - was a pre-planned situation is a report from Jason Powell at ProWrestling.net. According to Powell, a "well placed source" within WWE insists the confrontation was an angle done without the blessing of UFC President Dana White.
The report further states that, according to the source, a small group within WWE knew ahead of the event that something was going to happen between the two men.
For his part, White has stated that Lesnar is under contract to the UFC and will not be doing anything with the WWE.
Penick's Analysis: If this was some type of angle I think it was all on Calaway and the WWE, and that he went there with the intention of confronting Lesnar whether it was on camera or not. I can't imagine Lesnar being involved with some type of angle under the UFC's nose, especially coming into a major title defense. It would be stupid of him to go into that fight with something like this in the back of his mind. I still contend that I don't think there's a chance Lesnar's doing anything with the WWE here, and it certainly won't be a match. Lesnar will be back to the UFC, and he'll attempt to work back to a title shot. Saturday was not the end of him in MMA.
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