Daniel Cormier, UFC Light Heavyweight Champion, appeared on The Steve Austin Show – Unleashed.
Austin and Cormier talked about a few WWE Superstars who became UFC Fighters, including CM Punk and Brock Lesnar.
Thoughts on CM Punk:
“Phil [Brooks] is a great guy. He’s so smart, a different type of guy.” Punk is one of the greatest Money in the Bank briefcase holders of all time.”
“I hear that what he’s doing is he’s going through the team at Roufusport, so he started with the lowest guy on the totem pole. He gets to walk to the octagon, they let him walk, they let him spar three rounds like he’s in a fight, and then they judge it and see how he does. And as he gets better, he progresses to the next guy.”
On Brock Lesnar:
“I met Brock Lesnar in 1998. I was in Colby Community College; Brock was wrestling for Bismarck [State] College, and I was like, ‘wow, who is that big biscuit in the heavyweight division winning the national championship?’ It was Brock Lesnar! Then I went to Oklahoma State and he wrestled for Minnesota and I saw this dude at every turn. Then, when I got in the UFC, I saw Brock Lesnar once in California. This was after he went back to WWE. He was in the back with Paul Heyman. No, with Marty, Marty Morgan, and he asked Marty, he goes, ‘is that Cormier? He’s tiny’ and I saw him mouth that I was tiny because I was a heavyweight at the time, but I was like, ‘holy s–t, look at the size of this monster!'”
