WWE-stjärnan Brock Lesnar kommer nu att göra sin comeback i UFC när han möter Mark Hunt under UFC 200, efter att ha varit borta från MMA sedan slutet av 2011 då han gick med förlust mot Alistair Overeem under UFC 141.
Lesnar missbrukade under en tid den smärtstillande medicinen Vicodin och vodka när han gick med i WWE, något som han nu valt att prata ut om under en intervju med ESPN.
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That was the early years of me when I was a young performer in the wrestling ring. You go through things in life such as you become rich and you become famous and you’re naïve and you’re young and to top it all off you’re travelling 360 days a year. The wrestling is fake but the things that go on in the ring – the ring is still a very non-forgiving environment to be in so you’re dealing with a lot of different injuries at one time.
Not only that, I’m not a man to be on the highway. I’m not a man to be in a hotel room every night. I’m not a man to be in an airplane every day and it took all that for me to discover that and to cope with all that was my best friends, vodka and Vicodin.
It was full of booze and Vicodin and being stuck on an airplane for seven hours on an overseas trip. What else are you gonna do? Besides maybe pass out and fall asleep or get into trouble. We did both. We got into a scuffle on the plane. It’s called whisky wrestling. Have you ever done it? You should try it sometime. [Laughs]”
Honestly I was drunk and high. I couldn’t even tell you what happened. All I know is when we got off the plane we got reprimanded and that’s it.
When you’re young, it’s fresh and it’s cool but is it really cool to be up all night, not getting any sleep, and then getting on an airplane, getting off an airplane, trying to find a place to eat, dealing with people at the rental car service, dealing with TSA, dealing with the hotel, dealing with the loss of your luggage? What’s cool about it? [Laughs.]
Anybody that’s a superstar, anybody that’s a movie star, it’s not what you think it is. It’s not all smoke and mirrors and it’s not all glitz and glamour. It is hard work. It’s a full-time job. It’s not very glamorous. You have to go and perform every single night in front of different people that haven’t seen you before and it’s like you’re a hamster on a treadmill. That’s how I felt.
I’m thankful I’m able to work part-time in that environment and step back into the octagon. I feel very fortunate.
