Dana White: 'Shaq wants to fight Brock Lesnar'

[snakerattle79]

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Where does one go after dunking on a 13-ton shark? What's the next step after defeating Damon Jones with a plastic knife and killer dance moves? Well, if you're Shaquille O'Neal(notes) you challenge the UFC heavyweight champion of the world.

UFC president Dana White joined "Into The Night with Tony Bruno" to discuss UFC 100's impressive ratings, the possibility of a Brock Lesnar-Fedor Emelianenko match, and the desire of The Big Diesel/Witness/Twitter to step inside the octagon with the Coors Light-drinkin' champ. Sports Radio Interviews transcribes the gold:

"Shaq texts and Twitters me all the time saying he wants to fight Brock Lesnar. He's been training for 10 years; Shaq's probably the only dude in the NBA that can actually fight ... I told Shaq, I said listen, 'Win another NBA championship this year and then we'll talk next year.'"

White's right; Shaq's yearning to get in the cage is nothing new. He's been training with Jonathan Burke of Gracie's Gym for 10 years now, where he does the full gamut of MMA, boxing, jiu-jitsu, Muay Thai and wrestling. Cagewriter spoke with Burke in May who said that O'Neal "works his tail off" during drills and "has way more talent with this stuff than people would imagine." And again, he dunked on a freakin' shark!

It's a long shot to ever happen, but Shaq vs. Brock ... I would pay good money to see that.

[Stumbleweed]

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Haha yeah I was reading their Twitters back and forth around UFC 100 and thought this was funny. I would love to see Shaq give it a go just to see what someone who is/was such a freaky athlete and absolutely gigantic (would make Brock look like a kid) could do. If he really has been training for that long (I remember Shaq-Fu, but I don't think that's a real martial art ha) and can hold his own, they should feed him a can to start off with and see what happens.

[sb24]

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Shaq actually trains in MMA already

The fact that i actually want to see this

"Shaq texts and Twitters me all the time saying he wants to fight Brock Lesnar. He's been training for 10 years; Shaq's probably the only dude in the NBA that can actually fight ... I told Shaq, I said listen, 'Win another NBA championship this year and then we'll talk next year.'"

Go win another chapionship shaq, then ill let you fight. This one definatly got me rotflmao

[Pappy Knuckles]

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Let's make it happen Dana lol.

[sven]

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Well he's not the ONLY person in the NBA that can fight......

http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/blog/cagewriter/post/James-Johnson-The-NBA-first-round-pick-with-qui?urn=mma,172202

[BSanders]

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This is what happens when your Basketball career is almost over say anything to get some attention. He would be another Canseco.....

[jeff12323]

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Shaq would got rocked by Lesnar. Lesnar would just take him down and Shaw would never be able to get up. Lesnar is a freak of nature that likes coors better than bud light.

[VanCitySportsGuy]

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Shaq can fight?

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Look at the 41 to 53 seconds mark.

Chuck took him town and than Shaq couldn't connect against a guy with his back turned to him.

50% of the fighters in the NHL could probably beat Shaq in a fight.

[sven]

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Shaq can fight?

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Look at the 41 to 53 seconds mark.

Chuck took him town and than Shaq couldn't connect against a guy with his back turned to him.

50% of the fighters in the NHL could probably beat Shaq in a fight.

It said he started training 10 years ago. That video with Barkley is 10 years old. He probably started training the very next day. he showed much better for against Miller.

[Benz87]

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Shaq is to slow, lesnar would go circles around him, he doesnt look to flexible either. Maybe he could throw haymakers standing up but he would get taken down easily.

[ManiacMatt1782]

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I dont doubt that shaq can fight. but shaq probably wont make 265.

[stlstudios189]

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I would actually want to see this fight.