Brock Lesnar made his career during a UFC tenure back from 2008 until 2010. He was always the epitome of athleticism and someone who was predisposed for the sport of mixed martial arts.

Last year when UFC was in a huge problem when Jon Jones was pinged by the USADA for the use of an abused substance the UFC honchos went straight to Lesnar, believing him to be a huge pay per view draw. They even made plenty of leniences so Lesnar could appear in the octagon once more.

What many might not realize however is that Lesnar was never quite at his best in the glory days at UFC. His manager revealed :

“I would suggest that Brock is really now in his physical prime because he was robbed of reaching his full potential as an athlete in his 20’s and early 30’s by diverticulitis,” Heyman said on the Fight Society podcast (via FOX Sports). “If you look back at his career, by the time he was in the NCAA Division I wrestling championships, he was already suffering from diverticulitis.”

“His body, which was so fine tuned and he had done so much to train his body to accomplish the goals he had envisioned for himself, his body was suppressing and using up so much energy and so much of his strength and his ability to suppress the diverticulitis, and finally diverticulitis couldn’t be suppressed. He probably had it throughout his entire college career.”

 

“So you never saw him at his full potential in college,” he continued. “You never saw him at his full potential in his first run in WWE. He went into the Minnesota Vikings camp not only with the diverticulitis inside of his system but a broken jaw and a fractured pelvis, which he covered in the book that we wrote together and then you never saw him, not once did you see him in UFC at his absolute physical peak.”

The 39-year-old Lesnar fought MMA last July at UFC 200. After winning a dominant unanimous decision verdict against Mark Hunt, results were overturned to a no contest when he tested positive for clomiphene, a banned substance.