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Brock Lesnar says Junior Dos Santos is in his way, believes he will again be UFC Heavyweight Champion
Mar 16, 2011 - 9:30:45 PM Brock Lesnar says Junior Dos Santos is in his way, believes he will again be UFC Heavyweight Champion

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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

At the end of this month, Brock Lesnar will make his return to UFC television in a big way as one of the coaches on the 13th season of The Ultimate Fighter opposite Junior Dos Santos. Though many fans and writers questioned whether or not Lesnar would stick with the sport following a crushing loss to Cain Velasquez last October, Lesnar is making it clear that, despite the loss, this is his calling.

"This is who I am, this is who I've been my whole life and I finally found myself [in fighting]," Lesnar said in a new video promo for The Ultimate Fighter. "I was an amateur wrestler, then I was a professional wrestler and then I tried out to be a professional football player. I'm a professional ultimate fighter."

Lesnar, along with his all-star team of coaches that includes Marty Morgan, Erik Paulson, Greg Nelson and Rodrigo "Comprido" Medeiros, took on the task of coaching seven welterweights throughout the filming of the show, and for Lesnar the goal was to better everyone on his team to the best of their abilities.

"A lot of these kids they're here because they want a better life," Lesnar said. "They want to provide a better living for their family. They want to be a fighter, just like me. We've got six, seven weeks with these kids to try to get them to execute and win fights, and they're not all going to win, that's the beauty of it.

"My guys and myself are committed to these young fighters. We want to do whatever we can to polish these guys up, get them in the Octagon and beat Team Dos Santos."

Now, after the loss to Velasquez, Lesnar will step back into the cage on June 11 to face Dos Santos in Vancouver, and a win gets him another shot at the man who took his title. For Lesnar, that's all he's focused on.

"I just suffered a huge loss; that's fighting," he said. "That's the name of the game, that's the world. As the world turns, people win, people lose; get your ass back on the saddle and ride into town again."

"This guy's in my way, and that's the only thing I give a s*** about. He's in my way to get my title back. I was, and I will be again, the UFC Heavyweight Champion of the World."

[Lesnar art by Travis Beaven (c) MMATorch.com]