Brock Lesnar and Cain Velasquez had some promotions in common. The pair competed against each other in the UFC and that carried over into the WWE.

That wasn't the only thing to carry over though. They had ‘friction' in the pro wrestling organization that came from their time in the octagon.

“There’s always going to be friction with that,” Cain Velasquez told Ariel Helwani on MMAFighting’s The MMA Hour. “So yeah, there was, but working together. We didn’t work much, but talking to him just for that little bit, I just know where he comes from, just from that little time spent, and I mean very little. I know what he’s about, and I respect him for that.

“What you see out there when he performs, all that s—t, he lives it, he breathes it. That’s him. That persona that you see, that’s him out there. That’s his true self. Close quarters, he’s obviously more human, but that’s him, and I saw that.”

The WWE was hoping to capitalize on the rivalry Brock Lesnar had with Cain Velasquez in MMA. They fought each other in a big title fight back in 2010. Brock Lesnar put on an entertaining display but ended up losing by TKO to Cain Velasquez.

“I think they wanted me to stay in that MMA zone,” Velasquez expressed. “They wanted me to have that rivalry with Brock, but they really weren’t willing to put the time in to have us work together to really do that. They wanted us to do that, and well, you know how that is.

“It is what it is, man,” he continued. “That was me just going into it and really just trying to figure out what it was. It was all thrown at me at once, a new organization and I was there for whatever anybody needed, as far as to have me build, or whatever they wanted me to build into. I’m sorry to everyone that got let down. That does hurt me as well because I expect a lot out of myself. I expect more for myself.”