Former Head Of UFC PR Discusses Her Role In Brock Lesnar's Announcement To Stay With WWE

Former UFC head of public relations Jennifer Wenk was interviewed by MMA Junkie and spoke about her involvement in Brock Lesnar's announcement to stay with the WWE. Here are the highlights:

Being told to set up the announcement:

"It's about ten o'clock at night and I'm just about to get into bed and my phone rings, and I look at it and it's a name I recognize and I answer the phone. It's Brock's manager, and he said 'Have you been following what's going on in the news?'" I said, "Yeah I think so.' He said 'Well, Brock made a decision and we want to announce it tomorrow.' Keep it mind, it's one o'clock eastern time. He's like 'So, Brock wants you to do it. What are we going to do?'"

Making the announcement:

"We went through a few different scenarios right there and then on the phone. We talked about doing a press conference, we talked about doing a conference call, but the biggest thing was that we didn't want the news to leak. Which is why he called me to do it, because he knows I know the UFC very well and I knew the WWE very well. He wanted someone independent to make it so that he could announce it himself."

Dana White and Paul Heyman being at SportsCenter when Lesnar made the announcement:

"I was he's going to go back to the UFC because Dana's there obviously doing his part. So I get a call and it's Brock's manager and he's like 'Paul Heyman's at the SportsCenter studios with Dana. (Brock's manager was) like 'Did you book it?' 'No, do you think someone at SportsCenter told somebody?' And I'm like 'I don't know!' And from eleven o'clock until three o'clock when he got there I was Googling every thirty seconds waiting for it to leak."

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