All though there is no way I can disagree anymore with your post, I think we can atleast agree that Lesnar won. I want to know who the UFC has in store for his next bout. Maybe a Gonzaga?

what a lack of class. GSP dominated in almost similar fashion yet showed nothing but respect to his opponent afterwards. If Lesnar wants to play the bad guy, then fine. I will root against that donkey based off his antics tonight.

You can make the argument that he went for periods of like 30 seconds without inflicting serious damage, but I don’t see any way I can agree with the belief that he was inactive to the point where the fight needed to be stood up.

He wasn’t going bananas, throwing punches is rapid flurries or anything, but if you were watching Herring’s reaction to being struck by those warhammers, you could tell that Brock was doing plenty to maintain dominance and impose his will on Heath.

Lesnar wasn’t going crazy with activity, but there is no way that fight should have been stood up five or more times. I honestly don’t remember a time when he wasn’t actively improving position or hammering strikes on Herring’s torso/head. Wasn’t a sexy display of G&P, but it was chilling to watch happen.

that’s the fight I wanna see, Carwin VS Lesnar

He looked good, but vulnerable on more than one occasion against Jason MacDonald… a B-level fighter. He will dominate anyone they put in front of him?

But not A.Silva.

Got a chuckle out of me.

... I think that came shortly after Rogan said that a big part of being a champion is retaining the belt. You know, because if you don’t do that you’re not the champion anymore. They had some absolutely brilliant dialogue last night!

Florian fought a back-up-and-counterstrike fight, and I generally really hate that. He also made me mad with that Joe Lauzon fight when he was doing all those elbows to the back of the head. But he executed his gameplan, that’s for sure. I doubt we hear his whole “FINISH FIGHTS” sound byte next time, though ;)

Lesnar’s fight has been discussed to death above, but for certain he proved that his conditioning, power and patience have taken massive steps forward, at least in the eyes of us fans.

GSP is Achilles, and Jon Fitch is Hektor.

Overall, the worst fight was Kongo’s, and even that was mildly entertaining.

A- grade on my card. Not the greatest ever, and maybe not the greatest this year, but certainly a very good card which delivered on many levels and really failed to disappoint in any way.

well that sucks. I like Kongo. But I don’t think at this point and time I don’t think he can beat Lesnar.

Pretty sure that’s the guys name! That’s who I wanna see fight lesnar next

“What good would it do to throw a headkick at him? He’s just gonna throw those iron pistons in the way, and there’s no chance you can get through to his head, so why bother?”

What a freak. And yeah, he probably makes most men feel like women, myself included.

I don’t care about a fight being called a war or whatever. I’ll have to rewatch it again, but Goldy made a reference to the actual war being fought. Maybe someone else knows what I’m talking about?

Good point about other sports’ commentators. Look at Monday Night Football. Tony Kornheiser has no business in the booth.

Nah, he’s more like the Al Michaels of MMA. They are both prone to kissing the company’s ass and using tired catchphrases ad nauseum.

Madden may be annoying at times, but he does have to great insight from playing and coaching in his sport.

Except that John is a color guy and actually offers credible football insight from time to time.

The thing about Goldberg is that not only does he not seem to have gained much, if any, knowledge about the sport he covers over the years, but he’s not even that good calling the action. He literally offers next-to-nothing to the broadcast. He is good at hitting his advertising spots though…

I think what’s worse about that comment is the fact that he’s referencing a fight that happened years ago. And nobody cares about Alex Karalexis.

Maybe not as much as if he’d won, but boy howdy did he impress against an obviously superior opponent. I once saw a wrestling teammate of mine take on a guy who was unquestionably better (and my teammate was a state champion) and give an identical performance to Fitch’s. Set his jaw, stood in there, and fought for the whole match, knowing that he was outclassed. All we needed him to do was keep it to a minor decision in order to win the meet, and he was able to do it.

I’d say Fitch did basically the same thing here tonight. A real Rocky Balboa performance.

GSP/Fitch was an awesome fight. I will stop short of calling it incredible, but it was an impressive display from both men during and after the fight. As much as I like the respect they showed each other afterwards, though, that won’t be discussed much two weeks from now…

What WILL be discussed is that fact that Brock Lesnar is establishing himself as a villain/heel/whatever. That, in the end, is a development in and of itself. I think we’re seeing some very astute marketing being implemented with magician-esque moxy by Dana and Brock. And that’s a significant development for the sport, whether you like it or not.