I agree, being in shape for professional wrestling is not the the same as being in shape for MMA. Just look at ballerinas, the women are incredibly athletic, and even have to have an extremely high pain tolerance (you try balancing on the top of your toes, if you can even get there and hold it, you’ll probably cry in pain ), but they would get destroyed in a MMA fight with Gina.

Herring has been training with some pretty good collegiate wrestlers from what I read on another forum.

People used to say the same exact thing about Bob Sapp. I’d see Herring chopping him down with repeated leg kicks and using a stiff jab to try and keep him at bay. What would be hilarious though is to see Brock dash at him and eat an uppercut and hit the mat.

Excellent idea…. hit him in the face. Why hasn’t anyone tried this gameplan before?

Probably because he’s only really had one fight so far and he tapped out before he got a chance to get punched in the face.

If I recall correctly, Cheick Kongo was a pretty huge physical freak of nature, but with proven unbelievable cardio. Before that fight, most people expected Kongo to be able to have his way with Herring because Kongo’s such a physical freak, too. Not to mention that Kongo was coming off a victory against Cro-Cop. Instead, Herring was able to scramble, survive on the ground, and pull out a victory.

I’m not suggesting that Kongo is necessarily as strong as Lesnar. But there are some similarities in both being huge physical specimens. Kongo is more of a striker, for sure, but the biggest difference seems to me that Kongo was somebody that everybody knew had crazy cardio and he was coming off a win against one of the all time greats. Lesnar’s cardio in mma is completely unproven, and he’s coming off a very quick submission loss to somebody everyone around here seems to think is a low-tier fighter (although I strongly disagree with that assessment of Mir).

I think come Saturday night there are going to be a lot of people who should be coming on here and owning up to underestimating how Herring might be able to do against this “great” Brock Lesnar. If it turns out that he steamrolls Herring, I’ll come back and eat my words. I just don’t understand the disrespect for Herring’s history, experience, and ability in light of Lesnar being such a completely unknown commodity in mma. I don’t get it.

EXACTLY what I was thinking. Lesnar has dominating takedowns (I can’t imagine too many people stuffing them), but anyone can get caught with a well-timed knee, and Herring knows how to time his strikes. However, unless Lesnar does something stupid (decides to stand and trade; l’n’p to standup repeatedly; etc.), Herring’s options get pretty limited after that.

Since you have the answers I’m good to go.

I guess now I don’t have to buy the PPV.