He looked fierce against Rothwell the other night I’ll give him that. But I can’t help but feel that Rothwell was fighting on the level of a TUF10 contestant. He was a major letdown. Coming into the 2nd round he looked gassed and mentally defeated.

“[Lesnar] is an extremely hard fight for us,” Mendez said

Well No shit. Cain’s last two fights have been Won by using his wrestling to overwhelm his opponent. He still doesn’t seem to have enough power to back his onslaught. Yes he can go full speed majority of the time but if he isn’t hurting the other guy and steve mazagatti isn’t the referee then he is fucked. Brock would eat him alive

I was talking to Rome last night about how awesome Cain vs. Lesnar would be in Mexico. Good to hear that is a possibility. I don’t think Cain should get a title shot quite yet, but I do think if he DOES get one that having it in Mexico is the best possible situation.

Cain is a workaholic. He suffocates people and pummels them. This is the 2nd time where he broke his opponents will. I think it was great experience for him now that he has to fight Carwin/Lesnar. He’s dealt with huge guys with big power now.

Yeah he might not have that 1 punch KO power like Carwin but I liked his head movement in this last fight. He needs to keep improving on that especially now. If he can avoid taking a bomb early on then we might see Carwins cardio finally tested. If they go to the second rd where Cains been smacking him around through out the first round like he did to Rothwell its more than likely that we will see the same outcome. A gassed battered and beaten Carwin being saved by the ref. I can at least picture that scenario.

Now with Lesnar, I have no clue what will happen there. I think Cain better pray to the Virgen de Guadalupe that Carwin catches Brock.

Mexico City will be a terrible location, the altitude will kill half of the fighters. Not a good idea at all, especially if they want a fight between two heavyweight wrestlers to be good, if it’s held there just wait for them to gas in around a minute and then we’ll be treated to the worst fight since Thales Leites lost for the title.

Does anyone else find this to be a bizarre comment.

“[Lesnar] is an extremely hard fight for us,” Mendez said. “We’re going to definitely have to win the standup game and the kicking game. And then the wrestling, the size of Brock could potentially neutralize us, but Cain’s cardio is going to neutralize him, so it’s going to be a really, really interesting fight.”
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“Should Carwin get past Lesnar, it’s going to be a little different fight,” Mendez said. “We can’t attack the same as against Lesnar because Carwin is to be respected because of his incredible power, and his wrestling is top notch also. We will have to take a different path because he is a different fighter with different strengths.”

Doesn’t this read as if he’s saying that against Lesnar he’ll plan on trying to “win the standup game and the kicking game” and rely on superior cardio, but against Carwin he’d have to do something different because of Carwin’s “incredible power” and “top notch” wrestling? Maybe not what he intended, but it sounds to me like Cain’s camp is suggesting Cain can stand with Lesnar and not Carwin — and I can’t imagine Cain being able to stand with either of them.

Mexican hometown hero Vs The biggest American they could possibly find.

Sells itself.

With all 999 punches he threw none of them really seem to pack that much of a wallop.

but Rothwell is nowhere near the level of competition of Carwin or Lesnar. Lesnar would more than hold his own against Cain standing & would maul him on the ground. Carwin would likely beat up Cain on the feet & I doubt Cain could take the punishment from Carwin like he did against Kongo.