UFC 100 Results: Brock Lesnar Stops Frank Mir in Two Rounds
by Kid Nate on Jul 12, 2009 12:20 AM EDT
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Brock Lesnar pounded out Frank Mir and flipped off a booing crowd to cap his scary performance.
The most anticipated, most hyped and most watched UFC heavyweight title fight ever saw champion Brock Lesnar walk in to Metallica's "Enter Sandman" to meet a very in shape Frank Mir.
Declining to touch gloves with the man who beat him the first time they fought, Lesnar immediately went for a takedown. A heavily taped left-leg may or may not have hampered Mir early. From half-guard, Lesnar tried to land elbows and punches.
Lesnar scored a headlock that looked like a one-armed half-nelson and landed hard rights to Mir's face. Alternating between holding Mir's wrist and pounding his face, Lesnar was dominant. Single handed rape chokes alternated with hammerfists from his ham-fisted left.
Mir looked like a crime victim going into the second round. Lesnar refused to stay on the ground after scoring an early takedown. Mir scored on the feet with a knee then pulled guard on Lesnar. Up against the cage Lesnar battered Mir out.
A fight to unify the belts in the division brought heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar against interim champ Frank Mir. Both men entered an informal four man mini-tournament last fall and emerged triumphant in the first round. Mir beat reigning interim champ Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira in December to stake his claim. Lesnar KO'd champ Randy Couture, whose dramatic attempt to leave the UFC to face Fedor Emelianenko, the man ranked #1 in the USAT/SBN MMA Rankings, triggered the entire title controversy.
Lesnar, a former NCAA national champion turned WWE champ, brought a 3-1 record and a cloud of controversy with him into the Octagon. Many hardcore fans were angered that he was given a shot in the title tournament with such a thin MMA resume. But business is business and the man who had instantly become the UFC's biggest draw would not be held back from the title hunt.
Mir, recovering from a horrible 2004 motorcycle wreck that snapped his femur, had been seen as a fading force in MMA, going 2-2 since his return before he shocked the world by submitting Brock Lesnar in February of last year. His TKO win over Nogueira came as a shock to even him.
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Brock is now my favorite fighter
I don’t care what anyone says, Brock went in the cage and gave Frank a beating. He’s the new bad guy of MMA. His after fight comments were classic. Hahahaha…great fight.
Brock just tells it like it is. And you have to love him for that.
by FlyByKnight on Jul 12, 2009 12:30 AM EDT up reply actions
BROCK RULES
Thats the way to shut him up…….. AWESOME!
Awesome post fight interview
Dana has his Tito…
by JVelez on Jul 12, 2009 12:48 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
I don't think
Barnett could hang with Lesnar. Now I am longing for Fedor.
bs
i think the fight shoulda been stood up wen lesnar took mir down in da 2nd. i dnt agree with herb dean. lesnar was jus on top 4 a good 10+ seconds.
by ifidie2nite on Jul 12, 2009 1:04 AM EDT via mobile reply actions
Thanks for letting me know what a gift wrap was before this fight Nate =)
A man should never waste an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.
I may disagree with some of your stuff Nate, but you know a whole lot and usually make it easy to read. On that note, what would be the technical term for Brock holding Mir’s head still in the first round.
A man should never waste an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.
Mugging? don’t know for sure, just throwing that out there.
by proflex on Jul 12, 2009 2:28 AM EDT up reply actions 1 recs
How do you figure?
Every time Herb told Brock he needed to work, Brock got to work. He was very active with his punches, even if he didn’t bother to posture up. He wrapped up the neck and blasted Mir’s face, and when Frank protected his face Brock smashed him by going body-body-head. Mir’s face was a mess after that first round, and I imagine his ribs weren’t feeling very good either.
That was just a good old fashioned ass kicking.
Enough with this stand them up crap.
Did you see the damage that he did while he was on the ground? There is no arguing with those results. He may have taken a little time to get there, but look what happened as a result? It would not have mattered if Dean stood them up anyway as Brock would have just taken him down again and repeated.
Arguing on the internet is like being in the special olympics, even when you win you are still retarded.
So a few questions where answered tonight. Can Lesnar take a hit, yes, two in fact, and knees at that. Can Lesnar hang with the “big boys” After a KO of Mir, more than likely. Now lets see him against some other competition, like Carwin, or Valesques (I know I got it wrong, cut me some slack)
"THE NEXT BIG THING" indeed!
Guys, I don’t know if you get the same feeling that I do, but I believe that the next year or so, 4 out of the 5 weight classes have the possibility to be stagnant. With the exception of the Lightweight class; Every other class has a dominant champ that could make a long undefeated run.
1. GSP owns the welterweight division and I don’t see no one beating him. I thought Alves would, and GSP dominated him.
2. Anderson Silva owns the Middleweight divison, and with the exception of Dan Henderson (Who did very well against Silva in the first round) and Damian Maia (Who just might have the BJJ technique to beat him), I don’t see anyone else beating him.
3. Lyoto Machida beat one of the savviest, quickest, and intelligent fighters in Rashad Evans for the Light Heavyweight belt, and he beat him in dominant fashion. I don’t see anyone beating Lyoto right now. Not even Rampage Jackson. He has the power, but Lyoto’s elusiveness is unbelievable. Before you can actually try to hit him, he catches you with like 3 or 4 shots.
4. and after watching UFC 100….No one in the UFC will be able to beat Brock Lesnar. He is too strong, too fast, and he has shown how intelligent he is in the ring. To think that Saturday’s fight was only his 5th pro MMA fight, and that he dominated one of the best BJJ heavyweights in the world…that’s scary. People keep hating on Brock Lesnar, but you have to give it to the man; He trains his butt off, and he has gotten significantly better in each of his fights.
Watching the utter destruction of Frank Mir by the mammoth hands of Brock Lesnar convinced me that Lesnar’s size, and strength, can really put a dent into any other fighters technical strategies. He is just a freak of nature!
These are some fights that I feel must be done:
Lesnar vs. Fedor (To prove who is the undisputed Heavyweight king)
GSP vs. Anderson Silva (To prove who is the pound for pound greatest fighter)
Lyoto Machida vs. Rampage (To prove who the real top dog in the LHW division is)
and last but not least:
Dana White vs. Tom Atencio (To prove that no other promotion can top UFC here in the states) LOL!
BROCK “THE DESTROYER” LESNAR SAYS BRING ON FEDOR!!!
a year ago
you’d have had Urijah Faber on your list. Anything can happen in MMA.
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