Eventually there will be a super heavy weight class as a fight between a 207 fighter and a 265 fighter is the equivalent of shinya aoki vs fedor. If mma devolves to a bigger man smothering a smaller opponent throwing short punches until hes out much of the magic of mma is lost. There was probably resistance from fans when there was only two weight classes which turned to five, im sure there will be more resistance when 5 turns to 6. But the sport evolves to bring us more compelling matches to mma fans.

PS I thought there were athletic commission laws which says u cant outweight your opponent by a certain amount.

The hate that everyone is imagining really just isn’t there. Yes, some newspaper columnists are whining, but most sports fans nowadays don’t read newspapers and think that most columnists are out of touch. These are the sampe people that refuse to accept the fact that OPS and the new baseball stats actually have meaning and can be useful.

This is a small sample size, but I overheard some coworkers talking about “the fights” and asked them what they though of them. None of them are big MMA fans, they all said Brock Lesnar, and especially his post fight interview was awesome.

He may not be the biggest star in the world right now but I really don’t think many people are all that outraged by what happened, and there are definitely more people intrigued/interested than outraged, especially in the young male demographic.

I’m beginning to hate Lesnar for, if nothing else, every other sodding article I read now is about him!

Watching the Lesnar / Mir fight, I was oddly reminded of Rocky iV (as well as during the Henderson / Bisping fight). Remember when Apollo Creed was fighting Ivan Drago and Drago just stalked Creed, absorbing ineffective punches, looking to land that one big shot? Well, now that Brock has been able to control his emotions in the octagon and slow things down, he is just looking to get the inevitable takedown, smother the guy then ground and pound out a victory. If he can just protect himself from a flash knockout by keeping the hands up, chin tucked, and move forward, he’ll get his hands on the other fighter eventually. Even after Mir rocked him, Lesnar took him down, waited until he got his senses back then started slamming him with cinder blocks. Mir wasn’t able to get out from underneath him or do anything from his back when that would have been the ideal time to attempt a sweep. But really could anyone perform a sweep with a close to 300 pound wrestling champion keeping you pinned? With due respect to great stand up fighters like Silva and Machida, there are far more examples of dominant fighters with excellent skills at the ground and pound. It doesn’t matter who you are, Lesnar’s sheer size and power will eventually overwelm you. It will be frightening to see what happens once he learns to start striking with accuracy and starts nailing people right on the chin. Until then I guess we’ll all have to settle for him using those lunch box size fists to meat tenderize the face of anyone he faces. He’ll be champ for a while.

As a former high school wrestler, I can say the guys I wrestled with and around are not the same as the guys at the MMA academy I train at now. The guys I wrestled with were mean dudes that probably all would have done the same thing Lesnar did saturday night.

If you add to that the fact he spent years cutting promos for WWE, he has become himself amplified. Why can’t MMA fans just accept that guys come from different backgrounds?

My high school wrestling coach is very different from my MMA instructors. They teach humility, and respect for your opponent. My wrestling coach taught me to hate my opponent, before, during, and after a match. Lesnar was much likely treated the same way thoughout his wrestling days.

My only problem is that Lesnars size gives him an unfair advantage. People can bring up Sapp and other big guys to try to refute this but what is the reasoning behind weight classes in the first place. I mean BJ penn could probably beat alot of middle weights but that doesnt mean we should allow fighters to be outweighed by 30-40lbs. Why does the logic of “weighing 40 lbs more than your opponent is unfair” start to break down at 207 and above.