Brock Lesnar Looks Back at UFC 116 Win on ESPN's SportsCenter
by Nick Thomas on Jul 5, 2010 12:55 PM EDT
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PrintUFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar joins SportsCenter to talk about his victory over Shane Carwin at UFC 116.
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It seems like that guy interviewing isn’t that fluent with the common phrases in MMA and what-not, but still managed to have a good interview without saying anything ridiculous. If Brock had some social skills he could probably gain some more attention on these Sportscenter segments… He just seems so uneasy speaking publicly.
BROCKLESNARRRR?? BROCKLESNARRRR!!!!
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I gotta give Brock some ....
…. credit here , he seems to have finally learned how to be humble , showed a ton of heart and was in general not acting like a WWE wrestler . He now is acting like a true champion and from his speaking during the interview he really seems greatful to have an MMA career now .He also seems to respect his fellow fighter more now ( unlike the second Mir fight ) . Maybe that time training with Randy really did help him .
" Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth. " ~
Mike Tyson
I like this Brock wayyyyyyy more than frothing at the mouth, shooting the finger Brock. Good for him!
Mike Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up, they would pound each other behind the barn."
by xFenixKnightx on Jul 5, 2010 1:38 PM EDT up reply actions
As where I prefer him ....
… to act like what he is , a Professional athlete .
" Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth. " ~
Mike Tyson
by MidWayMonster54 on Jul 5, 2010 5:36 PM EDT up reply actions
Yea!
Like Marvin Harrison! Tom Brady! Tiger Woods! Kobe Bryant!
these days “professional” and “athlete” are all too uncommon. Unfortunately.
Barkley was right.
by silent.bisonte33 on Jul 5, 2010 5:42 PM EDT up reply actions
So many opinions about the fight on Sat. I really dont know what to say. I have mixed feelings. On one hand I give MAJOR props to Brock for staying in it and coming back to win, and via Sub which is insane. On the other I felt like he was exposed and Carwin beat himself. Do I feel Brock is “The baddest man on the planet”? I don’t know how you could call someone that after running and cowering/turtling up. Brock’s standup is atrocious. The people who keep saying he’s gonna beat everyone in his path are gonna have a rude awakening. You cant stay champ a long time being one dimensional. If Brocks standup would have looked better Sat night I’d probably be on that bandwagon with everyone. Right now, I cant join you.
Will Brock beat Cain? If he can get the takedown right away, like within the 1st 30secs of the fight, yeah I think so. If Cain stuffs Brocks takedowns its gonna be a long night for him.
So what about Cigano? Uh yeah, I think Brock would lose his belt quick.
Mike Goldberg: "You know Joe, When Matt and his brother Mark Hughes were growing up, they would pound each other behind the barn."
lol cigano man? seriously? a 300 lb wrestler vs. a 240 lb brazillian? it’d be brocks easiest title defense next to mir.
What the hell does JDS being Brazillian have to do with anything?
There is the possibility that size doesn’t automatically guarantee you a win, if that was the case Marius Padzuzu…buff n*gga would be tearing down people’s houses left and right. And even with all of his size, Brock has never really looked like he wasall that dominating of a wrestler.
"Why don’t you stick to talking about the topic instead of stripping Sonnen lines in an attempt to fish for rec’s? I don’t really care who you pick, but I’ll argue your reasoning until my monitor burns out." -Blackout612 to Fake Emcee
As a HS wrestling coach who watched some of his college matches
Brock was a pretty damn good college wrestler.
"Overdrive the sound and make it sound pretty rude." - Jimmy Page
I'm talking MMA centric wrestling though.
and you’re a HS wrestling coach, as if I already didn’t have enough reasons to despise you. ;)
"Why don’t you stick to talking about the topic instead of stripping Sonnen lines in an attempt to fish for rec’s? I don’t really care who you pick, but I’ll argue your reasoning until my monitor burns out." -Blackout612 to Fake Emcee
Well, that and you probably still think I'm a Nazi...
"Overdrive the sound and make it sound pretty rude." - Jimmy Page
He came incredibly close
to being 107-4 and a 2 time National Champion. He was definitely a very good wrestler.
baddest man
I can see how he feels he’s “baddest man on the planet”. He’s the undisputed champion of the heavyweight division in the top caliber mma promotion on the planet. I don’t think any of the other UFC champs would have much of a shot against him as a HW, and I don’t think (given recent events) that any HW outside the promotion would be favored against him. In an absolute sense, he can claim baddest man on the planet.
In a p4p sense, no, I don’t think so, but he didn’t say that. He also didn’t say he’s invincible, but until Cain or JDS take the belt from him, they’re not badder (worse?). :)
mma fans got it bad thinking they can say who knows mma and who doesn’t.
by staytrue_and_b-real on Jul 5, 2010 1:40 PM EDT reply actions
if brock beats cain...
… will he have the longest title reign in ufc heavyweight history? seems like most of the previous champs only defended once or twice at most.
No one has defended it more than twice.
Couture and Sylvia
So Brock is at 2 title defenses right? Or does the interim belt bullshit screw that up?
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by Earl Montclair on Jul 5, 2010 2:07 PM EDT up reply actions
Nope.
If Brock could lose the belt, it was a defense. Brock has 2 title defenses.
Cause there's only one, and that's me
You understand? for all that fighting, you understand
That sucka think he good, that sucka think he can whoop me
And i know he can't whoop me, Ay boy, the n**** whole style is chump
by S.C. Michaelson on Jul 5, 2010 2:19 PM EDT up reply actions
Thanks dude!
Stallar.com take a gander!
by Earl Montclair on Jul 5, 2010 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions
Technically, it’s two title unifications (which is even better), but I digress.
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are in a confederacy against him. - Jonathan Swift
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by Derek Suboticki on Jul 5, 2010 3:42 PM EDT up reply actions
Actually
Technically, you didn’t digress; you clarified, which is better.
"Daydreams of a 'fair' world which would treat him according to his 'real worth' are the refuge of all those plagued by a lack of self-knowledge." -- Ludwig von Mises.
MESSAGE BOARD SYNERGY
Cause there's only one, and that's me
You understand? for all that fighting, you understand
That sucka think he good, that sucka think he can whoop me
And i know he can't whoop me, Ay boy, the n**** whole style is chump
by S.C. Michaelson on Jul 5, 2010 7:19 PM EDT up reply actions
If Brock beats Cain he will have won more top contender fights than Fedor has in his entire career…
by mmalogic on Jul 5, 2010 2:06 PM EDT up reply actions 5 recs
umm inflamed intestine? I would have snapped at that dude if I was Lesnar
Diverticulitis is no fucking Inflamed intestine.
Exposed…. Vulnerable… Yadda, Yadda, Yadda.
Brock took 39 significant shots by the hardest hitting guy at HW and before the round ended he got back to his feet, came out in round two like everything was fine, and then chocked Carwin out. What other human being on earth could do that?
How is a guy who wasnt finished by 39 significant carwin shots exposed or vulnerable? if anything an entire way of beating him (tko) has become improbable by anyone else in the division.
You cant write a story about a guy in just 6 fights and Diverticulitis accomplishing what he has because nobody would believe it.
All these bitches crying are like the republicans who are closet homosexuals that deny gay rights. They are in their little airport stalls jerking off to a Fedor poster.
Brock vs Fedor would have done great business but Brock vs Mir 3 would have done just as much if not more and now you can add Brock vs Carwin 2 to that line up.
Brock can fill his stand up gaps, we just need to know where his cardio limits are and Cain is should answer that question for us.
by mmalogic on Jul 5, 2010 2:27 PM EDT reply actions 4 recs
Get ready for
The “no politics on BE” warning. Then again your on the correct side (the left) and they probably won’t say a word to you like they did to me.
Thank you.
We all know Carwin hits the hardest in the division, so all these “he got exposed” comments are rubbish. Brock got hit hard and panicked a little, that’s it. I can tell you from experience that if you are fighting someone and take their best shot and don’t go out, it gives you a lot more confidence for the rest of the fight. The thing that worries me about Brock Vs Cain is Brock doesn’t like getting kicked. When he first got in the fight game and was training here at Miletich he would get pissed if people kicked him. Cain has quick hard kicks and that could be trouble for the champ if he can’t get the take down. Maybe now that he has been training for awhile he is used to the kicks, we will find out.
Be a man, not a child-Phil Anselmo
by ANance on Jul 5, 2010 2:43 PM EDT via mobile up reply actions
if he can't get the takedown?
or the clinch? or dominate physically in every aspect? a guy that landed the quantity of shots that cain did on rothwell and kongo isn’t about to lay brock out. and if kongo even knew how to sprawl maybe we wouldn’t even be having a conversation with cains’ name in it. even so, we are, and i expect cain to be an easier fight than JDS.
by silent.bisonte33 on Jul 5, 2010 4:08 PM EDT up reply actions
rematch + thoughts
First I think Carwin deserves a rematch, straight up. Coming into this fight his plan was clearly to knock Brock out in the first round. When that didn’t happen and he had exhausted himself, he was utterly lost in the ground game, not even having the energy to get into a full guard. I think with a rematch, Carwin would condition himself and prepare for a longer bout. Regardless though, I still feel like he should have won this fight. Kudos to Brock for hanging in there (barely), but I definitely want to see them go at it again.
honestly
though i am no fan i feel shane has a better chance than either Cain, JDS or Roy. A rematch could be sick when both are more prepared (not to say they weren’t, but Brock had his layoff and Shane’s muscles clearly fatigued) and have each gotten their taste of each other once.
by silent.bisonte33 on Jul 5, 2010 4:26 PM EDT up reply actions
Carwin is the best bet to beat Brock
Clearly, Carwin has the best chance of all the crop of heavies to beat Brock. Like you said, he needs better conditioning and not to fall into the rope-a-dope i.e. he needs to fight smarter. Having said that, by the time his rematch comes around, I expect Brock’s strike defense to be significantly improved, and I think he’ll win much easier.
"Daydreams of a 'fair' world which would treat him according to his 'real worth' are the refuge of all those plagued by a lack of self-knowledge." -- Ludwig von Mises.
I don't get it
It’s not like he lost by close decision. He got subbed in the second. UFC has been doing a lot of rematches lately but they’ve been fights that were close or questionable the first time. BJ had been dominating the LW division and somewhat earned his rematch by being the champ. Shogun Machida 2 was needed. Brock and Carwin will most likely meet again, an immediate rematch isn’t needed here.
by seanerk88 on Jul 6, 2010 2:15 AM EDT via mobile up reply actions
a 250 Carwin
sounds good. but i wonder if that much more of a weight cut would help that cardio? maybe over the course of a couple fights he can slowly drop.
or donate his forearms to science.
by silent.bisonte33 on Jul 5, 2010 4:43 PM EDT reply actions
I don't think Shane is it
Brock was scared to get hit. He’d never been hit and I’m sure they don’t hit him in training. He got hit..a bunch and stood tall. His chin is tested. He won’t be scared next time.
Cause there's only one, and that's me
You understand? for all that fighting, you understand
That sucka think he good, that sucka think he can whoop me
And i know he can't whoop me, Ay boy, the n**** whole style is chump
Lesnar made the case for best HW at the moment
With this submission win over Carwin, there is no doubt that right now he is the best HW in the world. IMO, he won’t be best HW of all time until he beats Cain, JDS (that is if JDS demolishes Roy), and at least another highly skilled contender. Then he can actually start competing against Fedor in terms of historical greatness.
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