Dim Tuncan
12-30-2010, 08:42 PM
My wife says in one of her letters "Brock Lesnar lost early to Velasquez, sorry. Looked good early, got a takedown, but took some big shots and got a bad cut."
I get this letter during a particularly bad week for my recruit company where we were just getting annihilated 24 hours a day... I mean that was really what boot camp was like the whole time but this particular week was especially bad. I'm a Lesnar fan and while usually sports don't affect my emotions too bad given my circumstances I was a little upset.
So anyway I end up graduating, flying to my new unit, etc. Once I'm settled in I go on MMA-Core and watch the fight.
Let me stop here and issue a full disclosure - I like Lesnar. One because my dad put me in wrestling when I was little and every year we'd watch the NCAA finals on ESPN... And I remember him losing to Stephen Neal (who was one of the clinicians at a summer camp I attended) whereas Lesnar himself went to Minnesota (I ended up being a 2X graduate of the storied J Robinson Intensive camp).
So anyway I always felt like people who only looked at Lesnar's pro wrestling past didn't get it, because collegiate wrestling is a really gritty sport and you don't just go out an win a D1 NCAA championship because you're big.
That said, who HONESTLY didn't think there was something funny up in the Lesnar/Velasquez fight?
First of all, Velasquez landed way more shots on Rothwell/Kogo and did far less damage (though the Big Nog fight indicates that he has some nasty power in his hands). I know this is a MMAth argument but the dichotomy is undeniable IMO... Second... Lesnar's theatrics while getting beaten up by Cain just looked so.... WWE... I guess would be the word.
Combine that with how the UFC marketed the fight (as I stated above at the time I was completely cut off from the outside world save for a weekly letter from my wife but my friends tell me it was all of this hype about "there's never been a Mexican-American UFC Heavyweight champ"), the sheer number of Mexicans available for the UFC to sell PPVs to, the fact that Cain had a much harder time in the past against much softer opponents, and Lesnar's bizarre WWE-esque body physics and I believe it'd reasonable to conclude that
LESNAR TOOK A DIVE.
Flame away.
in b4 tldr
I get this letter during a particularly bad week for my recruit company where we were just getting annihilated 24 hours a day... I mean that was really what boot camp was like the whole time but this particular week was especially bad. I'm a Lesnar fan and while usually sports don't affect my emotions too bad given my circumstances I was a little upset.
So anyway I end up graduating, flying to my new unit, etc. Once I'm settled in I go on MMA-Core and watch the fight.
Let me stop here and issue a full disclosure - I like Lesnar. One because my dad put me in wrestling when I was little and every year we'd watch the NCAA finals on ESPN... And I remember him losing to Stephen Neal (who was one of the clinicians at a summer camp I attended) whereas Lesnar himself went to Minnesota (I ended up being a 2X graduate of the storied J Robinson Intensive camp).
So anyway I always felt like people who only looked at Lesnar's pro wrestling past didn't get it, because collegiate wrestling is a really gritty sport and you don't just go out an win a D1 NCAA championship because you're big.
That said, who HONESTLY didn't think there was something funny up in the Lesnar/Velasquez fight?
First of all, Velasquez landed way more shots on Rothwell/Kogo and did far less damage (though the Big Nog fight indicates that he has some nasty power in his hands). I know this is a MMAth argument but the dichotomy is undeniable IMO... Second... Lesnar's theatrics while getting beaten up by Cain just looked so.... WWE... I guess would be the word.
Combine that with how the UFC marketed the fight (as I stated above at the time I was completely cut off from the outside world save for a weekly letter from my wife but my friends tell me it was all of this hype about "there's never been a Mexican-American UFC Heavyweight champ"), the sheer number of Mexicans available for the UFC to sell PPVs to, the fact that Cain had a much harder time in the past against much softer opponents, and Lesnar's bizarre WWE-esque body physics and I believe it'd reasonable to conclude that
LESNAR TOOK A DIVE.
Flame away.
in b4 tldr