You set the bar pretty high last time so I think my expectations are reasonable.I'll do my best...
Doubt if I'll be able to sneak into a press conference and hang out with the fighters, but I'll see what I can do...
I want to see a picture of you at the after party, doing a bodyshot off of Sable's boobs while Brock cheers you on.
Leonard if you run into Brock, for the sake of your health, don't mention the Penis Tattoo..
...or that WWE is fake...
Pro's picks for Brock and Mir plus some other articles off Sherdog..
http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles...r-vs-mir-18391
http://www.sherdog.com/news/news/bis...underdog-18392
http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles...-ufc-100-18401
Actually you probably get hurt worse doing that than being a pro fighter. Most of the guys that did it for like 20 years and were stars can barely walk now..
Exactly. Don't tell him it's fake Leonard.
LMAO...the chances of doing bodyshots off Sable are .0001% but I'll do my best...
Track down Arianny. she's way hotter...LMAO...the chances of doing bodyshots off Sable are .0001% but I'll do my best...
.0000000000000000000000001% chance
http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news;_yl...yhoo&type=lgns
Lesnar, Mir share barbs, family pics
LAS VEGAS – Brock Lesnar was arriving for his scheduled media session to promote UFC 100. Frank Mir was just leaving his completed one.
That’s when the two ran into each other, just down the hall from where workers were assembling an eight-sided cage where they can beat each other’s brains and bend each other’s bones Saturday here at the Mandalay Bay Events Center.
Lesnar and Mir had spent the past few months taking shots at each other, each claiming he was the legitimate heavyweight champion and boasting about future domination.
Lesnar called Mir “a glorified Karate Kid.”
Mir mocked Lesnar’s Brazilian jiu-jitsu skills.
Lesnar, in a e TV interview, got so tired of watching a replay of Mir submitting him in their February 2008 fight, he stormed out and punched a door so hard it busted off its hinges.
Meanwhile, Mir moved on and decided to mock Lesnar’s coaches for not teaching the big guy basic defense.
“Yeah, I enjoy poking at the bear,” Mir laughed. “Keep poking at the bear.
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“Maybe your opponent has a weak mind so maybe his coaches are keeping him away from you,” Mir continued, as subtle as a falling safe. “So maybe you screw with the coaches, maybe you say bad things about them, like they don’t know how to teach martial arts. Then they’re upset.”
Oh, Lesnar has screwed with Mir and Mir has screwed right back. It’s made for great sound bites, great television and mostly great hype leading up to this much-anticipated rematch.
There was Lesnar on e TV this week, claiming Mir benefitted in their first fight from a decision by referee Steve Mazzagatti. He half-jokingly accused them of sharing a hot tub together.
“I think [Mazzagatti’s] a cool guy, but I haven’t been in any hot tubs with him,” Mir laughed. He then noted that before the last fight, Mazzagatti had specifically warned against strikes to the head, which Lesnar was penalized for. So maybe Lesnar should’ve listened.
Undeterred, Lesnar claimed Mir grew up a nerd.
“That was a funny one,” Mir acknowledged. “I liked that one.”
“He had some good stuff,” Lesnar admitted. “I think mine were better.”
One of the reasons UFC president Dana White took a chance on Lesnar, a former champion in the scripted World Wrestling Entertainment, was that he could also bring a little bit of showmanship to the table.
Lesnar, 31, could sell a fight – in this case, the main event of a milestone card that is expected to produce a mixed martial arts record of more than 1.3 million pay-per-view buys.
“I worked for the circus,” Lesnar said of the WWE. “For me, [the back-and-forth insults] is a chance for me to let some personality out because I don’t do it a lot. I’m a private guy, but if I want to add a little salt and pepper on every once in awhile, that’s fine with me.”
The insults are not just showmanship, though. Lesnar is an undeniably intimidating dude, with little patience for anything.
Part of his mystique comes from his physique – a 6-foot-3, 265-pound mountain of a body. “I don’t exactly blend in with the crowd,” he joked.
The guy’s hands are so big, the UFC had to make him custom, triple XL-sized gloves. His shoulders look like they were cut from the trunk of a huge oak. His head is big and thick and sits sturdy on top of an oversized neck.
He lives deep in the Minnesota woods, where he lifts weights, drives around on tractors and emerges every so often to “get in a fight.” He abhors materialism and strives for simplicity. If it weren’t for hunting shows, he says he’d throw the family television out. If not a UFC star, he says he’d be a farmer.
He isn’t particularly jovial. On Wednesday, he was surrounded by lawyers and agents that take themselves way too seriously. He got shuffled about in a self-important manner that runs counter to the down-to-earth style of every other star in mixed martial arts. Everything around him seemed stressed.
Then to top it off, he’s liable to flash anger at any moment. He boasts that he has no respect for any opponent.
“I didn’t have any respect for Randy [Couture], I didn’t have any respect for Heath [Herring], I don’t have any respect for Frank,” he said. “There’s going to be a winner, there’s going to be a loser. As soon as you step in and have any respect for your opponent, I think you become the loser a of a lot sooner.”
No one knows what he’s going to do or if he can be contained. He’s the ultimate leading man for the UFC, with natural charisma to go along with his on-the-edge demeanor. Fans love him or hate him. They never ignore him. He knows that’s his role.
“There’s a lot of entertainment value to this stuff,” Lesnar said.
And that’s the complex side of him. He was in a pretty good mood Wednesday. He talked about how he’s “happy with my life.” He repeatedly spoke about his commitment to being a good husband and father.
He even laughed about the door he smashed off its hinges in his gym.
“You know, I just got done working out, I didn’t want to be there, I wanted to go home [and] eat,” he smiled. “I’m a sore loser. I don’t like to lose. To watch it over and over again was frustrating. I wanted the interview to be done. So I exited the building.”
He shrugged.
“It was just in the way and I was going through.”
He might as well laugh about it, because Mir already was. Perhaps Lesnar didn’t intimidate Couture or Hearing either, but he certainly won’t scare Mir. If part of Lesnar’s success comes from the psyche-out, he’ll have to win this one shorthanded.
Mir has reveled in giving it back to Lesnar, trying to turn the tables. And why not? He already survived two massive punches in the first fight, and while Mir certainly fell down, he notes that he was never so rattled that he stopped attempting submissions. Eventually he caught Lesnar in a knee bar. MMA is about mental strength, and that, he laughs, makes this a no contest.
Perhaps. Or perhaps he just hopes that idea gets inside Lesnar’s head.
If so, the first stare down of this contest was taking place at an unscheduled time and an unexpected place. The UFC had staggered the fighters’ interviews an hour apart to avoid just this type of meeting. There were no cameras around. Few people. This was real. The trash talk had been incessant and personal. You poke the bear and maybe the bear pokes back.
“Hey, Brock,” Mir said, extending a hand.
“Hey, Frank,” Lesnar said, shaking it.
They stopped, smiled and exchanged pleasantries. Mir’s wife, Jen, asked about Lesnar’s new baby boy. Lesnar returned the favor by asking about the Mirs’ 4-week old son. Jen produced a picture of the kids.
And just like that, so much for the animosity. The unsuspecting gym door was long forgotten. They’ll save the heat for the octagon on Saturday night.
Poke the Teddy Bear?
“That’s nice,” Lesnar said, looking gently at the Mir family picture he held in the huge hand that he plans on punching the patriarch of the clan with on Saturday. “That’s really nice.”
Can't wait for Saturday night...
haha caught the e special on UFC 100, it looked like mir and lesnar were watching the other talk smack cause they had a bunch of comebacks for what each other said.
ESPN.com put a fad that peaked in 2006 on their front page!!! WTF!!!
cover of foxsports.com too
CaptMike doesn't come around here anymore...sad really...
CaptMike doesn't come around here anymore...sad really...
I will be watching but wont be able to discuss the fights for a couple days!
he still must be butt hurt from the college sports forumCaptMike doesn't come around here anymore...sad really...
people who train on the UG say that elbow is no big deal.
So I guess we don't get vbookie
LOL sherdog has a huge Barnett vs Fedor bg on the eve of the biggest UFC event ever.
weigh in play by play:
Would 5,000 people show up to watch Peyton Manning stare really, really hard at an opposing quarterback the day before a game?
There is no other major sport that attracts a crowd of thousands, television cameras, and media in order to witness some heavy tension, but here’s the exception: the UFC and their weigh-ins, which have by now become as accepted a ritual at events as getting drunk and nearly throwing up on Mandy Moore.
7:01 p.m. ET: Announcer Joe Rogan busts out the f-word, just to stick it to those mainstream cameras. Shannon Gugerty is first to take the stage. 156 lbs. Matt Grice clocks in at 155.
7:03 p.m. ET: Tom Lawlor instantly endears himself to hardcores by paying homage to the “Just Bleed” drunkard from the early days. I was too mesmerized to even catch his weight. Opponent CB Dollaway is 186.
7:06 p.m. ET: Lawlor’s is a tough act to follow. T.J. Grant is 170. Dong Hyun Kim is 171.
7:07 p.m. ET: Jake O'Brien appears to be hit from a shrink ray from his heavyweight days: 206 lbs. Jon Jones gets a big reaction. 206.
7:09 p.m. ET: Jim Miller is a lean 155, Mac Danzig a dehydrated 154.
7:11 p.m. ET: Stephan Bonnar keeps his composure as he undresses to face Mark Coleman. He pulls out his cell phone to say hi to his mom in a bit that falls somewhat flat. 206 lbs. Mark Coleman steps to the scale, visibly winded. He looks up at the clock. 205 lbs.
7:12 p.m. ET: Thiago pushes over Coleman’s limp body on the scale in order to step on. 170. Jon Fitch is a sinewy 170.
7:14 p.m. ET: Alan Belcher has a tattoo of either Elvis or Chuck Zito on his left arm [ed: it's Johnny Cash]. 186 lbs. Yoshihiro “Sexyama” Akiyama is a very tanned 185 lbs.
7:16 p.m. ET: Bisping comes out to crowd love worthy of Madoff. He’s clearly enjoying the repulsion. 185 lbs. Dan Henderson gets a much better reception, pandering to the crowd with a US flag t-shirt. 185 lbs.
7:18 p.m. ET: Thiago Alves comes out to a mixed reaction. 170 on the button. Georges St. Pierre is sporting an elbow goiter. If that thing pops mid-fight, good luck to the front row. 170.
7:22 p.m. ET: Brock Lesnar and Frank Mir are queued up. If Lesnar doesn’t make 265, he might double-leg the scale; Rogan announces that a 92 lb. allowance will be made for Mir’s ego.
Mir is in tremendous shape. 245, lighter than he’s been since -- ever? Lesnar gets a smattering of boos. He tosses his t-shirt into the crowd. 265. Some pec jiggling for the ladies.
Mir looked really cut at weigh ins. Lesnar looked extra-heavy. Alves looked pretty big next to GSP.
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