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Yep, Randy didn't have a pro bout until he was 33 years old..
In his prime agewise, or the prime of his fight career? In the prime of his youth, his fighting experience was zero.
Yep, Randy didn't have a pro bout until he was 33 years old..
Tough one...
His prime was basically 2 years ago. His career is one of a kind and will likely never see its kind again.
It's insane to say but as far as performances go, the best years of Randy's career were from the ages of 39-44..
Too bad Yoko Couture caused him to sit out. Could have packed in another 2 or 3 fights.I have never cared about Fedor Vs Randy but Randy Vs Nog was something I really wanted to see.
And who amongst the crowd wouldn't have liked to see Randy smash Mir?
he was gased. maybe thats why he was "calm."
I didn't see him overly gassed, only a little after he threw so many hammer fists trying to finish..
If anyone was gassed it was Randy. Lesnar was breathing harder than he did against Herring but I wouldnt say he was gassed.
Randy was slower a bit in the 2nd, looked like trying to get Brock down unsuccesfully the last min of RD 1, took somthing out of him..
Sam Caplan’s weekly column for CBSSports.com is now available. This week, Caplan takes a look at Brock Lesnar’s UFC heavyweight le victory over Randy Couture during last weekend’s UFC 91 event. Since winning the le, Lesnar has come under fire from many loyal MMA fans who feel as though his victory has compromised the purity of the sport.
Caplan’s most notable complaint is that some of the same fans who complained that Kimbo Slice wasn’t facing top level compe ion early in his career are also complaining that it Lesnar is unfairly getting the opportunity to fight top-level compe ion early in his career.
“Many of those same purists who are crucifying Lesnar also crucified Kimbo Slice,” Caplan writes. “They ripped Slice repeatedly for failing to take on top 10 heavyweights while they scream about how Lesnar didn’t deserve to fight a world champion after only three fights. It appears that some of the critics are trying to have it both ways: They don’t want inexperienced, heavily promoted fighters to fight stiffs, yet they complain when they are given legitimate compe ion.”
Another position expressed by Caplan is his feeling that Lesnar is unfairly receiving criticism due to his past as a professional wrestler.
“It would appear Lesnar’s biggest fault is the fact that after graduating college he made a sound business decision to accept a multimillion-dollar offer from Vince McMahon and the WWE,” he began to state.
“For a 22-year-old world-class amateur wrestler, choosing a career path isn’t as easy as it might be for a projected first-round pick in baseball, basketball or football. There is no NFL of amateur wrestling.”
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I like that take on Brocks turn to the WWE and people do need to get over that. He had a 250 grand offer from the WWE right out college, of course he would take that. He said in interviews had there been any money at all in MMA at the time, he would have gone that route immediately but around 1999 that would be, MMA was about as dead as can be.. So what were his choices, get an assistant werstling coaching job somewhere or a reg 9-5 for 30 or 40 grand a year or take the WWE offer? Seems like a no brainer to me..
Everyone that gives him garbage for turning to WWE.......
I would love for them to know how many other current MMA stars have done some sort of wrestling to earn money......
and I would love to see a show of hands of people who would turn down 250 grand
It's great that MMA is such now that these guys with world class college wrestling backgrounds can seriously think about giving it a try. It's tough when you have been competing at such a high level for so long to be just 22 or 23 years old and it's just over and you gotta settle down into a reg 9-5..
So many guys have done pro wrestling, especially in Japan.
Ken Shamrock definitely brought over more WWE fans than Brock.
No that's not true. Brock was a head-lining main event star in the WWE really his whole career there. He was given the le multiple times. Ken was given a decent push in the WWE but nothing like Brock. He wasn't headling Wrestlemanias or anything. Plus when Ken left MMA for WWE and came back, the sport was still very small..
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I saw this fight again (only the fighing). And randy looked like he had no power, like he really lost all his tools.
The most noticeable thing that had impact on he fight IMO was that Randy had too much adrenaline and he was forceing himself to relax. With smiling for example I've been here before I love to fight, it's no different. But his body was not there.
In that fight we saw an old fighter who wanted to prove that he still can do what Capitan America is able to do, but he was unable to.
I thought Randy did fine, Brock is just a big ass mother- er.
What surprised you about the fight that you thought was fine for Randy going in??
Brock is big. Really Big.
Randy was much more skilled. Brock was just so damn big.
One thing Randy said in the post-fight was he couldn't believe how long his reach was. He never found the range he needed to..
So what you didn't know Brock was a mountain of a man going in.. That's it, he was just too damn big, you thought Randy's skill was going to overcome it. Do you give Brock any credit in the skill department?? He sure looks to be developing to me..
I think the UFC fully knew what they were up against and were ready for it. They knew Page could make just as good or even better champ than Liddell.And i also don't think there is much doubt the UFC brought in Rampage expecting Chuck to avenge that loss. You know Chuck wanted that fight bad..
wtf... why did you post that here DB? lol
My bad ed up, i put it in the other thread, LOL sorry..
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