Five reasons why Cain Velasquez will defeat Brock Lesnar (or not)
Posted on July 6, 2010, 09:29 AM by Anton GurevichUndisputed UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar has successfully defended his title against possibly the biggest threat in his career so far, Shane “The Engineer” Carwin. Lesnar was dominated by his opponent in the first round, but managed to bounce back and unexpectedly force Carwin to tap out for the perfectly-executed Arm Triangle.
Caught into a positive match-making headache, UFC are forced to bring the Hunter from Minnesota back to the Octagon as soon as possible. Lesnar’s next opponent will be Cain Velasquez, who just like Shane Carwin carries an unbetean record of seven TKO victories and one Decision.
Both Cain Velasquez and Brock Lesnar have their own strengths and weaknesses. Both fighters are a perfect example of a modern Heavyweight MMA fighter, what results in a probably the most intriguing match-up in the history of the UFC’s 265 division:
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1. Speed
Cain Velasquez is by far the fastest Heavyweight in the UFC. Velasquez moves like a tornado inside the Octagon. His opponents have no time to think about their next move, as they already have to defend a takedown attempt. The fights against Ben Rothwell and Cheick Kongo are a perfect example of how fast Cain Velasquez closes the striking gap, and moves in-out of his opponent’s range. The fact that Velasquez weights approximately 245 pounds is a key factor. Speed is his main advantage, and you can’t move that fast weighting 265 pounds.
Why not?
You can’t move that fast weighting 265 pounds, unless your name is Brock Lesnar. Watching Lesnar charging at the knocked down Heath Herring at UFC 87 is a pretty intimidating sight. Lesnar’s speed comes from his incredible explosiveness, and it may be the key to neutralize Cain Velasquez speed advantage.
2. Striking
Cain Velasquez has probably the most underrated striking in the division, even after the impressive knockout victory over Minotauro Nogueira at UFC 110. Velasquez is putting more emphasis on his wrestling, but it doesn’t mean that he cannot strike. In fact, all-but-one of his fights are coming by the way of TKO victory. The way he boxed with Nogueira (who previously dominated Randy Couture in stand up), is a good example of why you don’t want to engage in a fisticuffs with Velasquez.
Why not?
Lesnar’s chin will absorb everything. Shane Carwin’s would knock 99% of Heavyweights clean out. Frank Mir’s knee at UFC 100 would also send most of the Heavyweights directly to the canvas. No one in the UFC Heavyweight division hits hard as Shane Carwin, and Brock Lesnar managed to survive this test.
3. American Kickboxing Academy
Training at the American Kickboxing Academy might be the key factor in Cain Velasquez future victory over Brock Lesnar. Velasquez will have an incredible pool of talent available at his disposal, including some of the top Wrestlers in MMA today. Training alongside Jon Fitch, Josh Koscheck and Daniel Cormier will prepare Cain Velasquez for the Wrestling fight against Brock Lesnar.
Why not?
Maybe A.K.A. will not have to work that hard to find a Wrestler of Brock Lesnar's caliber, but they will work really hard to find a Wrestler in the caliber and the size of Brock Lesnar. Also, Brock Lesnar’s training camp proved himself against the toughest competitors the division has to offer, especially with the coach Greg Nelson by his side.
4. Wrestling
Personally, I don’t believe that Cain Velasquez will be able to take Brock Lesnar down. More than that, I think that taking Brock Lesnar down will probably not be included in his gameplan. Velasquez’ Wrestling credentials will be able to help him defending Lesnar’s takedowns, and keep the fight on the feet. Cain Velasquez is a two-time NCAA Division I All-American, and there’s no better way to use his techniques than cutting Brock Lesnar’s main advantage.
Why not?
Well, Brock Lesnar is a NCAA Division I Champion. But it’s not the titles what will decide the outcome of the fight between the two. Lesnar’s huge size advantage could be the main factor in whether he succeeds taking Cain Velasquez down to the ground. And we all know what happens when Brock Lesnar takes the fight to the ground.
5. Brown Pride
I personally think that mental preparation is the most important aspect of fighting, and right next to Jon Jones and Georges St. Pierre, Cain Velasquez is the most determined fighter in UFC today. His self-criticism is what the greatest Champions are made of. That’s exactly what makes you to constantly improve and push yourself to the new limits during training. You may disagree with it or even hate it, but Cain Velasquez truly believes (and he is) that he represents his own community. That’s what keeps him motivated, and that could well be the main factor in his fight against Brock Lesnar.
Why not?
Brock Lesnar was one step from the grave during his terrible Diverticulitis illness. His incredible determination helped him to return to Mixed Martial Arts and defend his UFC Heavyweight title. Brock Lesnar was in a deep trouble against Shane Carwin, but still managed to re-organize himself between the rounds, capitalizing on his opponent’s poor form. The new Brock Lesnar believes in his team and training parters more than ever. It’s a different type of motivation and mental state than the one Cain Velasquez has, but it still has basically the same effect. Humble, self-driven Brock Lesnar is a dangerous specimen, and it will take a lot of effort to take the UFC Heavyweight title out of his claws.
Recommended article: HeavyMMA's 5 thoughts from UFC 116: Lesnar vs Carwin
Thanks to the users 243re and kronik2010 for rising my attention about the Daniel Cormier and the NCAA error.
Comments
all those reason are good,but that 50 lbs advantage of lesnar will be a very high factor
Training alongside Jon Fitch and Josh Koscheck will prepare Cain Velasquez for the Wrestling fight against Brock Lesnar.
LOL and LOL again, dont need to say more
but i couldn't read it because i kept laughing my ass off because of the picture of brock panicking made me fall off my chair
its only about 35 to 40 lbs over not 50. and the fact that he has to cut water weight means that it will be difficult for his cardio to keep up with someone of cain's cardio
He's not cutting prana. He just said on TV that he's at 270 right now. He probably won't have to cut any weight. With his muscle mass, losing a pound or two of water is absolutely nothing.
YEAH.... your looking at the BIGGEST heavy weight to one of the smaller
heavy weights .......a couple hits by Brock not sure if Cain will stay standing and if brock is on top....just dont see it happening Cain has great skills but Brock is to big .....its like my nephew he is in 8th grade
and is a monster but if i hit him and got on top its over regaurdless of his skills
there ia only 20 pounds not 50
not realy
Cain should fight JDS first.
dont think fitch and josh will help at all, in wresting technique counts but size, well size says everything if brock gets on top of cain it's all over, i mean dont get me wrong i really like cain but men does he looks tiny in front of brock
oh yeah then the winner of Cain/Dos Santos fight Lesnar and then what?
who will fight the winner of that fight! if theres no contenders left?
Cain deserves his title fight! and Dos Santos will beat Nelson , and then wait for the winner!
personally i think Cain wrestling is awesome but im not sure if he can used it against Brock , his heavier and stronger
while on the stand up i can see Cain winning but not by TKO or KO
if Cain can use a gameplan similar to Frankie edgar he can win
as long as Brock dont take him down
and i think that besides from Carwin , Junior Dos Santos is the man that can KO Lesnar , but i dont know if he will be able to keep the fight standing Lesnar's panic when he gets hit and his reaction is take it to the ground! and Dos Santos as good as he is i dont think he has the takedown defense to stop him
but for sure he can finish Lesnar , he hits hard!! and his Cardio will last for the 5 rounds if it has too the question is would hebe able to make it a stand up fight?
ok lesnar wont get knocked out if he took shane carwins 61 punches he wont get down by velasquez punch. Lesnar a better wrestler than him plus add the size and weight.
It doesnt matter to me both of them have the gayest tattoos in MMA
White Pride... where is Melvin Costa?
the most intelligent comment i ever encountered
that wouldnt surprise me actually.
I poke fun at hypocrites, people take it seriously...like I give a sht.
What kinda gay name is that anyways? just curious, since youve been multiposting my wall, like my little sister.
If Cain felt that Lesnar had a unfair advantage with weight he'd put on more weight like Frank did.
Cain already stated in an interview that he will not bulk up and that he feels more comfortable at around 245. I am amongst the few who dont believe in the weight supremacy. Cain can outbox him and defend the take downs and even take brock down when the gorilla gets tired around round 4 and Cain is still fresh.
You have some good points. Not that I am saying Cain will win this fight but more in terms of what he needs to do to beat Brock, as he certainly has the speed and weapons to do so.
What is amusing is how the "magical round" that Lesnar will gas in keeps pushing further back... Its went from he 3 to 4 and will soon be 5, before ppl have no choice but to respect his cardio.
No personal disrespect to you LKD, just an observation.
Nice article AG. Really the bottom line is that it's likely that nobody in MMA can KO Lesnar without a good long series of several perfect power shots landing in perfect places... It may be that is the only one who can take the belt from Lesnar.
If nobody else can hurt him, drop him with a punch, and they can't take him down or stop his take-downs. There's not a lot of options left for them there.
after seeing fedor drop a 400lb guy with 1 punch, i dont think anyone can take a clean fedor shot. he has smaller hands so the psi is greater for energy transfer and less chance of getting parried also, i would fancy him to find brocks chin and drop him.
Hah... Okay buddy... Fedor is the #1 HW, and he has more power than Carwin. Incredible.
I want some of whatever it is that you're on.
didnt say more power, carwin hits with tremendous power, but there's more to just power in a punch. speed and technique and contact also have relevance
Great fedor on a Brock thread!!!!
Who is this 400lbs person?
A fat guy who is slow as shit and mostly fat that has no head movement, wrestling, boxing, and pretty much lacks of all skill, thats the 400 lb person, brock isnt a 400 lb dumbass hes a 285 lb MONSTER, keep fedor off the thread its about Cain and Brock, Fedor lost and it wasnt a contriversal loss so he fell off the top stop putting him in the disscusion.
brock has about as much mma class as zuluzinho. period. zuluzinho was 15 - 0 before he fought fedor. brock is already 5 - 1.
and if someone says only carwin can ko brock, obviously they dont know much mma so i'm educating them. thats what mma sites is for isn't it?
And that's the difference between quality and quantity retard. Fight high quality opponents and you're bound to lose, fight nobodies and you can win forever.
Lol, well apparently not "forever" right....
btw brock said he was seeing stars after mir landed and the got a knee in after, so he was close to being ko'd by mir.
the arguement only carwin caould ko brock is so weak, sorry if i used fedor as an example, but he was a very good one, but he does have a great chin yes, but anyone can get ko'd dont matter how good the chin is.
He was exaggerating. Nobody hits harder than Shane Carwin, Fedor doesn't even come close, and neither does Mir, and neither does Overeem. He took all those shots, many of which would have KO'd any other fighter all by themselves, then he stood up like nothing happened and won the fight. Fedor would have been done moments after the first punch landed.
given carwins inabiltiy to finish smaller guys than fedor has finished, its debatable. you are way too much up the UFC's azz to ever consider talent outside of it unbiased so your opinion has zero merit.
No way Ston3pony,
I don't believe that Shane Carwin hits harder than Overeem. I like Shane Carwin but if so many people are going to hold him so high as the most dangerous KO striker then maybe the guy should be another MMA fighter to enter into the K1 tournament to prove it. I'll be more impressed with Shane's KO power when he knocks out some of the best strikers in the world. So far Alistair Overeem is the only MMA fighter willing to strike with the best strikers in the world. Did you see the way he KOed Ben Edwards in this year's preliminary?
Bit your way to far up Fedors ass, he doesnt want you there get the **** out
It may be that Shane is the only one that is capable of taking the belt. Cain cannot wrestle with Lesnar. He doesn't have the pure wrestling, he doesn't have the power. Cain can't knock Lesnar out, his punches don't compare to Carwin's. Even if Cain did manage to get a combination started, a flurry like Shane did, he wouldn't be able to do anything with it. He doesn't have the power in his punches to make Lesnar bother doing anything but walking straight through them to take Cain down. Lesnar can knock Cain out. It looks like hand-speed and cardio are Cain's advantages, but I'm not sure what good those will do him.
Cain cannot maintain a distance and point Lesnar out over 5 rounds. Lesnar has a lot of reach over Cain, he's got long arms and can charge and can absorb punches while driving through to put his hands on Cain.
It might have to be a toe-hold, or a submission from the bottom.
Training with Daniel Cormier and other top wrestlers at AKA will help Cains wrestling game more so than Fitch and Kos ,with all due respect.
Totaly agree.. I will add that to an article.
I don't care who you are, Lesnar, Nogueria, anyone...If an MMA heavyweight striker hits you on the switch, you are going out. Remember that Big Nog had the same reputation until he met Cain.
but nog had previously been ko'd by mir (and knocked down several times before that)...nobody hits like carwin in mma and he was hitting brock for a whole round....i dont think lesnar will ever face punishment like that again in his career and the fact that he weathered the storm bodes well for him
The Pride mega-fighters are mostly myth, the reputations are bogus. It's all legend and delusion, perpetuated by those who still obsess about a long dead MMA organization.
Watch Cain's fight with Rothwell. Cain was smashing defenseless Rothwell directly in the face, at will, and they were hardly bothering Ben. They were doing so little damage to him, that he opted to use his free hand to stand up, instead of using it to block. He just let the punches land while he stood up. If Shane did that instead of Cain, he would have died.
that is why currently 2 ufc champions also fought in pride. and an ex pride champ has beat 4 ex ufc champs. legend and delusion? i would say that is what DW is trying to do to modern mma. dismiss a large chunk of mma history, (with which ufc wouldn't exist right now btw), and have everyone believe his guys are so much better.
well said azzkika. the people who say pride fighters are myth and the reputations are bogus only say that cos they were not into mma when pride was still active and no nothing about it.
Yes, there a couple exceptions, I'm sorry that you're too stupid to realize that there a lot of Pride fighters, almost none of which were capable of transitioning. The rest went to joke organizations like Strikeforce, where they fight washed up UFC rejects. Congrats for nothing special.
treu true. i seen alot more class in pride hw title fights than the one witnessed last weekend. DW has so many gullible fans buying into his BS hype machine. some of the posts around this place prove that.
the ufc has always had notoriously weak hw division, without much depth. in recent times though its other divisions have been second to none.
because of that people are deluded into regarding the hw division in a similar light. it certainly has more depth now, but in terms of overall quality it still majorly way short compared with the rest. the best 2 fought last week and both had major major holes in their game. in any other division with them holes they would most likely have been destroyed by better quality and since dropped from the promotion.
now consider this the next time dw tells you great his hw's are. i'm not saying that none of them can't go on and become great, only none of them have yet earned that credit, especially after the level of mma provided by both carwin and brock.
Huh why is everyone talking like weight is such a big part in it. In college Cain was a heavyweight and the heavyweight class goes from 198-285lbs. and somehow Cain managed to become an all-american.
yes but only twice while brock was a 4 time all american 1 time div1 champ runner up and 1 time champ. i would say that those 40 pounds might have something to do with the diffrences in those numbers.
I believe Carwin was hitting Brock on the switch... and did he get KOed?
i would say fedor getting slammed by randleman onto the back of his head and not going under is as good as survivng a mir knee or a carwin punch. he also has had his chin tested a few times and barely flinches
Kazuyuki Fujita rocked fedor with a good right hook.
When was this? Only solid shot that's ever really landed was by fujita. Is fujita a KO artist? Stop making things up retard.
Randleman ****ed him up with that suplex i give him that, but Yall forgetting Rogers rocking him multiple times in their fight...
when was what? the slam? youtube it. watch colemans ground and pound on fedor he gets smashed a few times then flicks a switch and armbars him in a second, didn't curl up and pray ref wouldnt stop it and that coleman would gas out, he finished in the middle of getting punished.
Oh shutup, if you know anything about KO's at all then a suplex isn't the same thing as a hook or uppercut. Lol@ you hyping up coleman and then trying to discredit current ufc heavyweights who are 100 times better than coleman ever was.
Coleman couldn't even hit randy couture in his last fight...is randy couture hard to hit? Just stop postting
rampage used to ko guys with slams onto their heads. randleman probably bigger than ramps and fedor survived the slam. and judging someone by their last fight is retarded, chuck lidell is a legend, but if you judged him on his last fight he got beat by a guy with a broken arm.
With jabs....
I don't think you should jump to conclusions that if Shane Carwin could not knock Brock Lesnar out, it means that Cain wouldn't either. Cain Velasquez is definitely a more technical striker than Carwin which will help him land more strikes than Carwin did. He also has kicks which would give Brock something new to worry about. Raw power like Carwin's is not the only thing you need to knock out someone standing, you don't need the size and power of a Shane Carwin to knock out Brock Lesnar, if you are technical and you have enough power which Velasquez has, i think it would be enough to rock any man, one example, Anderson Silva.
And also, about the ground aspect, I think Cain would be a more dangerous man on top of Brock than Shane Carwin was during UFC 116. That's because all Carwin did was ground and pound then he eventually punched himself out. Cain will never make the same mistake and he will take his time, be intellegent, and control Lesnar from the top, land punches and maybe even go for submissions. Cain obviously has good conditioning too and he can stay in the same pace for a full five rounds. It's a very intriguing fight can't wait.
Yea thats true, for all we know a handful of Shane's strikes could have been a fraction of an inch away from a spot that would have put brock to sleep. He obviously has a good chin, but any man can be knocked unconscious in the heavyweight division with 4 oz gloves.
regarding cain - lesnar if brock can tighten up his stand up and have patience with the td, it will be tough for cain. if he fights like he did against carwin, don't expect cain to gas. brock will have to work for it this time.
Cains advanatages are speed, striking, conditioning and i would even say wrestling from a technique standpoint. He could move in and out with strikes all fight or until brock gets tired or he could secure a takedown for himself. I don't know why but i just cant picture in my head cain valasquez losing a fight, i think he wil surprise people and beat brock at his own game.
LESNAR WILL DOMINATE CAIN AND JUNIOR DOS ANTOS AND EVERYONE ELSE HE EVER FIGHTS HE MAY LOSE 1 MORE SOMETIME TO SUBMISSION BUT HE'LL PROBABLY COME RIGHT BACK AND HURT THE GUY
if carwin had just a fraction better cardio or better composure e1 would be saying carwin not getting beat, 13 -0 all in round 1. as it was he came up a fraction short, only a fraction though. dont be so quick to jump on the bandwagon.
brock could improve to become an outstanding hw and dominate the division, but i feel some of the holes he showed are actually quite hard to train for, and will takes a big effort on his part to rectify. but it's possible. but remember carwins holes are probably alot easier to fix imo, so i expect him to finish it next time if they ever get a rematch.
I can't believed the congo fight was used as an example. Cain seemed terrified of being hit in that fight, and when he did get hit it's like he dropped and managed to take congo down who has 0 ground game(he couldn't even get cain in guard for christ sakes)
Cain is totally overrated, the only reason he's being mentioned is because people like to hate on brock and even the article tries to hide it's bias. Knocking out noguira at this point is almost as impressive as knocking out lidell or wanderlei it seems.
Lets not forget that fighters do make improvements from fight to fight and when they are young in their careers and in their age those improvements are generally quite rapid. You could be biased in Brocks favor for all we know, you weren;t impressed that he completely out striked noguera and finished him that fast? Even mir who dominated him took multiple shots and more than a round to put him away. Give the guy some credit.
lol...I can't believed the congo fight was used as an example. Cain seemed terrified of being hit in that fight...
Did you see Brock face when it was hit by Carwin...What is the difference..Are you blind or just hating on Cain only...
lol..the only reason he's being mentioned is because people like to hate on brock and even the article tries to hide it's bias.
That's exactly what your doing to Cain idiot.
The way Cain took that shot from Congo is being downplayed> That was a hella hard punch. He weathered it just like brock, so don't be hatin.
ANYBODY CAN BE KNOCKED OUT!!!!!!!
whether cain is overrated or not remains to be seen. what is proven though is brock right now is the most overrated guy in the history of mma.
This imbecile just asked what the difference between getting hit by Kongo is compared to getting hit by carwin.....
Sounds like someone already has brain damage
Whoa were you impressed when mir did that to noguiera? Omg were you impressed when shogun took out chuck? What's impressive about that really? Plenty if you want to hype your fighter up i guess.
Oh yea i was sewww impressed when that 48 year old retired boxer KO'd silvia too, sooo impressed.
I'm impressed when i see something i don't expect to. Cain who wasn't known for his striking and showed weaknesses against kongo, stood there and outboxed noguera and finished him quickly, not even thinking about a takedown. I was impressed when Brock lesnar survived the onslaught of shane carwin, but im not impressed when i see brock who we all know ha superior strength get on top of someone and control the fight.
I shoulnd't be saying "im not impressed" because im impressed with every top ufc fighters skills, but some things just stand out more than others.
People didn't expect that because they knew that nog had the best chin in MMA, now it's questionable because he's getting knocked out by guys who aren't known to hit that hard.
I think i saw that cain hit kongo in the head 251 times and he looked fine afterwards, mir just knock kongo out and i can't use the same reasoning there, yet Mir isn't going to knock brock out
i already said brock admitted he was seeing stars after mir hit him.
you welcome to opinion, but the facts don't really support it.
seriously doubt that Cain Valasquez can beat Lesnar by the time he gets back in the octagon his stand up will improve n he will have the power to KO Cain....Lesnar take it to the ground he could ground pound or submitted never know with Lesnar by next year he be well rounded n he still might b HW champ to boot
The size factor will play a part here. We all know that Brock isnt a very good technical striker, he is powerful and explosive yes, but his stand up is prob one of the weakest parts of his game, we saw that against shane carwin, i think the only way for cain to win is if can survive for about 3 or 4 rounds and then capitalize. When Brock fought Randy he got tired around the 3rd round or somethin like that. As much of a freak of an athlete Brock is, i dont think his cardio can support is sheer size for 5 rounds. Maybe a TKO for cain cuz i dont think he can knock brock out, or even maybe a sub mission from his back, Its either gonna be for Brock early or Cain later in the fight, the longer the fight goes it'll lean towards cain, cains wrestling might help him survive but i dont think he can out wrestle Brock just because of brocks size, cain should use his speed and cardio to keep the fight standing as much as possible and drag it into the later rounds, still gonna be an awesome fight
I can't believe that most people aren't giving Cain a shot. The guys fights with the most determination in the HW division. He looks the most hungry. After Brock's fight, I thought it pointed out more holes in his game then it showed growth. Now it seems that most people are thinking his game is flawless?????? The Brock fans are getting as bad as the irrational Fedor fans. I can understand if you like Brock but if you go on every thread and talk about how great he is and you wont bring up any negatives in the man's fight game, you are starting to sound very irrational and bias. Cain definitely has a shot. I would say 50 50 like the Shane match. Shane had it if he was smarter in the 1st. Brock didn't do anything spectacular but weather the storm. That's where most of his credit should go.
IM A BRO. and i am goin to pull for him when he fights cain but that dont mean im positive that hes gunna come out with the win. Brock is inexpereinced and timid in some fights with his standup and that will be the achilies heal in the fight with cain. Both are very good wrestlers so that is mostly dead even besides the 40+ lbs that brock has on cain but that dosnt count for shit if u kno what ur doin. Brock can win if he sees what he did wrong in the carwin fight but if not i see it either being a hard grueling win for brock or an easy win for cain.
@SHAKEZULA
You are one of the few. Just read some threads the last couple of days. Its crazy. Brockmania has officially begun. I definitely give Brock props for winning that fight. Shane had every chance to take the fight and he didn't. The interviews lately with Brock have actually started to like him a little more but to seriously talk about how he is unbeatable is nonsense. Cain definitely has a shot and he will prove a lot of people wrong in their fight.
I think Lesnar will make Brown Pride take a knap.
would you root for me if I had white pride across my chest?
Oh thats right, only white people can be racist huh? smoke my pole meatlips
Shane landed a lot of punches but not affected , most of them either way blocked or missed just like in the pic. I see Cain bigger than Randy so size not a huge advantage with ability to throwing punches more effectively and his incredible speed and wrestling will help him is a factor.imo
I def. think Cain can beat Lesnar... decisively too
Cain Next UFC Heavyweight Champion....
I think conditioning will be the "IT" factor in this fight. It's 5 rounds, if Cain can survive 2 rounds, it's his fight to lose.
Cain is not a 2 time Div 1 champ.. He is a 2 time Div 1 All-American. big difference..And Brock was the D-1 champ once, in 2000.. If you r gonna post something like this, get the facts straight before you do.. Wont really matter anyway, I cant see Cain taking Brock down, and his only chance is to tire Brock out..
Thanks for rising my attention. I'll make sure to double-check myself next time :)
lesnar is 2 time world nnca champ cain is not.
Nelson will get JDS to the ground & finish him, no doubt. I like Cain, but he will lose. It will be Nelson vs Brock. Believe it.
love cain, but lesnars going to get this one. He's way to big, and although velasquez is probly the best current striker in the hw division other than JDS possibly, he doesnt have the necessary power to break brocks granite chin that carwin had. Carwin had the best chance and put himself in the best possible position and couldnt finish it, so a guy half his size isnt going to. Plain and simple, I could see however a Frankie edgar like win if he can use his speed to stay up but if anytime in the fight he gets caught in the arms of the beast he's fuuuuuuuuuucked
Obviously Shane Carwin's "poor form" did not help him in the second round, but how is that Brock's problem? Who is to say that Brock would not have won that fight anyway? We will never know and that is not the fault of the Champ.... Its the fault of an unprepared challenger, which is why Lesnar walked away still the undisputed heavyweight champion, and rightly so...
Yeah, Shane's poor form didn't prevent him from crushing his other opponents.
Man...if i hadn't actually seen cain fight i'd really have fallen for this hype.
Underrated striking? Are you kidding me? Everyone knows he has a good striking! Even other fighters has said it!
Damn everyone look at the picture with CAIN and NOGERA, Holy **** look how deformed Nogeras nipple and chest look after that punch! LOL
ive gained respect for Lesnar after the carwin fight. idk why all his haters use it agianst him, comming back like that is amazing. especially after running away
He only came back because Carwin had totally gassed. It wasn't likehe fought his way back, rather his opponent stopped fighting. Anyone can come back when your opponent cant throw a punch no more.
Why aren't you smart enough to know that wasn't Gassing? Not just anyone could survive long enough to see that conclusion. The fedoretards always talk about how awesome his comebacks are, but they are much less impressive because his competition sucked in comparison.
Randleman,coleman,fujita, arlovski, silvia would ALL get tossed around the UFC as free wins by these people; stop hating.
Cain New Champion tomorrow night...Nuff said.
Cain by round 4 tko
Paul Bunyan will defeat Brown Pride....sorry.I know this because....
of the CHEZKAKE MAFIA!!!!
Footwork, most underated aspect in MMA, should play a factor, especially because of how much better Cains is. I'm also leaning towards Kampman cause of the footwork too, Shields hasn't fought a guy with that type of footwork even though hes fought good strikers.
and this is also why i think gsp will own koschek because his transition from striking to wrestling is way smother. Kos uses pure strength and athletism to get his takedowns and technique of course.