Quick Quote: Valasquez is ready for 5 rounds with Lesnar
Posted on July 17, 2010, 04:28 PM by Daniel CassidyDespite finishing all but one of his fights via knockout, current number one contender Cain Valasquez has declared himself ready for a five round war with current Champ Brock Lesnar. Currently 8-0 in his MMA career, Valasquez was last seen dismantling Minitauro Nogueira back at UFC 110 in Febuary. Prior to this, he has defeated Cheick Kongo and Big Ben Rothwell.
Unlike Lesnar's last opponent, Shane Carwin, who gassed after the first round after just a round with the Champ, Cain Valasquez promises he will be different, when he meets Lesnar:
“I think it showed what kind of a champion Brock really is, I feel he’s proved a lot. The way he came back, what it shows is that the next time, the referee isn’t going to be quick to stop the fight.”
“I can’t just stand there in front of him with no movement and let him explode for a double [-leg takedown].The wrestling is going to be a big part of it/ He’s primarily a wrestler and I come from a wrestling background. But the fight will come down to everything. I expect there will be boxing, jiu-jitsu, kickboxing and wrestling. You have to do the time (five rounds) in the gym. I’m going to be doing five rounds every time I spar.”
“In college, I felt the guys were as strong as I was for the first half of the first round. But by the second round, there was a difference, and by the third round I felt a lot stronger. I’m going to have to follow the game plan to perfection.”
Valasquez is tenatively schedueled to meet Brock Lesnar at UFC 121, on October 23, 2010 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California, United States. TUF 11 winner is expected to face Ryan Jensen at this event.
HT: Dave Meltzer at Yahoo! Sports
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going to be a great fight.
cain makes a better champion, hope he destroys lestard
cain by tko rd 2
Did it happen? Nope... so I don't see Cain doing anything like Carwin did.
cain doesn't have to do anything like carwin. if cain can keep his distance i think he might be able to evade and tag brock with punches in bunches nick diaz style. even if punches don't ko you they still effect your game. if cain evades lesnar and tags him a good bit, he could take advantage of the kind of physical mistakes that kind of striking causes in the oppnets game. i see cain kicking the lead leg on the exit alot in this fight.
other than the chance of cain keeping his distance and landing fast strikes, lesnar has him at every other area. i don't see cain being able to take lesnar down and i don't think cains bjj is good enough to deal with lesnars wrestling. i mean brock is big enough just to force another arm triangle or maybe he will throw a americana out.
gonna be good
Of course it didnt happen dipsht, or Cain would be fighting Carwin.
It will but the only problem with the Nick Diaz punches n' bunches style against a good wrestler is I think Lesnar could just walk right through them on his shot and if he's willing to take a few punches it makes keeping the distance pretty much impossible and then the difference in the fight will be if Valasquez can stop the take down
Cain can go 10 rounds if he wants too!
he has the best cardio in the heavyweight division!!
but the question is how can he beat Lesnar?
the size will be a factor on the wrestling !
he could beat him on the stand up , but Lesnar is afraid to be hit so after the first punches flow he will take Cain down!
and im not sure how good is Cain in Submissions, but i know that if cain can stop his takedowns Cain will win for sure!!
i take issue with anybody who says cain will ko lesnar...seriously, NOBODY hits harder than shane carwin and he was hittin lesnar with everything he had...ppl may say carwin was an idiot for punching himself out, but most ppl die when carwin hits them once, let alone for 5 minutes!!
cains good, but lesnar will win
Cain's just another contender Nutthugger fans are clinging to to beat Brock. They still don't respect Brock.
Carwin should have let Brock back up so he couldnt cover from 3/4 of his punches,,,then pick his ass apart 1 clean shot at a time.
carwin may have more power than others but he rushed and didnt pick his shots an accurate shot at a tenth the power is worth any that are parried on the arms.
if the challanger doesn't have a chance of winning isn't it just a bum for the champ to roll over? brocks not beyond failure, but you can give him respect but still point out the flaws in his game. to pretend they don't exist is the real "nutthugger"ing going down.
Cains just another guy the nuthuggers are clinging to????
Who are they nuthugging? You mean Cain's fans? You make it sound like a group of guys who dont care who they nuthug as long as its against Brock?
I think thats Anti nuthugging fans for Brock.
Also your saying if someone roots for someone besides Brock, they dont respect him? Respecting a guy has NOTHING to do with who you would like to see win.
Yes I think Brocks a c**k sucker, I dont respect him, IMO hes a disrespectful azzwipe I wouldnt waste my spit on.
Ide be happy to see anyone there besides him.
He has flaws... I know that, but his flaws tapped out Carwin. He has the Heart to overcome adversity and beat anyone he faces. I just don't see Cain being a serious threat. JDS on the other hand yeah.
Speaking of Nuthuggers....they're all yours big guy.
I bet you were on Carwins nutts win he fought Brock now that he lost you jumped back on Cains.
I already said I root for anyone who has a chance to beat Brock, your the one infatuated with nuts here...Im not sure what you jump on
and i guess you on brocks cos he won.
Its hard for me to see Cain beating Lesnar. He showed so much in his last fight that it would be hard for anyone to beat him. But I hope Cain pulls it off and it looks like he knows how to aswell.
Honestly if Carwin couldnt KO Brock then can Velasquez? Everytime I go against both of these guys they both manage to win...I dont see Velasquez stopping Brock unless he sneaks a good shot in but I dont see him out wrestling Brock...it's going to be a good fight and I cant wait to see it
Cain is faster on his feet and with his strikes. I think he could get a TKO over Lesnar via Diaz style; punches in bunches, and eventually Brock will fold.
I don't see cain winning this unless lesnar gases... He is going to have to stick and move like a mofo! I can see this fight ending up something like penn vs edgar if those 2 things happen.
Like he said in the last paragraph. Cain will stay strong and more than likely Lesnar will gas. He won't knock him out in the 1st but if he makes it to round 3 or 4 Cain has a chance. That chin doesn't hold up so well when you're tired. I'm still 50 50 on this fight.
either Cain surprises us all and puts on a clinic or he dies away under brocks 265 plus pound frame.
good luck with that loooooooooooool
I don't know man, Randy seemed to have that same idea, that if he hit Brock enough from the outside it'd wear him down, but instead it made Brock mad.
Randy tried to dirty box, control him and squeek out a decision.
Randy is not a striker, hes a wrestler with GnP abilities and an occasional rear naked choke, thats about it.
Randy is the dirty-box master though. And, his boxing is good, he boxed in the Army. It was a good strategy to try make Lesnar wear himself out. That didn't work, so Carwin tried to dump everything in to an unsurvivable first round flurry. That didn't work.
Randy is not that great of a boxer, believe me, he is good but not top notch what made Randy so good it was his skills to combine wrestling and boxing (dirty boxing) but in a stand up war he is not all that.
Carwin has incredible power and has great boxing skills but Lesnar not only prove to have a great chin he did a great job covering up while he was on the ground, I do not think he received more than 40% of the blows Carwind delivered.
Cain needs to stick and move for 2 or 3 rounds, he has to land leg kicks, I have seen doing a great job mixing it up without telegraphing his kicks (watch the Rothwell fight and the Nog fight), if they clinch he needs to hit middle section and not to try to knee Lesnar in the face (you can ask Mir why) then maybe in the second half of the third round he needs to get a takedown, that will make Lesnar panic (you know he panic at the end of first round with Randy and on the first round with Carwin) in the 4th round Lesnar should be tired enough and Cain should keep sticking and moving , landing better combinations finishing with big leg kicks and get a take down at the end of the round try to finish him by TKO in the end of 4th round or the 5th round.
He should only try to get a takedown at the end of the rounds when Lesnar is tired because that way if Lesnar ends up on top will not have enough time to finish Cain...
Yeah but isn't that the same thing that Valasquez is, a wrestler that learned to strike and GnP? He's faster and stronger, but has about 1o years less experience in it.
Cain is amazing... But, what's he going to do? Barnett said the same thing, he'd just run for five rounds. How does that make sense? Lesnar is faster on his feet than all the other HW's, they're not going to just scream and run in a big circle for 5 rounds without him putting his hands on them. Not realistic... Also, Cain hits maybe half as hard as Carwin. Carwin landed clean on Lesnar's head, with fresh arms, with fists and knees and elbows, his best heat. None of it was significant enough to result in anything close to what could be considered a knockdown. I think Lesnar can run straight at Cain, with no respect for his punching power, making no attempt to block punches during his take-downs. He can walk through them with his hands on his hips. Cain's only hope is to pull guard, and find some kind of submission somewhere.
The running in a circle screaming would only be entertaining for about a 1/2 a round......
And it will get a fighter cut, just ask Houston.
except when you open your mouth hahahha
*urp*
Remember that guy who looked like Paul Wall and ran away from Quarry for 3 rounds? I can't remember his name!!!!!!!!!! He ever give an explanation for that? I'm going to have to find that DVD now. Ugh!!
I personally am going with Cain. I don't think Brock's size will be enough
well how bout his superior wrestling, training partner randy couture helping him and his iron chin?
Using the world iron chin pretty loosely. He still got dropped quickly. He knows how to overcome adversity by covering up well.
nobody else has survived carwins shots, and lesnar took more than anybody and was still smiling at the end of the round
for the people who say cain cannot knock out brock just because shane carwin couldnt... thats pretty silly.... rampage couldnt knock out jardine... but bader did... and rampage is a far better striker....... Cain is a much better technical fighter than shane carwin and besides the KO power of shane poses much more of a threat to brock... im a brock fan but unless brock can take cain down or drasticly improve his stand up he will be in a world of trouble come ufc 121... cain has five rounds to hurt brock.... I do think brock had a big advantage on the ground if he can get it there...( not just because he submitted carwin)... but if brock shows no improvement he could lose... as he is fighting a much more accurate striker with much better cardio in Cain...
You're arguing that those big welts and cuts and bruises all over Lesnar's face, were from punches that weren't effective, because they weren't accurate? *lost me* They were effective enough to smash everyone else who tried to take it though.
Watch Cain fight Rothwell, he t's off on Rothwell, which is why the fight was stopped. But, those shots were all clean, undefended, on the button, over and over, and Rothwell was unmoved...
I like Cain. But unless he's got special permission to install super robot-arms, he's not going to hurt Lesnar standing. And, despite Lesnar being twice Cain's size, he also moves across the ground faster.
Is Lesnar just going to stand there in one spot and get punched over and over without responding? Cain can't run to point it out, it doesn't matter if the ratio of punches landed ends up being 70 to 2 like with Shane. Shane landed clean, with an uppercut that would have KO'd most other fighters. Ditto the knee and the elbows on the ground, and the other 15 or so fresh Shane-Carwin power shots that found the target. Any one of those strikes by themselves, takes other fighters out. Give that beating to Cain, and he'd be in the ICU hooked up to machines, anybody would.
He can't hurt him standing, he can't play Lyoto and try to avoid to squeak by on points, he can't wrestle with Lesnar... And, what did we learn from the last fight? Lesnar has submission knowledge, Cain hasn't submitted anybody and is listed as a pure kickboxer wrestler. Lesnar may well submit him.
around the ring i can never respect the man again. i heard they seen him buying depends becouse he was have nightmares about the fight.if he sees a picture of shane he ill sheet his pants right there in front of whoever.if you see him stick his hand up at the end of the fight you can see thst he was partialy retarded from the blows. that is why i am going with cain sorry buddy you showed your real colors
your a complete clown
I don't think Cain desreves a shot yet but whatever Dos Santos is the number one contender in my opinion.
Carwin exposed Lesnar weaknesses. And his own. But Cain will take the belt home.
Carwin didn't expose anything, what are you talking about? You act like it's news to you that with Shane "anybody will go to sleep" if he touches their chin. But, for everybody else, getting knocked out cold is a strength? Absorbing it and then standing up to continue the fight, is a weakness?
Show me one example of someone surviving something like that? Fedor would have been knocked out 10 times over. Cain would have been out (Shane, would have been KO'd himself trying to receive that).
I'm just wondering what Cain's strategy should be? He could poop himself, then win by DQ if Lesnar won't roll in it with him. That's an outside chance.
He's never, in any fight ever against anyone, going to deliver as much destruction as Shane did. Their power is not even in the same ballpark. He can score points, but not for 25 minutes without Lesnar responding. Crazyness.