Brock Lesnar: The Response

by LR 8/23/2007 3:23:00 PM

In fairness to the MMA community, I received some jeers and some boos from the article about Brock Lesnar. It was some crappy writing, but it was also my view and opinion on the story. So, I'm going to take a look at some of the responses I got from it, and I actually see some of the points. First off, the comment I received regarding the fact I missed the Fedor quote. Yes, I missed it, and I am ashamed to say, I can't believe I did. I had it as a point and somehow, I didn't stick it in the article. Fedor is not in the UFC, Brock.

The main complaint was the fact that Lesnar is most likely just hyping the media in order to gain a fight, and he confirmed that notion during the weekly podcast with Sherdog.com yesterday on Beatdown with TJ Desantis. So, I will give Brock the benefit of the doubt and say that yes, I can see why you'd say those things in order to get a fight in the UFC. In actuality, that's a very smart move if you are trying to get an organization to see your potential and how many people may get excited about seeing those fights. Personally, I think the class act persona is the way to go. But if he wants to go out, start some smack talk with another fighter, or maybe he'll pull a Tito Ortiz at UFC 74 in the crowd, that's his priority.

The Gonzaga quote was pretty much wrecked by my quick typing. Gonzaga's ju-jitsu is very good, and I don't think Lesnar could deal with it on the ground. I will say that I back up the Kerr statement. Kerr's health over the years including the recent GFC 1 suspension has always been in question, but if you actually watch some of the later fights, he begins to take huge face shots, and his dominant wrestling falters due to the fact that he is wobbly from the blows. I think once the first guy was able to do that, a domino effect occurred because guys later he fought saw that tape, and were able to use it against him. Kerr didn't adapt, and that's why he began to lose. His age and health didn't help obviously, but look at Randy Couture. He plans out a gameplan and executes it. What's to say Mark Kerr couldn't do the same thing?

Also, add Dan Henderson to the list of wrestlers who have more dominant credentials than Brock Lesnar. The final hit on this topic is this, I will give commendations to Brock Lesnar for being smart enough to actually make an attempt to get himself signed. Kudos to that, but I think the best way to get signed is to take some fights, and win dominantly like you did against Min Soo Kim.

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August 24. 2007 08:21

Dave Meltzer wrote this today on Lesnar/UFC:
"I don't know if Brock Lesnar has signed with UFC or not, but he's in Las Vegas for Saturday's fight and what he's doing is an angle and he and Dana White are on the same page. He's playing outsider heel, and apparently pretty well since some MMA folks who rip on wrestling fans for being stupid, are buying it. Randy Couture, who has his hands full right now, talked at the press conference yesterday saying he'd love the chance to fight Lesnar."

So it does lend some credence that this is all a work to get Lesnar some pub before possibly officially joining the UFC.

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