Brock Lesnar

By:  | Posted: Monday, August 11th, 2008 at 10:51 am.

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After watching UFC 87 this
past weekend I thought should talk a little about Brock Lesnar this week. Brock
Lesnar is the biggest MMA PPV draw for me right now. I’ve only paid for 2 MMA
PPVs in my life and both featured Brock Lesnar. The obvious appeal is that I
know the guy and used to work with him in WWE but that’s not the whole picture.
As I’ve mentioned several times before I’m fairly new to the MMA game, and far
from an expert, and because of this I enjoy watching fighters that are new to
the game.

When I watch a guy like
Brock Lesnar I’ve seen everything he’s done and know all there is to know about
him. I’ve seen every fight Brock has had, so I understand him and want to see
how he progresses. Heath Herring on the other hand, I’ve heard about and have
seen a couple of his fights but when you look at his career of 42 fights I’ve
barely scratched the surface of it and thus am not really qualified to form
much of an opinion of him as a fighter. For the price of 2 or at the most 3 PPV
events per year I will be able to see Brock Lesnar’s entire career, which I
intend to do.

With Saturday’s big win
Brock’s MMA career record goes to 2-1, which in a strange coincidence is my
record over Brock Lesnar in pro-wrestling. I got to wrestle Brock on three WWE
house shows when he was first brought up from developmental. These three
matches may have been Brock’s first WWE matches and I think they had a lot in
common with the fights in his MMA career.

After the first match I
had with Brock it was obvious that he was a tremendous athlete but he was very
green and made several rookie mistakes. He was easy to work with and had talent
but had a few holes in his game that he needed to plug. After that first match
I talked with Brock, coaching him and pointing out things he needed to change
and improve on and I could tell Brock was really paying attention and wanted to
learn. The next night we had our second match and everything single point I
made the previous night was improved upon. That night I pointed out a few other
aspects and the next night he again improved unbelievably.

Brock was a prodigy in
pro-wrestling, and after watching his match with Heath Herring, this past
Saturday, I suspect he is in MMA as well. This fight was so important to
Brock’s career and in my opinion Brock did exactly what he needed to do. I will
grant you finishing the fight on his own without letting it go to the judges
would have been better but I don’t know how anyone could see UFC 87 as anything
but a complete positive for Brock Lesnar.

Heath Herring was an
accomplished fighter with 42 professional fights and was a legit threat to
Brock Lesnar, and in his 3^rd MMA fight Brock Lesnar completely
dominated him. Brock dropped Herring with his first punch and hit him so hard
it knocked him head over heels backwards. Brock took Herring down virtually at
will and at no point in the fight was Brock Lesnar not in control let alone in
trouble of losing. Heath Herring looked to be in great shape and had 20 times
the experience of Brock Lesnar and did not manage to mount any offense what so
ever. That’s frightening!

In this fight Brock showed
far more patient and ability to control his opponent than in his first fight
and in going the distance he showed he has good enough conditioning to go the
distance without running out of gas. This is likely a good thing because until
Brock learns some submissions there is a good chance he will go the distance
while controlling and dominating opponents, assuming his opponent can survive
the punches and knees Brock throws from the ground; OUCH! I would imagine Heath
herring is still pretty damn sore from the beating he took Saturday night.

Brock Lesnar is definitely
for real, and I would imagine this is just the tip of the iceberg of what he
can achieve. I still don’t think anyone realizes how explosively fast this guy
is and with his learning curve he is going to be absolutely deadly in the years
to come. It’s a good thing Pro-Wrestling is a work because if it wasn’t my 2-1
record against Brock would be a big 0-3.

Congratulations Brock, and
continued success. It was a pleasure to know and work with you in WWE, and I
look forward to following your UFC career. You are very much living up to the
character and promos we used to joke with you about in WWE. You are the white
Incredible Hulk: “BROCK SMASH!!!!!!!!”

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