Brock Lesnar vs Randy Couture Result and My Take

   I think Brock said it best in a post fight interview, “this feels like a dream!” It sure does. How unreal can it get? A man who headlined Wrestlemania and won the WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment) Title a few years ago also took part in the Main Event in UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) and won their Heavyweight title.

Brock’s Hands are just too heavy!  

  It was a fight that approached with millions of speculations such as Brock is too inexperienced against “the Natural” or Randy was just too small and old to fight a monster like Lesnar. But when the fight started, all (if not just most) questions wee answered.  It was a great match between two world-class wrestler. Randy had Brock pinned against the fence and Lesnar kept calm and just felt out Couture’s game. I’m sure the first round went to Brock as he took his opponent down succesfully (with a BIG-TIME SLAM by the way) and mounted him a couple of times. But what we could tell (Though Brock didn’t openly admit it and I think that is wise.) Brock got exhausted in just the opening minutes. Randy just made him work and as Mike Goldberg pointed out, all that muscle on Brock’s body just takes up all the energy.

Randy “the Natural” Couture put up a good fight

In between rounds, Brock’s corner told him to work on the jabs as he was connecting better than Randy while Couture’s trainer told him that it was a great round and he should keep working. In the second round, it was obvious that Brock wanted to stand up but also shot for a take-down but Randy won’t let it. Lesnar caught the Natural with a huge right hand and it weakened Randy’s knees but he quickly recovered. Landing a left, Couture made Brock bleed over his right ey. Lesnar said it worried him but also pissed him off. He knew he had to finish it immediately and then POW!! Landing a straight right on Couture’s temple, Lesnar knocked his opponent down then quickly pounded with hammer fists. The Natural was not responding so the ref had to stop it. So here we are. The man  who was dubbed as the “fake wrestler” who’s trying his luck on Mixed Martial Arts won the highest prize a mixed martial artist could ever achieve. He is now one of the only few who won a UFC title with only less than 10 matches in his record and ironically shares that honor with Frank Mir (his first UFC opponent) and Randy Couture.

   Brock’s next fight will be a title defense against whoever will win the UFC Interim Heavyweight Title match between Frank Mir and Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. It will be interesting to say the least because if Mir wins, it will be Lesnar/Mir 2 and Brock will get a chance to correct his mistake. While if Big Nog wins, Lesnar will be facing the man who beat Bob Sapp, a fighter who is defenitely bigger than Brock. Still, Bob “the Monster” Sapp is no Brock Lesnar. Lesnar is a harder, quicker striker, much more agile and has sick wrestling skills. Can’t wait for Brock’s next fight and I for one am very happy for him. Well, here comes the pain, UFC!