White: By beating “best heavyweight of all time,” UFC 110’s Velasquez title-fight standby

With a dominating victory over what he called “probably the best heavyweight of all time,” UFC president Dana White has reiterated an earlier promise and said UFC 110 main-event winner Cain Velasquez is on standby for a title shot.

If the winner of next month’s UFC 111 interim-title fight between Frank Mir and Shane Carwin is injured or sidelined, Velasquez instead gets the title with champion Brock Lesnar.

“We’ll see what happens with Mir and Carwin – see who wins that – and if the guys come out unscathed, they’ll fight for the title,” White said after UFC 110 at Acer Arena in Sydney, New South Whales, Australia. “If not, then Cain Velasquez will get that slot.”


With a dominating victory over what he called “probably the best heavyweight of all time,” UFC president Dana White has reiterated an earlier promise and said UFC 110 main-event winner Cain Velasquez is on standby for a title shot.

If the winner of next month’s UFC 111 interim-title fight between Frank Mir and Shane Carwin is injured or sidelined, Velasquez instead gets the title with champion Brock Lesnar.

“We’ll see what happens with Mir and Carwin – see who wins that – and if the guys come out unscathed, they’ll fight for the title,” White said after UFC 110 at Acer Arena in Sydney, New South Whales, Australia. “If not, then Cain Velasquez will get that slot.”