As part of his time in Las Vegas, Nevada filming for the current season of “The Ultimate Fighter”, UFC heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar spent some time visiting the Xtreme Couture gym.
According to Bellator Season Four tournament semi-finalist, Jay “The Thoroughbred” Hieron, who practices his trade at the gym, Lesnar tore through everyone while doing some ground work on the mat.
Lesnar will meet opposing coach Junior dos Santos on June 11 in the main event of UFC 131 in his quest to regain the heavyweight title back from Cain Velasquez. While Hieron is waiting to find out the date of his semi-final tournament bout.
Hieron spoke to Fighters Mag (quote via MMAMania.com) about Lesnar’s visit.
“The guy is just a whole different animal. It was his first time back to training since the Cain fight and he was just under 300-pounds. It was something different and we never had a beast quite like that at our gym. It mostly consisted of BJJ and wrestling. A lot of rolling. He also helped some of us in the wrestling department. He did some sparring with Randy. You do not realize how strong he is and how fast he is unless you are there training or fighting him. I fight at 170 and I’ll be the first to tell you that he was much faster than I was. It’s shocking actually – the way he was just throwing guys around. Couture had him go through rounds of rolling. One person would step in, roll with Brock for 2 minutes then step out and someone else would go in. Forrest Griffin was there, Vitor was there, I was there, Sefo was there. We had a bunch of guys. He was incredibly strong, we would just go in there and get submitted a couple times and get out. He caught Forrest in the same straight armbar three times in the two minutes they were rolling. The only one he didn’t tap out was Vinny [Magalhaes] but it was more of the same. I don’t think anyone was able to get top position without him giving it up. It was a fun experience.”