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To hear Cain Velasquez talk about Brock Lesnar, maybe size does matter. But the way he looks at things, it’s not something he can’t overcome.
Velasquez (8-0, 6-0 UFC) gets his shot at Lesnar, the UFC heavyweight champion, Saturday at UFC 121 in Anaheim, Calif. Only Randy Couture has been a smaller opponent for Lesnar than Velasquez, who is 6-foot-1 and likely to come in around 240 pounds.
Preparing for the 6-3, 265-pound Lesnar presented unique training camp challenges for Velasquez.
“I definitely haven’t faced anybody else of his size, his athletic ability, his power,” Velasquez said on a media call for UFC 121 last week. “All I can do is just train as hard as I can at the gym, get as many sparring partners that I can that are good wrestlers and make the best of it. I definitely feel confident in my abilities.”