ANAHEIM, Calif. – Brock Lesnar couldn’t escape this time.
New UFC champion Cain Velasquez sent a reported 14,856 fans into a frenzy by stopping Lesnar with strikes in the first round of UFC 121’s main event, which took place Saturday night at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.
The action-heavy affair, which saw the entire building on its feet throughout the matchup, capped off the evening’s pay-per-view broadcast and saw perhaps the UFC’s biggest star stripped of his title.