Filed under: UFCANAHEIM – Cain Velasquez came into his heavyweight title fight at UFC 121 hoping for a five-round battle. He ended up needing just over four minutes to stop Brock Lesnar via TKO and claim the UFC heavyweight title in front of 14,856 fan…
ANAHEIM – Cain Velasquez came into his heavyweight title fight at UFC 121 hoping for a five-round battle. He ended up needing just over four minutes to stop Brock Lesnar via TKO and claim the UFC heavyweight title in front of 14,856 fans at the Honda Center on Saturday night.
It may have been a relatively brief affair, but what it lacked in length it more than made up for in intensity.
Lesnar set the pace right away. As soon as the bout began, the champion took one step directly to the side and then charged across the cage at Velasquez, bringing all of his 264 pounds crashing directly into the challenger.
Filed under: UFCANAHEIM, Calif. – Moments before he made his entrance to a chorus of jeers and cheers at UFC 121 in the Honda Center on Saturday night, a bearded Brock Lesnar appeared on the big screen to identify himself as the baddest man on the plan…
ANAHEIM, Calif. – Moments before he made his entrance to a chorus of jeers and cheers at UFC 121 in the Honda Center on Saturday night, a bearded Brock Lesnar appeared on the big screen to identify himself as the baddest man on the planet – a claim he’s repeated often lately, and one which few have bothered to argue.
Not long after that, the big man was sitting on the canvas, watching Cain Velasquez celebrate as the new champion while a cageside doctor attended to Lesnar’s bloody face.
Funny how quickly reality can shift in this business, often right out from under your feet.
For the moments in Saturday night’s main event where he was charging forward, Lesnar looked every bit as ferocious as advertised. But when it failed to stop Velasquez from offering up any offense of his own, that’s when we were reminded that we really don’t know all that much about this guy who, just minutes earlier, was calling himself the best.
Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC, FanHouse Exclusive, VideosANAHEIM, Calif. — MMA Fighting spoke to the new UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez following his impressive title win over Brock Lesnar at UFC 121 about the emotions going through his body, …
ANAHEIM, Calif. — MMA Fighting spoke to the new UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez following his impressive title win over Brock Lesnar at UFC 121 about the emotions going through his body, the way the fight played out and how he will celebrate this historic win.
Awesome interview by Ariel Helwani post-UFC 121 with WWE star the Undertaker.
Right after the headliner, the Undertaker was giving Helwani a little post-fight analysis, when Brock Lesnar walked by them. The Undertaker and Lesnar exchanged a tense look and a few words. Then, the Undertaker started giving Helwani a more candid view of Lesnar, more […]
Awesome interview by Ariel Helwani post-UFC 121 with WWE star the Undertaker.
Right after the headliner, the Undertaker was giving Helwani a little post-fight analysis, when Brock Lesnar walked by them. The Undertaker and Lesnar exchanged a tense look and a few words. Then, the Undertaker started giving Helwani a more candid view of Lesnar, more or less admitting there is some tension between the two WWE greats and that Lesnar should be training harder.
Kudos to Helwani for seeing an opportunity to get Undertaking talking and asking the right questions.
Watch above for more, and look for the Undertaker/Lesnar exchange around the :48 mark.
Interesting side note on that: did odds makers know Lesnar wasn’t training hard for this fight?
Filed under: MMA Videos, UFC, FanHouse Exclusive, VideosANAHEIM, Calif. — MMA Fighting spoke to wrestling legend The Undertaker following Saturday night’s UFC 121 title fight about how it all unfolded and his love of MMA. We also captured a face-to-fa…
ANAHEIM, Calif. — MMA Fighting spoke to wrestling legend The Undertaker following Saturday night’s UFC 121 title fight about how it all unfolded and his love of MMA. We also captured a face-to-face confrontational moment between Brock Lesnar and Undertaker.
When Brock Lesnar came out around a -160 favorite against Cain Velasquez, many sharp MMA betters we knew where shocked. Not that they were expecting Brock to be -550 or anything, but for a guy coming off a defining victory like he had on Shane Carwin, and with more time to fully recover from his […]
When Brock Lesnar came out around a -160 favorite against Cain Velasquez, many sharp MMA betters we knew where shocked. Not that they were expecting Brock to be -550 or anything, but for a guy coming off a defining victory like he had on Shane Carwin, and with more time to fully recover from his illness, and Lesnar being the one guy the public knows and bets heavily on more than anyone else in the UFC, -160 seemed off.
Even more surprising, the public was betting that line down, moving Brock to around -140 come fight time.
There is a general rule in sports betting: whatever the public is doing, bet against that.
So if the public moving the line down and the majority of money is coming on one side, take the other side.
Most savvy MMA betters we know bet the house on Lesnar. Whoops. To twist a Denny Green phrase, “Velasquez was not who we thought he was.” Mind you, MMA’ers have mad respect for Cain. He’s a worthy champ and then some. But this one wasn’t even close but for 10 seconds. Cain Velasquez: new UFC heavyweight champ.
In the other fights, Jake Shieldsovercame what many thought was a bad match-up and defeated Martin Kampmannvia split decision. Shield’s line went from about -240 to -200, and for good reason. But he grinded out an impressive victory and will likely be a force at 170.
Vegas had the line right on Matt Hamill vs. Tito Ortiz. Not a lot of movement, and it ended up going to decision for Hamill.
Looking ahead, UFC 122 won’t be a heavy betting card (many books only have one or two fights listed as of now). UFC 123 is the next big gamer one, with Machida currently -280 over Rampage. We’ll get odds on those cards up soon. Look for betting line previews in the coming weeks.
ANAHEIM – Cain Velasquez came into his heavyweight title fight at UFC 121 hoping for a five-round battle. He ended up needing just over four minutes to stop Brock Lesnar via TKO and claim the UFC heavyweight title in front of 14,856 fans at the Honda Center on Saturday night. 
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