VANCOUVER, British Columbia — MMA Fighting spoke to Junior dos Santos following his win over Shane Carwin at UFC 131 about his performance, whether he thought the fight should have been stopped in the first round, Carwin’s cardio in the bout and his upcoming fight for the title against heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez.
VANCOUVER, British Columbia — MMA Fighting spoke to Junior dos Santos following his win over Shane Carwin at UFC 131 about his performance, whether he thought the fight should have been stopped in the first round, Carwin’s cardio in the bout and his upcoming fight for the title against heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez.
Filed under: UFCTo 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 …
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.”