(Will Shane bring the pain, or does Brock have this on lock? Anybody want a peanut?)
UFC president Dana White, heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar, interim champ Shane Carwin, and middleweights Chris Leben and Yoshihiro Akiyama are all about to take t…
(Will Shane bring the pain, or does Brock have this on lock? Anybody want a peanut?)
UFC president Dana White, heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar, interim champ Shane Carwin, and middleweights Chris Leben and Yoshihiro Akiyama are all about to take the stage at the MGM Grand Garden Arena’s Hollywood Theatre for a UFC 116 press-conference. You can follow the presser live on CagePotato.com via the media-player after the jump, starting at 4 p.m. ET / 1 p.m. PT. If you’re watching, let us know your thoughts in the comments section…
By CagePotato contributor Dallas Winston For a match-up of such epic proportions, both literally and figuratively, Lesnar vs. Carwin does not offer a ton of evidence to analyze.
In the grand scheme of the MMA heavyweight scene, both Brock Lesnar an…
By CagePotato contributor Dallas Winston
For a match-up of such epic proportions, both literally and figuratively, Lesnar vs. Carwin does not offer a ton of evidence to analyze.
In the grand scheme of the MMA heavyweight scene, both Brock Lesnar and Shane Carwin are relative newcomers, as their total career fights combined equates to a number one-half of former god Fedor Emelianenko’s times at bat. In only five fights, Lesnar has shown marked improvement and new aspects of an evolving game in each outing, and even though Carwin specified that his focus is becoming a well-rounded fighter, his right hand alone has left a trail of twelve motionless cadavers in its wake.
My team of MMA scientists submitted the official report from their pre-fight ceremonial ritual — in which bits of evidence are fed into the “MMA Math Machine” to extrapolate key factors that assist in fight predictions — and the findings for both read: Big. Strong. Wrestle good. Punch hard.
As much I’d like to over-glorify things, that’s really what this fight boils down to.
“The Crippler” explained how the UFC gave him an offer he couldn’t refuse to fight on two weeks’ notice, why this is the biggest fight of his life and why he took exception with Akiyama’s hesitancy to initially agree to the fight.
Watch a highlight video of Leben discussing all these issues and working out in front of the fans, shot and edited by MMA Fighting’s E. Casey Leydon, below.
Filed under: UFCAfter a serious health scare and a year away, UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar will finally return to the Octagon Saturday night at UFC 116, and his return will come against his biggest opponent to date, the undefeated Shane Carwin…
After a serious health scare and a year away, UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar will finally return to the Octagon Saturday night at UFC 116, and his return will come against his biggest opponent to date, the undefeated Shane Carwin. It’s one of the biggest heavyweight battles in the history of mixed martial arts, and it’s the main event of what may be the UFC’s biggest pay-per-view show of the year. We’ve got the full preview and predictions below.
Filed under: UFCSeth Petruzelli isn’t kidding himself. Despite the four-fight win streak he’s accumulated since his last run in the UFC ended in 2007, he knows that there’s one win in particular that is more responsible than the rest for his return to …
Seth Petruzelli isn’t kidding himself. Despite the four-fight win streak he’s accumulated since his last run in the UFC ended in 2007, he knows that there’s one win in particular that is more responsible than the rest for his return to the Octagon at UFC 116 this Saturday.
And no, it isn’t his first-round TKO of 9-18 fighter Sean Sallee, or even his most recent victory via submission over 5-5 Ryan White.
“Obviously, the Kimbo [Slice] win helped tremendously,” Petruzelli (12-4) told MMA Fighting. “Without that, I think it would have taken a few more wins for me to get back in the UFC.”
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Shane Carwin is an undefeated fighter about to have by far the biggest fight in his mixed martial arts career on Saturday night, when he challenges Brock Lesnar for the heavyweight title at UFC 116.
Shane Carwin is an undefeated fighter about to have by far the biggest fight in his mixed martial arts career on Saturday night, when he challenges Brock Lesnar for the heavyweight title at UFC 116.
But if things had gone just a little bit differently, the 35-year-old Carwin could be winding down a long NFL career right now, not reaching the pinnacle of his MMA career. Carwin was a Division 2 All-American linebacker at Western State College, and in an appearance on SportsCenter Wednesday, he talked about what might have been in football.
LAS VEGAS — 
After a serious health scare and a year away, UFC heavyweight champion 
