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.”
Filed under: UFC, FanHouse ExclusiveOvershadowed by a heavyweight title fight, and the promotional debut of one of the most successful non-UFC fighters in history, teacher and student square off at UFC 121.
Overshadowed by a heavyweight title fight, and the promotional debut of one of the most successful non-UFC fighters in history, teacher and student square off at UFC 121.
Matt Hamill was was one of Tito Ortiz‘s prized pupils on Season 3 of “The Ultimate Fighter.” On Saturday in Anaheim, Calif., they meet nearly five years after filming the show, and their careers couldn’t be going in much more opposite directions. Yet most eyes are on Brock Lesnar-Cain Velasquez and Jake Shields-Martin Kampmann.
Ortiz is far removed from his days as one of the most dominant champions in UFC history. He hasn’t won a fight in four years. Hamill, on the other hand, has won four straight. But Hamill isn’t looking at the what-have-you-done-for-me-lately side of his former coach, now adversary.
“Tito has fought a lot of good fighters and he has had amazingly close fights,” Hamill told MMA Fighting. “But I’m not thinking about his record or what his own mindset coming into this fight is. I’m just focusing on fine-tuning my own skills and my own mindset.”
UFC president Dana White confirmed with MMA Fighting Friday night that the heavyweight title fight will take place at the yet-to-be officially announced event, scheduled for Oct. 23 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif.