Brock Lesnar Wins UFC World Heavyweight Title

I’ll be the first one to admit that I was wrong in my prediction of picking Randy Couture to retain the UFC World Heavyweight Title against Brock Lesnar. I was thinking that he would have Lesnar trapped on the ground and ultimately submit the former WWE Champion in the third round, but I was wrong.

Instead, Brock Lesnar did what I feared and that was catching the 45-year old Randy Couture with a thunderous right hand behind his right ear. Couture went crashing down to the canvas, with Lesnar following suite to provide more punishing blows to the head.

The fight was officially stopped in round 2 at 3:07 when Brock Lesnar was named the brand new UFC World Heavyweight Champion via technical knockout by way of strikes to Randy Couture.

The UFC World Heavyweight Championship joins Brock Lesnar’s trophy case of past accomplishments in the professional wrestling to the likes of the WWE World Heavyweight Championship three times, winning the 2002 WWE King of the Ring, winning the 2003 WWE Royal Rumble, and the IWGP World Heavyweight Championship in New Japan Pro Wrestling.

We must not forget Lesnar’s amateur wrestling accolades as well, which are the accomplishments that really shaped the foundation and legitimacy of Brock Lesnar initially becoming an MMA fighter and UFC star. Those accomplishments include the 2000 NCAA Division I Championship, the NJCAA All-American in 1997 and 1998, the 1998 Junior College National Championship, the Big Ten Conference Championship in 1999 and 2000, and the North Dakota State University's annual Bison tournament Heavyweight Championship in 1997, 1998, and 1999.

Brock Lesnar has done it all from dominating amateur wrestling, to headlining WrestleMania, forgoing a brief stint in the NFL with the Minnesota Vikings, to entering the sport of mixed martial arts upon becoming the UFC World Heavyweight Champion in his fourth pro fight.

Brock Lesnar is not “the next big thing,” he IS the big thing!

The first title defense for Brock Lesnar will come sometime in 2009 against the winner of UFC Interim Heavyweight Champion, Antônio Rodrigo Nogueira vs. Frank Mir at UFC 92 on December 27, 2008. The two clear champions will face off in a unification fight to create an undisputed UFC World Heavyweight Champion.

What a full circle of events it would be if Frank Mir were to become the UFC Interim Heavyweight Champion. He would be facing the current UFC World Heavyweight Champion, Brock Lesnar, to unify the titles, and as we all know, Lesnar lost his first UFC fight to Frank Mir at UFC 81 on February 2, 2008 by a kneebar submission hold. Lesnar was heavily criticized for the loss due to his lack of awareness inside the Octagon on the technicality front of fighting.

As we then saw though, Brock came back on August 9, 2008 at UFC 87 and defeated Heath Herring via decision at the end of 3 rounds. The Brock Lesnar we saw from the Herring fight was a totally new fighter from the Mir fight in the sense of smarts and ring awareness. He fought the fight as if he owned the place and he used the real estate he was given to his full advantage by charging Herring full on. This was the domination and confidence Lesnar lacked against Frank Mir.

Finally, Brock Lesnar was able to master his craft at UFC 91 on November 15, 2008 by earning himself his third MMA victory against Randy Couture for the sport’s richest prize – the UFC World Heavyweight Title. UFC President Dana White no longer has to sell us on the Brock Lesnar hype because the hype speaks for itself in the Octagon now.

Brock Lesnar is for real folks. Sphere: Related Content