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What the guy did in college sports isnt really very impressive to me.
I played for my university cricket team, but I dont think that means I can compare myself to any professional cricketer.
Simply put Lesner comes from a background of taking part in a scripted entertainment show where actors act out pre-determined plots and pretend to fight.
You may have to fit & athletic to do it well, so are stuntman in Hollywood movies, but WWF/WWE is not a sport.
If, in a very few fights, this actor can dominate the sport of MMA in my opinion that gives the sport a big credibility issue. Something like Stallone being able to win a heavyweight title based on what he learned filming the movie Rocky.
From what I have seen on Youtube, Lesner is a strong man with limited skill, very slow hands, and with one basic fight plan. Fedor is one of the few MMA fighters I have watched who seems to fight with a clear methodology, and go out there with a plan more complicated than covering himself in baby oil so that his opponent cant throw him or just piling forward and trying to outmuscle the other man... I expect him to dance and clinch alternately, chip away at him and frustrate him, stay out of any danger, and put away an exhausted Lesner somewhere around Round 8
A big man like Lesner probably has a prayer against anyone because he will hit hard (although as I said with very slow hands)... and you could always have one of those moments like Michael Moorer lunging accidentally straight into to a slow, mighty, George Foreman straight right - and its night night however good you are if a man with that kind of raw power lands flush.... whether its a clumsy fighter like Lesner or an old man like Big George.
But I give Lesner a 1/100 chance unless Fedor looses control and tries to trade with the guy. The fact Fedor is something like 25-1 should demonstrate even though he doesnt have a perfect record he should be too clever for that.
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