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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
They wanted this guy in as champ. They know he cant stay there because someone with credibility will have to fight him and make a fool of him sooner or later, but they ant to milk it as much as they can.
After being beaten by a fringe contender they gave the title to a 46 year old light heavy so that Lesner could beat him and take it.
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First off.
Randy Couture.
25 Pro Fights. Of those only seven were at light heavyweight. He won the UFC 13 HW tourney. 3 time HW champ. He is a smaller HW so he can cut down to LHW but heavy is his natural weight class.
Second. Randy Couture's last HW title win was on March 3, 2007. Brock's first MMA fight (not in even his first UFC fight) was June 2, 2007. His first UFC fight wasn't until after Randy had already defended his belt once. Clearly Dana only gave him the belt so Brock could take it though.
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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
Lesner stomps about, making the same silly promo's he did in WWE
Lesner is, in my opinion, someone who has built his bulk up by juicing (he may be clean now, but the best explanation of the gap between his supposedly great college career and playing pro sport was to get the steroids out of his system in my opinion)
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Or the best explaination for it is that Vince McMahon was willing to pay him millions of dollars while the UFC at the time couldn't offer him anywhere near that. As far as his "supposedly" great college career
- NJCAA All-American twice
- 1998 NJCAA Heavyweight Champion
- NCAA All-American twice
- Big Ten Conference Champion twice
- 2000 NCAA heavyweight champion
- 106–5 over his four years in college
There's nothing "supposedly" good about it.
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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
Quite frankly, after winning 3 fights, the fact that a WWF world champion is now the champion of MMA really says everything.
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If he wasn't a former WWE champion, but anyone else with the college credentials listed above would he still be a joke?
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I think some of the zealous fans would still not suspect a thing is Fedor "pulls out" and The Undertaker takes on Lesner for the title and buries him.
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Don't forget about how bad Hulk Hogan beat Rocky in Rocky III! Wrestlers > MMA fighters AND Boxers!
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Originally Posted by Strange Famous
Who was handed the title after beaten (1) a nobody (2) a fringe contender who had already beaten him (3) a middle aged man who's natural weight is 178 lbs.
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Actually it was
1) Min-Soo Kim - a nobody
2) Heath Herring - a perennial gate keeper
3) Randy Couture - a three time HW Champ who's natural weight is 220lbs not 178
4) Mir - a former HW Champion who had just KO'ed one of the top Heavyweights (Nogueira was considered the #2 HW behind only Fedor) who had never lost a fight by anything but decision and was considered one of the top heavyweights ever