Comments on: Brock Lesnar: Much Ado About Nothing (Editorial)

By: Keith Harrintgon

Keith Harrintgon — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:21:18 +0000

Apparently the author does not recognize 18 years as an amatuer wrestler as any form of a martial art. Too bad.

By: Vinz_Clortho

Vinz_Clortho — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:19:01 +0000

I totally disagree. Now at heavyweight all Brock has done for the sport is proven that in that particular weight class cutting weight is now the best strategy in town. You expect him to be an anomaly.. I think that is pretty near sighted. With the HW division left as is in the next five years I think we will see more and more fighters cutting weight to make HW, just like any other division, effectively displacing the fighters that are too far from LHW to make the cut and too small to make up the weight so they can cut and compete in what will inevitably be a division of super giants.

As the sport gets more popular if you are a big man you can look at fighting at HW if you are able to cut weight to do so as arguably the easiest, least skilled way, to get into top level MMA and I don’t think that is in any way a good thing for the sport.. neither is having adrenaline fueled semi-handicaps overshadowing your real ambassadors like ASilva and GSP.

If you want MMA to be considered in the main stream as a bunch of retarded thugs out busting heads and screaming about it then Brock is great for the sport.. if you don’t well.. then he isn’t.

I think most people are very upset with Brock because he undermines the sports integrity almost every time he opens his mouth. It might be entertaining but it has a cost and that cost is undeniable.

By: justskate19

justskate19 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 21:40:34 +0000

great article.

By: zac

zac — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:06:21 +0000

i just wish Hacksaw Jim Duggan woudl come out and hit Brock in the back with the 2×4…Hooooooo-ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

By: jcohl

jcohl — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:24:45 +0000

Not only was I uncomfortable reading those posts that accused Lesnar of juicing, one of them actually put me in the unfamiliar position of taking up for the man that I’d been verbally cruciying the last several days. The undertaking of which almost made me break out in hives, but I did it in the interests of fairness to Lesnar, and my love of the sport…

By: jcohl

jcohl — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:07:27 +0000

Personally I don’t think Lesnar is 380 with his wife on his back, but I’m sure Justipedia has his actual weight.
From what I’ve read, his walkaround is close to 290, training weight 275-280, and then he jumps in his plastics and does his wring-out for the weigh-in.
By fight time he’s probably back to around 280, or close to it. Does that sound about right to everyone?
Now you’ll have to excuse me, I have to get back to “accepting that I was flipped off by a 360+ pound vanilla gorilla”…

By: gibor

gibor — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:40:07 +0000

the weight difference is too big.

do the split !

By: gibor

gibor — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 05:35:12 +0000

umm, hows carwins ground game? u know, just in case

By: carls

carls — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:48:40 +0000

Ya I herd he gives blood, shaves his toes, and sucks it in when trying to make the weight……….I thought he was 380 not 360.

By: fr702

fr702 — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 04:02:07 +0000

I’m not a fan of the Middle finger(s) to the fans, that is some bull imo, He needs to act like he has been there before… He will be champ for awhile and that is ok, but there was no reason to flip off the fans.. What he did after the fight by getting in Mir’s face well their fight was personal on all levels and got heated after the fight, that is understandable imo but the fingers to the fans not so much…

Nate Diaz was more of a Fuuck it moment and not directed to the fans, more of hey look what i pulled off type thing… Brock literally flipped of the fans and said F~U so kinda different I believe..

O well so be it, is Lesnar bad for the sport? Well out of all the greatness that happend @ UFC 101, the only thing to hit my local paper was the Lesnar story, which I found rather interesting

Eric nice write up my friend, hit me up