UFC 81 Brock Lesnar Vs. Frank Mir TONIGHT!!

[Ken785]

Who do you guys think will win?

Frank has the experience although he sucks and isn't a top 10 competitor imo, Brock is just a beginner but is very powerful and strong and is a great wrestler (real wrestling). I know there are going to be a lot of WWE members in the crowd tonight wanting to watch Brock, so it'll be interesting to see what happens...I'm rooting for Brock to win, but would I bet on it?? HmMm....

 

[Damocles]

Lesnar's gonna tank in the second round.

Frank Mir will win by submission.

Unless Lesnar can knock his ass out early... which could be possible. That man's a 260 lb monster.

 

[Ken785]

I know...im not impressed by Mir's abilities at all, but again im kinda iffy about Brock being a beginner. I guess we'll see in about 30 min.

 

[6-heads lewis]

I bet 40 to win 50 on Mir based on a tip from an expert UFC capper. I dont know anything about either guy, except that Brock is nailing Sable.

 

[joekerr31]

i think MIR will win.

lesnar is big, but the guy is slow. my money says MIR leg kicks him a dozen times so that Lesnar can barely move, then knocks him out with a shot to the jaw.

mma is so difficult, because being big just ain't enough. if you don't have the full package you will get destroyed.

 

[joekerr31]

sweet i called it. lesnar loses. although not by a knock out punch.

 

[6-heads lewis]

As a boxer and boxing fan, I can tell you Lesnar's punches are dreadful. I watched the preview shows. No snap at all, entirely arm punches with no hip rotation, like he's pushing the target not smashing through. Reminds me of Tommy Speer's awkward and crappy punches.

 

[Ken785]

Yeah Lesnar needs a lot of work...but someday he can be something special once hes molded into an all around fighter. He's strong and was all over Mir, i knew that if Mir would win it'll be because Brock would slip into submission, but Brock was obviously stronger than Mir.

 

[armadon]

Ah it was a good card tonight. i'm glad big Tim finally got taken down and subnmitted. i give Tim credit though, at least he came out fighting for once instead of his usual garbage as of late.

 

[Bible_Belt]

The fight business is about selling tickets and ppv. Brock sells tickets, poor punching and bad jiu-jitsu aside, thus the $250,000 paycheck he got for a 90 second performance. By contrast, Keith Jardin got paid $14,000 to beat Chuck Liddell, who got paid $500,000 to lose that fight.

 

[lookyoung]

Lesnar is **** strong but came in totally unprepared for that fight. I think they did a terrible job of preparing him. He needs to train with someone like Randy Coutoure or tito ortiz. I think he has what it takes to be a top ten fighter. When he was on top of mir he should have been more relaxed. Flatten him out and slowly grounded and pounded him.

You could see that he was fighting nervous and did not have a clue how to pass the guard. How about all those guillotine submissions tonight. Brazilian jiu-jitsu rules.:rockon:

 

[The Inside Man]

I didn;t know jardine only got paid 14,000 for that fight, thats pathetic...
Just watched the fights tonight at a local sports bar, both of the guys I was wanting to win in the last two events got their victory. Sick kneebar by Mir, I thought he was going to get GnP'd to death. for a minute but was rooting for him the whole time. The sylvia-nog fight had me on the edge of my seat too, and how about david boetsch throwing heath's lifeless body into the cage after softening him up? ouch!

 

[KontrollerX]

It was stupid for Lesnar to take this fight against an absolute pro when he's only had one other MMA fight to his record.

Pretty humiliating loss but if Brock trains harder mentally and physically to eliminate the rookie mistakes he can make a comeback and do something impressive eventually in UFC.

 

[Tyron]

It was good match up imo for Lesnar. If you lose, you lose to a former champion. If you win, the win would have been a huge lift. I think Lesnar will be a good fighter when he learns to defend.

 

[LoneSilver]

I'd like to see Lesnar learn from his loss and come back in a few years with more skills and start kicking some butt he really is a good guy.

LoneSilver

 

[The Kidd]

Lesnar is **** strong but came in totally unprepared for that fight. I think they did a terrible job of preparing him. He needs to train with someone like Randy Coutoure or tito ortiz. I think he has what it takes to be a top ten fighter. When he was on top of mir he should have been more relaxed. Flatten him out and slowly grounded and pounded him.

You could see that he was fighting nervous and did not have a clue how to pass the guard. How about all those guillotine submissions tonight. Brazilian jiu-jitsu rules.:rockon:

i thought royce gracie was training brock lesnar

i dunno maybe im wrong

 

[Skel]

i thought royce gracie was training brock lesnar

i dunno maybe im wrong

Nope, Brock was with miletich which is why he sucked. He could have pushed on Mir's butt to get out of the the submission instead of tapping but that is due to inexperience.

The Boetsch fight was the ****. Here is a highlight

 

[Paradox]

By contrast, Keith Jardin got paid $14,000 to beat Chuck Liddell, who got paid $500,000 to lose that fight.

Any proof of this?

 

[Bible_Belt]

http://mmajunkie.com/2007/09/25/ufc-76-salaries-chuck-liddell-earns-500000-jardine-gets-14000/

He did get a 50% bonus for winning, so it was actually $21,000 to beat Liddell. It was $14,000 to take the fight.

 

[Bible_Belt]

Here's the fight video, link works for now:

http://www.youtube.com/v/Z9gnd63eoGc&rel=1