Sunday, November 16, 2008

the bull and the bear?

how about that? brock lesnar open-fired cement-block punches at couture. and couture saying "it's hard to get away from those punches." a UFC hall-of-famer making his concession statement. you got to give it to lesnar. i thought he was more patient this time unlike his first fights where he was a little careless like his fight with mir. he waited for the right time to launch his assault against captain america and he pulled it off. very patient, but relentless when he got the upper-hand. he was like a machine pounding on couture. randy looked like he was flatten by a steam roller after the fight ended.

you got to give it to couture also for staying that long. after a year lay-off and at his age plus a good strategy- to weaken lesnar, couture deserves some admiration. with lesnar learning and getting better in MMA, couture deserves credit for keeping up with the mammoth in lesnar. i really thought couture could have won the fight. up until right before lesnar knocked randy couture with... was it a right hook?, couture was standing up against lesnar and scoring better, i thought.

like what i said before, couture will bring a good gameplan. he's not only versatile, he's wise. he will try to drop lesnar to the ground and look for submission. and he will stand up against lesnar. and so he did. but lesnar was a smarter guy this time and took the better part of couture. very patient, waited before shooting for the take-down. got the chance he was waiting for, knocked randy down and brought a storm of hammer punches at couture. i guess one thing was proven here, brock proved me wrong. hat's off to lesnar. the mammoth polar bear manhandled the bull

now that he's the heavyweight champ, he's looking at the possibility of facing frank mir again if mir wins over "minotauro" nogueira. how about the new and improved brock lesnar versus mir whom he lost to once?

and how about the "rubber" match between hazelett and mccrory? "rubber"- these guys utilized the rubber guard to submit each other. a lot of fighters strike, pound on the ground, some choke or use the guillotin, others use other forms like arm bar, leg-lock, but these two went for the rubber guard. these guys can flex. it looked more like a fight of conturtionists. hazelett won via arm bar though. yeepeee!

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