Lesnar Good For MMA?
November 18, 2008 by
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Now that Brock Lesnar, the former WWE Champion has taken Captain America’s UFC Heavyweight Championship belt the question arises – is Lesnar good for MMA? The past several years mixed martial arts has tried to separate itself from the joke fight games (i.e. fake wrestling, corrupt boxing, poorly ran MMA organizations). Brock Lesnar is no joke. He is a 265+ lb monster, an absolute freak of nature. His all around skills may not be close to those at the top of the MMA game but his size and strength more than make up for it. He’s not just a big muscle head like Bob Sapp though, Lesnar is very skilled. He is a former collegiate national champion and athletic enough to almost make himself a Minnesota Viking. That said, his thrust into stardom in the MMA world couldn’t come at a worse time. There is more scrutiny on the sport now than ever. Well, other than the days of no weight classes, less than a handful of rules, and nights of 8 man tournaments. With organizations failing left and right and there stars (Kimbo Slice) embarrassing them on network television there are a lot of people watching mixed martial arts closely wondering in what direction is the sport heading. The UFC is head and shoulders above any other mixed martial arts organization in the world. Is a freakshow really what they want as the face of their organization?














John Skank on Thu, 20th Nov 2008 5:34 am
He’ll be good for the sport if he continues to be honorable in the face of boos from the crowd and criticism from commentators. If he allows managers and promoters to capitalize on those boos to make him out to be the “bad guy” of MMA, well then we’re not much better off than wrestling because now we’re inventing personas.
I give Brock Lesnar props for making the change to MMA and I think he’s a talented fighter. Very few fighters are top notch wrestlers, strikers and submitters. He’s got two out of three, which isn’t bad at all.