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| Carwin vs Lesnar | |
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| Topic Started: Mar 28 2010, 04:16 PM (509 Views) | |
| Post #1 Mar 28 2010, 04:16 PM | James |
 Source:yahoo.com NEWARK, N.J. – If Shane Carwin keeps this up, he’s going to give mixed martial arts a bad name. This is the sport that takes a lifetime to master. It requires hours upon hours of daily training. It humbles even the greatest of athletes and the strongest of men. You don’t do MMA as a side job and win championships against the best in the world. At least, that was the conventional wisdom before Carwin came along and blew that school of thought to bits. Carwin still holds down a full-time job as an engineer and is a married father of a newborn daughter. That’s plenty to make the average man weary at the end of a lengthy day. When other men are calling it a day, however, is when Carwin is just beginning. On Saturday in the co-main event of UFC 111 at the Prudential Center, he showed he’s pretty good at his side job, too. He needed just three minutes, 48 seconds of the first round to obliterate Frank Mir, as he had his 11 previous opponents, to claim the interim UFC heavyweight title and earn the right to face champion Brock Lesnar at UFC 116 on July 3. Carwin had never gone beyond 2:11 in any of his previous professional bouts, and he entered Saturday’s fight with Mir hounded by skeptics. He was quizzed about his conditioning and whether he’d be able to go deep into a fight with Mir. None of his 11 victims, save for Gabriel Gonzaga, could compare to the who’s who of MMA stars that Mir had beaten, so many suggested Carwin was in over his head. Mir’s jiu-jitsu is deadly and his boxing very technical, and there are many who believed he was too complete and too gifted for Carwin. A few left uppercuts and a couple of hard punches on the ground, though, left Mir in a heap and pushed Carwin to the tippy top of a suddenly loaded heavyweight division. He overpowered Mir just like he’d overpowered so many others. He may not have been technical, but he sure was effective. “The plan was to push Frank up against the fence and dirty box him,” Carwin said. “I’m kind of mean and aggressive there. We worked on that all camp, just getting him to the fence and beating him up and trying to take him into the later rounds.” Mir took Carwin longer than he’d ever been before, but he did little offensively. And none of that surprised the man who had beaten Mir for the title at UFC 100. Lesnar was seated at ringside and smirked when he watched Mir pull himself off the canvas. He was confident he’d be facing Carwin, and the way the fight played out confirmed his suspicions. “I kind of figured Shane was going to win, though I know anything can happen in this sport,” Lesnar said. “I was kind of laying back and I didn’t want to count any chickens before they hatched. Shane’s a tough guy and I just know that Frank’s time is done. This is the new evolution of the heavyweight division. Brock Lesnar, Shane Carwin, Cain Velasquez, Junior dos Santos, we’re the guys in this division.” Neither Lesnar nor Carwin is too thrilled that Carwin won an interim championship. The bout was made for the interim title while Lesnar was sidelined by diverticulitis, an illness that forced him to pull out of a bout with Carwin slated for UFC 106 last November. After the bout was signed, it was deemed that it would be for the interim belt. UFC president Dana White didn’t feel it was right to withdraw recognition after the fight had been made and Lesnar had announced his return. Though Carwin lugged the belt to the post-fight news conference, he knows he needs another win before he can truly call himself the champion. “Brock’s the champion,” Carwin said, graciously. Lesnar praised Carwin’s performance and said he was happy Mir didn’t win so he didn’t have to fight the same man a third time. Lesnar is 4-1 and if he would have met Mir again, it would have been his third fight with Mir in six career fights. Carwin put an end to that by blowing Mir out. While that earned Lesnar’s partial respect, he wasn’t going too far. “This belt thing, well, hopefully he enjoys the moment,” Lesnar said, grinning, as Carwin posed a few feet away in the cage for photographers. “He should enjoy the win over Frank, but he has to realize that I’m the heavyweight champion. Everybody knows that. Good for him winning that fake belt. “I had to pull out against him last fall and I didn’t feel good about that. But I couldn’t fight a guy like that if I wasn’t in the best shape of my life. I had to do what I had to do.” Carwin did what he had to do as well, setting up what figures to be one of the UFC’s biggest pay-per-views ever. Lesnar said he’s healthy and able to fight in July, and Carwin came out of the event without a scratch. Fans love heavyweights, particularly heavyweights who can punch. UFC president Dana White knows he’s sitting on a gold mine with a Lesnar-Carwin bout upcoming, particularly as he puts together a highlight reel of their knockouts. He said Carwin should have ended any doubts about his qualifications to fight for the belt by decimating a fighter as talented and respected as Mir. “Shane finished Frank Mir very quickly tonight,” White said. “There isn’t a person in this room or at home watching on television who wasn’t blown away by Frank’s last performance. If you thought Frank Mir was going to win the fight, you said, ‘Yeah, he’ll probably beat Cheick Kongo,’ but you didn’t think he was going to drop him in the standup. Nobody did. Nobody expected that to happen. He dropped him and went over and submitted him and Frank Mir looked unstoppable. “He was in great shape tonight, but Shane Carwin went out there and stopped him, easily. He finished Frank Mir in the first round tonight, like all those other fights, and you’re out of your mind if you don’t think that Shane has a chance against Brock Lesnar.” He clearly has a chance against Lesnar, which should thrill the thousands of MMA fans who have made Lesnar the man they love to hate. Speaking of hate, though, some of his peers may begin to hate on Carwin if he wins the outright title while holding down a day job, raising a young family and training in his spare time. He’s making them all look bad by beating guys like Mir and Gonzaga as essentially a part-time fighter. If he does the same to Lesnar, UFC lightweight champion B.J. Penn may have to share his nickname, “The Prodigy,” with Carwin. “I do this because I love to do it, not because I have to do it,” Carwin said. “That makes a huge difference.” |
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| Post #2 Mar 28 2010, 04:41 PM | BJN |
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I think Carwin is going to take the title from Brock. Carwin is just to much of a beast. |
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| Post #3 Mar 28 2010, 05:19 PM | The Comedian |
| I dunno with Lesnar you can never really count him out plus with mir out of the way he is going to want to put a claim on his title. Even if its to make a point to mir basically saying im better than you. |
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| Post #4 Mar 28 2010, 09:05 PM | James |
| I think it will be Lesnar's toughest fight yet, but I think he will win. |
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| Post #5 Mar 29 2010, 02:17 PM | Faro |
| I'm sticking with me long time friend Brock Lesnar! |
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