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MMA UFC 121 Winner by The Gold Sheet
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MMA – UFC 121 – Brock Lesnar (Defending champion; UFC record 5-1) vs. Cain Velasquez (UFC record 8-0)
Make no mistake, Lesnar is the favorite for good reason in this bout. While both combatants come from collegiate wrestling background, Lesnar is the superior contestant on the mat. Velasquez (244 at the weigh-in) weighed in 20 pounds lighter than Lesnar (264, including the new beard…nice growth, Brock), who has trimmed down and changed his training regimen for this fight.
Brock Lesnar barely took two weeks off after his last bout, and almost immediately returned to heavy training for Velasquez. He hired a boxing coach to help improve the weak point in his game, striking and defending the strike. Lesnar has also worked incredibly hard to improve his cardio stamina, as the general consensus is that Cain Velasquez will do the MMA version of “getting on his bicycle” in order to stay on his feet and hope to use his striking power to advantage. Striking force is one of the few potential advantages he might hold in the match. Velasquez doesn’t want to go to the floor and try to out-muscle and out-wrestle a man 20 pounds heavier who was, by the way, an NCAA wrestling champion. As a matter of fact, the 244-pound Velasquez has been described as “doughy” which is not an adjective normally associated with winning fighters.
In the final analysis, Lesnar is the bigger guy, and often in fights of this nature, size matters. Lesnar has been described as a human bulldozer when he’s on a charge, and he’s much more accustomed to the limelight than Velasquez. Both of these fighters began their careers in collegiate wrestling (Lesnar the 200 NCAA champion at the University of Minnesota; Velasquez an all-American at Arizona State). Therefore, both are at the heart of it wrestlers who’s base instinct is to go to the mat. This will be a mistake for Velasquez if he loses discipline. After all, for guys this big, it can be a small ring.
Lesnar has made rapid progress in the sport, as demonstrated by his avenging his only UFC loss (in his first fight) against Frank Mir. Each time he fights, he adds an expertise in a different area of the game. This fight will be no different. In order to be the champ, you have to beat the champ, and Velasquez is going to have a lot of trouble dealing with the new and improved version of Brock Lesnar (Lesnar 2.0?).
While Vegas has posted Lesnar a -170 or -175 favorite, the offshores have him as low as -140. From our perspective, this is far too cheap.
WE LIKE LESNAR TO WIN AND RETAIN HIS HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPIONSHIP.
