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UFC 91: Brock Lesnar beats Randy Couture
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Randy Couture is 93 years old, and Brock Lesnar can benchpress a bus.
Now that we’ve touched on the two biggest themes leading up to the UFC 91 main event — age and size — let’s get right into the UFC heavyweight championship at MGM Grand in Las Vegas.
With a powerful straight right hand to Couture’s temple in the second round, Lesnar dropped the UFC legend to the canvas. Lesnar quickly pounced on Couture and fired away with hammer fists until referee Mario Yamasaki stopped the fight 3:07 into the second round.
“I can’t believe it,” Lesnar said. “I just believe in hard work and that it pays off. I may come across as a cocky SOB, but I’m just confident.”
Lesnar (3-1), hit Couture with an elbow 15 seconds into the second round that stunned Couture and made his legs wobble. Couture recovered and managed to land a shot that cut Lesnar above the right eye 1:30 into second round.
But the 270-pound Lesnar proved to be too big and too strong for the three-time UFC heavyweight champion, who last fought in the Octagon 15 months ago thanks to contract squabbles with the UFC.
“There are some big ham-hocks coming at you,” said Couture (16-9). “It’s hard to get out of the way of those. This performance wasn’t my best. I made some mistakes, I got caught.”
I made a few mistakes, too. I went 1-4 in my last-minute predictions. Next time, I should just follow our readers’ thoughts since 32.6 percent of you called the Lesnar TKO/KO correctly.
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