Lesnar vs. Eddie Sanchez would have been the kind of match you make when you've signed a big star with relatively little experience.
It doesn't even make Lesnar look bad if that was their intention. Or if they wanted to get WWE fans by having their (ex) champion being beaten. It wasn't even a beat down, it lasted 20 or so seconds and ended in an ankle lock. That won't appeal to new fans, just the opposite. This was a good chance to catch a new audience (pro wrestling fans) and was completely butchered. They also ****ed over, or at least set back, someone who was supposed to be their new poster boy.
I feel bad for Brock but he did fairly well against someone with that kinda experience for his first fight.
The strength discrepancy was apparent. Lesnar would have demolished a stand up fighter. He was almost demolishing Mir. But with a jits fighter, they can catch you at any time. And Lesnar was way too excited, thought he had the fight almost finished, and was running on adrenaline. He stopped paying attention, and that's all it took. Instead of laying down in Mir's guard, he was trying to stand and pass. Silly, silly match making by the UFC. I really don't get what they were doing there.
@ sylvia You have never been recognized as the best man in Heavyweight. Your funky ass can't even headline a card, you've constantly been pushed aside card after card.
Extra Extra: "Poster Boy submits in 20 seconds, WWE fans laugh and turn back on Monday Night Raw" Vince McMahon is also having a fair laugh.
Seriously, Have no clue why that is so big, is that what happens when you put Extra Extra? Swear I didn't do that. Extra Extra: Test
Man but Lesnar will be a force with more training and experience, it sounds like he was destroying Mir out there.
While I thought Lesnar looked pretty impressive for the most part, the poster above is right. The headlines tomorrow are going to say former WWE star subbed in a minute and a half. That doesn't help build Lesnar up as a future star. But maybe that's what the UFC wanted...to make a statement: You don't just come into the UFC and win. But why they would pay a guy a big contract to send that message is way, way beyond me. And I'm going to go out on a limb and say if Steve Mazzagotti didn't stop the fight and take a point, Lesnar probably would have won.