p { margin-bottom: 0.21cm; }a:link { } Is wrestling a skill less sport as well? Because, you know, Brock did pretty well at that. http://www.wrestlinghalloffame.org/wrestlers.php?wrestler=2477 Plus, while Ali was greatly diminished when he fought Spinks he was still heavyweight champion of the world. So, **** is a bit of a leap. In fact in his last defence pre Spinks Ali beat Earnie Shavers by unanimous decision over fifteen rounds. That was four and a half months before he lost to Spinks.
1. It was UFC 100 2. GSP was in the co-main and the third bout was the TUF coaches battle 3. Mir was a much bigger then star than Overeem is now 4. People had bought into the Mir/Lesnar feud 5. It was for the title Lesnar did a million buys against opponents just as unknown to the casual audience as Overeem (Carwin was perhaps slightly more known) but thta was a different situation. One of the difficulties will be that its in somewhat of a lameduck period for them being at the very end of the Spike deal - so whilst Spike will hardly do them any favours in promoting the fight, Fox won't be able to step in as much. And of course there's the ongoing issue of how UFC going with Fox effects ESPN's willingness to promote their fights. Lesnar was helped massively by receiving so much coverage of his pre-fight build up for UFC 100, UFC 116 and UFC 121. Will he get the same now?