Former fake face-puncher Brock Lesnar, put the hurt on for real this past weekend at UFC 91 in Sin City. The 31 year-old ex-King of The WWE Ring took on and took out UFC legend Randy “Haute” Couture, fourteen years his senior, to be crowned (or belted) the Heavyweight Champion of the Ultimate Fighting world.
The latest grappling guru, who retired from scripted violence in 2004 to try out for the NFL only to learn that he couldn’t tackle people without his shirt on, needed only two rounds to dispose of his formidable opponent via a TKO. By all indications the new champ captured the title without resorting to the use of a foreign object or “the camel clutch.” He did, however, take advantage of his mixed martial arts training to administer a steady diet of fists and knees to his opponent’s face.
Lesnar’s ascension to the throne of ultra-violence comes just nine months after his debut match, a loss to Frank Mir at UFC 81. His short brawling career could quickly come full circle as his next opponent will be the winner of the Frank Mir-Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira fight at UFC 92 in December. That puts his likely title defense some time in the first half of 2009, leaving him an ample amount of weeks to practice hitting things and people.
