History Made at UFC 91

Last night at UFC 91 in Las Vegas, history was made when Brock Lesnar defeated the Randy Couture for the UFC Heavyweight title. This makes Lesnar the first man to hold the WWE Title and UFC Heavyweight Title. However I have to give two guys credit before I really start praising Lesnar. I really think that Dan Severn and Ken Shamrock proved about 10 years ago that you can be successful at both pro wrestling and MMA even though they are two different the Beasts. Although Lesnar is the first to hold both WWE Heavyweight and UFC Heavyweight Titles he is not the first man to hold an MMA title and a pro wrestling title. Ken Shamrock held won a UFC title, and also has won the WWE Intercontinental Championship, the WWE Tag Titles, and the NWA Heavyweight Title. Then you have Dan Severn, a man I have met and have great respect for. He has won a UFC Title, and won the NWA Heavyweight Title in wrestling. Unfortunately the NWA is not as big is use to be so both wins really went unnoticed by people. However I believe Lesnar is the first to make the transition from pro wrestling to MMA while Shamrock and Severn went from MMA to pro wrestling.

Now back to Lesnar, I love he didn’t let the crowd get to him in this fight. Couture was definitely the fan favorite. I do have a lot of respect for Randy Couture and loved his fights with Chuck Liddell but it was Lesanrs night. The wonderful thing about Lesnar winning is now hopefully all the anti-pro wrestling fans that love UFC will now have to eat their words. I was in about 10 different chatrooms last night while this fight was going on. I heard a lot of things that just ticked me off. Let me give you some statements:

“The only reason most people are watching this fight is because the stupid wrestling fans are watching Brock Lesnar and they don’t know anyone else.”

“Wrestling doesn’t take any bit of talent, and all pro wrestlers are not talented.”

First off, I was watching UFC long before Brock Lesnar was there. I have old tapes from when Severn won his first UFC tournament, and the matches he had with Ken Shamrock. I also watched UFC Ultimate Fighter 1 everytime it was on. The thing that got me hooked was the Stephan Bonner and Forrest Griffin fight that really to me was the greatest fight ever in my opinion other then watching Severn maul through everyone at Return of the Beast. I’ve seen a few other good fights in my time like Griffin and Rampage Jackson and like I mentioned before Liddell and Coutures fights.

Now to say that pro wrestlers aren’t talented really bothers me. Sure, it’s not a legit sport and I am sure no one will consider it to be, but you just can’t be any average person and climb in to a wrestling ring in think you’re going to do whatever. Pro wrestling has a lot of physicality to it and people get injured all the time. Some of these guys have come back from major injuries like Kurt Angle, Triple H, John Cena and even Shawn Michaels. There are injuries in pro wrestling like any other sports and you have to keep your self in shape just like in every sport. I am passionate about pro wrestling, but I would never knock the UFC because it’s just as awesome as pro wrestling to me. I just think it’s ridiculious that MMA fans knock pro wrestling because they think it’s all “fake.” Well to those ignorant fans, a pro wrestler just came in took out two credible and respected fighters, and one of them is considered a legend. I am not rubbing it in, I am saying it’s fact. Brock Lesnar has trained very hard to get to where he is and I know he is going to be a great champion.

In closing, I would like to congratulate Brock Lesnar on his win last night, and that I cannot wait until the fight to see who his next in-line to fight between Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Frank Mir at UFC 92. It should also be noted that Forrest Griffin will defend his UFC Light-Heavyweight Title against Rashad Evans, and Wanderlei Silva takes on Quinton “Rampage” Jackson. It’s all on the same card on December 27th on PPV. It’s going to be great. Again congrats to Brock Lesnar on becoming the new UFC Heavyweight Champion