Grizzled mixed martial arts veteran Heath Herring (28-13) has agreed to take on Brock Lesnar (1-1) — a relative newcomer to the sport — at UFC 87: “Seek and Destroy” at the Target Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on August 9.
Herring replaces recent UFC Hall of Fame inductee, Mark Coleman, who had to withdraw from the heavyweight bout with Lesnar because a knee injury sustained while training.
“The Texas Crazy Horse” most recently defeated Cheick Kongo at UFC 82: “Pride of a Champion” back in March. He has two losses inside the Octagon, including a defeat to the current UFC Heavyweight Champion, Antonio Rodrigo “Minotauro” Nogueria — a fight he was seconds away from winning if he had put more pressure on the Brazilian when he had him hurt.
Herring has been fighting since 1997 and has been in against some of the best in the business such as Nogueira, Fedor Emelianenko, Mirko Cro Cop, Vitor Belfort, Mark Kerr, Igor Vovchanchyn, Enson Inoue and others.
Put simply, he’s been tested.
Lesnar, on the other hand, has not. He’s a genetic freak of nature who has amazing wrestling skills, trying to make the transition from the WWE to the UFC. And he looked solid in his Octagon debut against former heavyweight champion Frank Mir at UFC 81: “Breaking Point” back in February … for about 90 seconds.
He was punishing Mir, but then got caught in a fight-ending submission (kneebar).
UFC President Dana White was apparently not kidding when he mentioned that Lesnar was going to be thrown in the deep end. It’s time to sink or swim.
One positive for Lesnar is that Herring has terrible takedown defense. He could not stop a shot in his fight with Jake O’Brien and Kongo even seemingly took him to the floor at will. Lesnar has more wrestling ability in his left thumb than O’Brien and Kongo put together.
And being underneath the massive Lesnar, eating punches and elbows, is not a cool place to be. Just ask Frank Mir.
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Hm… I like it. I think Herring has the edge, based on experience and skill, but this should be a good scrap.
I called this yesterday…predicted it!!
Thats not a completely horrible replacement…i guess
As long as herring weathers the initial storm and practices his BJJ, his experience will win him this fight…show Brock the path back to WWE!!
Hate to say it kevin, but ‘ol crazy horse is gonna get broken! 1st round KO Lesnar!
Yep, can’t put it any better than that. Herring is gonna be destroyed!!
Herring won’t get destroyed as fast as coleman would have.
Alot of us speculated (or hoped for this) and here we go. This is better than the original match-up. This PPV is already as good as most cards with three solid fights. And they haven’t even filled out the rest of the card yet.
TOTALLY agrre bro…really liking the look of this card.
I think this fight will be a tougher test for Brock, not that I don’t think Coleman has the skills, he’s just had his day IMO.
This is definatley a much harder fight for Lesner. I am very surprised that Dana is putting him up against Hearing so early in his mma career. Hearing has over 40 mma fights and he has faced the best many times. The bad news for Brock is that Hearing seemed to grow up a lot as an mma fighter in his last fight against Kongo….That was the best shape I have ever seen him in a fight. This is bad news for Brock….Hearing is very well versed in submissions. Brock cant go all wild when he gets on top of Heath like he was against Mir, because if he isnt more discaplined with his ground n pound attack, Brock will just get caught in a submission again because Heath is more then capale of pulling it off.
Cant wait to see what the odds on this fight will be.
One thing we can say about Brock, is he is definetly not taking the Kimbo appraoch…..He is going out and fighting some top guys very early in his career, and I have to respect that. Will it be too much too soon?
John-
Did you post in another thread that Mac Danzig and Clay Guida were gonna be added to this card also? This is gonna be an awesome event.
I don’t really like this idea. I mean, I am really looking forward to the fight, its a much better matchup than old Coleman, but Heath is too well rounded and has waaaaaay too much experience for Brock, that is if he can stop a takedown. Remember the Jake O’Brien fight? Heath will NEED to work on his submissions because when this fight comes, he will be put on his back, fast.
Brock should have really been matched up with a complete can. Bisping gets Tupperware in his 18th pro fight, and like his 5th in the UFC. Brock is in his 3rd fight and he gets Heath Herring.
I like Herring myself, but experience does not always mean good. Herring is a classic underachiever. First thing Herring will not stop Lesnar from taking him down. I really don’t see too many if anyone able to stop it from happening. I don’t see Lesnar getting baited into fighting Herrings fight and staying on his feet he has too much riding on this fight not wanting to have another loss. Herring needs to go for the fences early and I mean at the opening bell. That might make Lesnar hesitate, but for all these people saying all Herring has to do is withstand the first 3 minutes and wait for Lesnar to get winded…. please stop. The man may have sold out to the WWE, but knows how to train from his wrestling experience. He will be able to go 15 minutes. I did like how Herring looked during the Kongo match, but he really needs to be practicing his submission from his back because that is were he is going to be. Mental note for Herring.. If you get Lesnar in a triangle, and it is very possible, remember to grab and pull his ankle as he tries to get up otherwise he is going to slam you through the mat. I know Lesnar is off the vitamins he was on in the WWE, but I could not believe how little he made Mir look at 245 when he was tossing him around the cage. Should be a great fight.
yep,good matchup 4 Brock,KTFO less than a 1 min ROUND 1
Less that 1 Minute???
Wow…Wrong!
lol ok buddy, I got herring showing Brock back to the WWE!! As long as he weathers the initial flurry (like MIR) he wins easily. He’s fought the best, and his experience will prevail
Lol! Um would you like to retract that statement?
fedor (number one pound for pound fighter in the world) couldnt beat him in a minute how will brock do it with his total lack of expiernce against one of the games most experienced
Interesting approach… I would have to agree. Just not with the greatest pound for pound anymore but at the time Heath fought him he was still at the top of his game. Fedor is a fuckin machine and so is Brock. Brock just doesn’t have the experience like Fedor. I see it being a good fight but I think Heering will underestimate Brock’s power. Heering will be in better shape like his last fight against Kongo but I also see Heering thinking he can handle Brock’s strength and explosion. I respect it so much that Brock is truly willing to fight who ever Dana throws in front of him and doesn’t want some preferential treatment. It also might be his end as well.
Herring needs to take the Mirr approach. After he gets whipped to the ground, and he will early, he needs to turn his head as much as he can as to get the ref to stand them up for Brock hitting in the back of the head. That was complete B.S. As for Herring underestimating the take down power of Lesnar I think that is off. He may act like it but I am sure Herring watched Mirr get tossed like a rag doll and realizes that is going to be his reality. I think with his experience he will be looking towards a submission and whether he wants to be or not will accept that he will be on the ground with Lesnar. From there it could go either way. I think too many people on here are not giving Lesnar enough credit for his cardio saying that Herring needs to make it through the initial assault then he will be fine. Mirr made it through the initial with some help from the ref for standing them up, and the ref allowing him to be punished on his back taking a pounding without covering or answering for 15 to 20 seconds straight, but I dont think Lesnar got tired I think he has a wrestling background and didnt want point deductions for hitting in the back of the head and got tenative. It looked to me he had a full tank of gas left just changed his approach to avoid getting deductions. This led to the very impressive knee bar, that in my mind would of never happened without the refs standing them up due to the back of the head strike that normally gets a verbal warning.
Herring needs to be slick and fast and use the initial takedown against Lesnar. He should look to grab and arm early while going down and should not try to stand with Lesnar as this will either lead to a KO for him or set him up to be taken down in a fashion that he cannot control.
It should be a good fight I think it may be a little too tough of a test for Lesnar this early in his career. However you got to love that the UFC isn’t going to give the guy can after can. A lesson that Gary Shaw and Kimbo should learn.
Why hate on Kimbo??!! IMO he’s better than Brock[and just as wild]
Better than Brock, why? Wrestling is the most important skill in MMA. Look at Brocks competiton, former champ Mir, now Herring whos coming off a win with Congo. Compare that to Kimbos competion, cans and incase you didnt read it right (cans)
That is an insult to all the cans out there, saying Kimbo’s competition have been cans.
Are you trying to be a comedian? Brock would put Kimbo on his back and Kimbo would be in a whole world of shit and not have a clue how to handle Brock. Absolutly insane to think Kimbo could do anything but smile and give Brock a big gold target to smash in.
WOW! It aint easy bein Brock Lesnar! He’s getting matched up with all these guys with a ton of experience. Although, this could be good! Sweet!
I think this matchup has the same appeal as those clips where we know beforehand that some guy will accidently hurt himself really bad. The question is just who will run into the other’s fist first and how awkward will the KO look.
On a sidenote: why does Dana think its good to bring a former WWE guy into the octagon, but Kimbo is the worst thing that happened to MMA since .. well .. Dana bought Pride!?
Because Brock came from a professional background and was a serious athlete before he came into MMA, Kimbo is becoming an athlete whilst in MMA, and I don’t think that Dana ia making as much fuss over Brock as Shaw is over Kimbo, but then Dana has more toys to play with in that respect. Yet they both bring new crowds into MMA so from that perspective they’re both money machines.
…So i think Dana beleives Kimbo gives MMA a bad name because of those parking lot fights..It’s like saying anyone who likes a bit of scrap can do MMA, which is rubbish as we know…
I personally have no problem with Kimbo…I’d rather see him in a cage than a parking lot, regardless of potential..
No, Kimbo is a guy who filmed his scraps and then put them on the internet. That’s distinctly different than being a guy who likes a bit of a scrap.
That’s like saying a guy who puts private pictures of a girlfriend online is the same as a guy who keeps them to himself. It’s not the same at all.
IMO Brock would absolutely kill KImbo.
agree to disagree…
you’re out of your mind if you think Kimbo could beat Brock. I’m not saying Brock would kill him. But he would definitely Sean Sherk the shit out of him for 3 rounds and win an easy decision.
be thankful. if not for dana buying pride. dse wouldnt have been able to start up dream. 60-70 mil is apretty good start. and thats 2 top ten fighters in a row for brock w/ mir and herring so you can at least say dana’s not feeding him cans. cant say the same for kimbo. not a knock on kimbo, just reality.
Dana is a hipocrite thats why. THe only difference between what Kimbo is doing and what Brock is doing is that Brock is being fed to the wolves and Kimbo is slowly working his way up from the bottom. We bash Gary Shaw and Kimbo, but Honestly they may be doing the right thing and Dana maybe wrong. But they are both 2 novice fighter being marketed as if they were Chuck Liddell or Fedor, its an insult to fans intelligent.
Brock couuld easily have 2 losses in a row after he faces Hearing, which will start to taint Brock, the UFC milliondollar investment….I respect Brock for taking those fights against Hearing and Mir but this just may be a terrible idea on the part of Dana. We will find out within the next year or so.
thats a hell of a big difference! i agree that dana would love to have kimbo, but i can guarntee you he would be fighting alot tougher guys than he has been. maybee not top 10 guys but real mma fighters. saying one way is right and the other is wrong is just tthe perception of what the indvidual thinks is the right or the wrong way to do things. i think dana is doing the right thing and shaw is doing what is best for shaw.
B.W: I agree with everything you are saying, but you
have to take into consideration that Kimbo is one of
EliteXC’s biggest draw, if not the biggest. So gary shaw cant afford to match Kimbo up against top fighters like the UFC is doing with lesnar because If Kimbo starts loosing fights, EliteXC will loose there biggest draw, and the primary goal for EliteXc is to survive. Its no big deal if Lesner becomes a bust by loosing a bunch of fights in ROW BECAUSE they got a million of other stars that the UFC can survive with
EliteXc does not have that luxury.
well said. and secretly im kinda rooting for kimbo to do well. no matter what happens to kimbo in his mma life hes gonna be a millionaire and will be laughing all the way to the bank. not bad for a “street fighter”
Lesnar did exist before WWE. His amateur background and credentials are BETTER than anyone else’s in the UFC.
not really look at hidehiko yoshida (fighter in pride if you dont know)an olympic judo gold medalist. i think that beats lesnars amateur wrestling credentials
The truth is…everyone has to start somewhere. Brock joined the UFC because he wanted “real” competitive test. Kimbo just fights for the money (not that there’s nothing wrong with that). I see Brock going a lot further because matchups against UFC fighters of that caliber would only force him to learn & adapt quickly…make him an all around better fighter. Kimbo has a whole lot to learn & would lose in a heartbeat to any serious mma fighter with experience…just as Brock did to Mir. Spoon feeding Kimbo is both helping & hurting him. He should’ve lost that fight with Thompson after being rained on by elbows with no intelligent defense…but then won for busting that nugget on Thompson’s ear. Given that he’s Elite XC money maker, thay can’t afford to put him on a losing streak. Bottom line is… as Lesner’s skill broadens & develops, IMO, he’s going to be a dominant force in the heavyweight division. Kimbo has the potential if he does the same and fights more challenging opponents…or else, how would he learn from his mistakes.
The differance between Kimbo and Brock is that Brock was an NCAA wrestling champion. He is a legitimate athlete. Kimbo is just some old fool from the ghetto who beat up a few chumps in a parking lot. Saying they are the same is like saying Meadowlark Lemon and Larry Bird were the same.
WOW! I throughly enjoy this match-up. You have your normal striker vs. wrestler match, buet yet herring can wrestle as well, and he has some set of submissions.
This is the best money match they could make with Lesnar. If Herring wins, I think he gets the next title shot.
i agree! herring looked muched improved in his last fight w/kongo and admitted in his countdown segment that that fight was the 1rst time using a nutritionist and taking it seriuosly. whould thunk it. lesnar knocked mir down so this might start out as a brawl but will most likely will end up on the ground and brock wont have to worry so much about submissions. a win over herring would def show that lesnar is for real and if herring wins he might very well indeed get a title shot. he almost koed big nog the 1rst time in the octagon.
If he’s not careful, Brock Lesnars name is going to destroy him before he even gets the chance to get a foothold in any ranking.
Hard to say, there are people who look good losing, and he may be one. That fighter looking for that last piece of the puzzle to make him complete and a force.
He could end up that guy, but he will need some wins eventually or he will just be a wiping boy like Cro Cop nearly did.
Gotta love joe silva….this guy really knows how to make fights……………….
Lesnar by first round smashing..
couldnt agree more id say lesnar will destroy heath
unless the cards in england
I hope Lesnar wins by 1st round smothering.
I like this fight a lot more than with Coleman. So i’m excited to see what can be done by Lesnar here. I think he wins this.
who do you guys respect herring so much?
It is true that he fought everybody in Pride, but he has always lost. Kongo would have destroyed him in a kickboxing bout, but unfortunately for him his camp implemented the same plan Randy Couture would use..
not really he has wins over some big opponents and was the champion and hes only 29 so just think of all the time he has ahead of him
Shouldnt Lesner be fighting Kongo since they both lost? Herring won his last fight and hes fighting someone who lost?
kongo is signed to fight dan evenson on the same night. so that might be a little hard to pull off. im not saying that makes it right or wrong, just a fact.
It should be Herring-Mir for #1 contender spot, Lesner-Kongo just for shiggles
Mir is the #1 contender…
as long as Heath doesn’t do what he did in his first UFC fight against Jake, he’ll win. It’s very hard to stop Heath on the ground.
No offense but I think you have it backwards sbud. If this fight goes to the ground BL will dominate HH. BL’s wrestling is phenom level while HH is just average on the ground. To win this HH will need to avoid the takedown and try and strike from outside.
I do agree with Borocker in one way. HH should want nothing to do with going to the ground. I do not think BL will be as easy to catch as he was against Mirr. Not to mention if the ref would of done his job BL probably would of won that fight as Mirr was taking a pounding before the ref saved him. I really think that they wanted to have Mirr go for the title and gave him some extra help in that match up. If you look at the fight all the way up to the submission BL was mauling him to the point were I was suprised it was not stopped. Back on point if it does go to the ground it will be with HH on his back.
Now were I disagree with Borocker is that I do not think HH will be able to avoid the takedown. That is his best bet, but BL not only has the size and strength advantage he is much quicker on his feet and with his takedowns than HH will be able to handle. Hand speed not so much, but I do not think BL will wait to get hit. He is going to go with were he feels comfortable and that is the mat.
It is a lot more interesting of a fight.
Colman should go down to LHW…
I see them giving Coleman some jobber
if he stays at HW…
This is a real good matchup. I was hopin they’d fill the spot with Herring. Lesnar is gonna have to earn his first victory.
And this card is easily shaping up to be the best of the year. GSP vs Fitch is a great fight. And Florian vs Huerta should be a great fight as well.
I like the high profile replacement, but I have to go against the grain and say it’s a bad matchup…for Herring. With the strength and size advantage Lesnar enjoys, and with the weak…really weak take down defense of Herring, I’m giving this one to Lesnar via brutal GnP.
Either way though, I really, really like this fight. Way better then the original. Good job UFC.
They really are testing Lesnar.
Hearing clearly has the advantage in this one. Brock better come ready unless he wants to ‘L’s’ in a row.
Herring is really one of the few fighters who really means it when he says, “I’ll fight anyone, anytime.” He’s got balls that’s for sure. I don’t like his chances in this fight however. I’m rooting for him though and hopefully his own style of Texas Jiu Jitsu will lead him to victory!
This is going to be a much better and more entertaining fight then Lesnar vs. Coleman. Herring swears his career has been renewed and he has more passion, guess we will get to see it. CMF has what it takes to put on a show, and prolly win this fight.
Hell yea i said it first on the post when coleman got injured! I hope heath can pull this off, i know hes a tough guy but lesner is a beast! Im hoing he can avoid the takedowns and keep it standing. If he can im sure hell win the fight an destroy all the lesner hype! lesners good but needs alot more experience!
This makes tons of sense. It’s pretty much win-win. Lesnar could lose to Herring because of his experience, and herring could lose to Lesnar because he’s way bigger and more powerful. I didn’t catch the Kongo fight, but I watched Heath fight Fedor, and I wouldn’t wish the whooping Heath took that night on my worst enemy. Fedor, at the time was relatively unknown and sort of an underdog.
This is good news!
Herring .vs. Lesnar is a better fight then the Coleman fight.
This fight might end the same way as Brocks first fight, if he goes ape-shit agian, and gets over-excieted..
if heath can avoid the takedowns he’ll be fine.but then again frank mir couldnt and we all know he’s one hell of a jui juitsu guy, brock wins by brutal gnp he’s looking for redemption and heath is gonna get hit by a big white train.. i do like heath and hope he does better and loved the kongo fight but bro learn to say no =[ this could hurt you badly
Yeah, Lesnar is one helluva wrestler. He’s just gonna muscle his way through the Texas Crazy Horse!!
a big difference between brock and kimbo could be 1 big ten wrestling titles,and a national title,and 2nd place at nationals in division1.. not just a few street fights anyone who compares the 2 is a total fucking moron on more levels than gary shaw
i got lesnar by tko 1st rd over herring what a sucky fight and im predicting penn vs gsp in dec what a fight that will be anyone agree
i would give lesnar the edge, but herring isnt intimidated by size like the kongo match so this one might actually go 2 or 3 rounds in a war. i like this better than the original match but would of like to see kongo vs lesnar cos he coming off loss
this fight has all the makings to be a great match up!!! i have herring by split decision. the gsp v finch fight may go 5 rounds aswell. cant see gsp stoppin finch, may do enough to sway the judges tho.
Ei dude, it’s “Fitch”, not “finch”…
Yeah, my last names Fitch as well..annoying when people say Finch… >:O
Im going with Lesnar; Herring sucked against that ‘Jake’ guy so im not rly impressed by him. Lesnar on the other hand will want to destroy him after the ‘Mir incident’.
Lesnar 1st round TKO.
UFC newcomer Shane Carwin would put Kimbo to sleep in less than one minute but still…I’d like to see the “Slice” in the UFC.
well said…
Agreed, I’d like to see Kimbo in the UFC just to watch him get DESTROYED! EliteXC is like AA baseball. For men anyways, the women they got are as good are just as good if not better than other orgs that allow women to fight.
Slice woudl get DESTROYED by most of the UFC heavyweight roster. Elite should of never made his last fight the main even and more so they should of actually told the ref to call it the right way. 45 seconds of unanswered head shots and then a tko with the other guy still standing…..pathetic. Anyone comparing slice to lesnar really needs to get a grip.
Unless they put Lesnar against another big heavyweight wreslter. All of this fights, win or lose will be over in the early goings of the first round.
This is too dangerous if they want to build Brock up. Look at what Herring has done in his last two fights. He dropped Nog in round 1 with a head kick (albeit he eventually lost) then got into better shape came back and dropped an experienced kickboxer in Kongo.
If Herring comes out with that aggression again he could drop Brock seconds in. The fact that Heath is training with Rob Kaman is bad news for Brock if it stays on the feet. He has to either g’n'p with a less reckless abandon or l’n'p to beat Herring.
I didnt read all the other posts so if anyone else wrotw this i apologize…
If Jake Obrien had Herring on his back for 15 minutes i think Lesnar is gonna do the same.
I’m pretty sure that Brock will have his hands full in this one. At least they didn’t book him 3 months after his last fight. He has had more time to train. I hope he wins this but I’m not sure. We all know he would have smashed coleman but I dunno about herring.
Lesnar 2nd round guillotine choke.
yeah mate! cos lesnar is a ji-jitsu black black lol
Kimbo isnt either but he made someone tap lol…
I’ll be supporting Lesnar all the way!
braveheart not knowing what he is talking about. Most wrestlers use chokes to end their fights if they do not gnp them. Normally rear naked choke which I can see Lesnar winning by in this one. Herring turning to avoid the constant gnp that he will be experiencing and lesnar chocking the crap out of him. Wrestlers normally stay away from joint locks but choke holds all the way bro.
I think they should have ut him in with Kongo first. Herring is going to be tougher than Mir. He will definately connect with his strikes, and then we will see if Lesner can take it as well as dish it out. A difficult fight for Lesner.
Agreed! I am looking forward to seeing if Lesnar can take a punch because if he can and if he can exchange with Heath because if he can do both of those… LOOK OUT!
Brock Lesnar will dump Heath Herring on his head, and he’s not going to know where the hell he’s at, and Brock will shuve his fists down herrings throat. Lesnar 1st round KO
Wow they are putting Brock up against some competition. Heath Herring has some mad experience. Let’s see how Brock can do against the Crazy Horse!!!!
Lesnar by K.O in 1st Round.
Im gona go with lesnar on this one. I think he had the fight on mirr if the ref hadnt called the punch back to the head (which mirr did turn into.) You cant deny he looked good. And on his debut he over welmed his opponent. And lesnar definatly looks better than kimbo, lesnar is a top of the line wrestler. Herring i thought could of looked average against kongo, and on Nogueria, well anyone can knock that man down, his stand up is terrible. tim slothiac sylvia knocked down Nogueria. Against kongo there were places that herring could of gotten submissions but didnt, and kongo was winning until the end where herring flipped him. And his ground game looks TERRIBLE to kongo who has never been thought of a wrestler. Now u take the best wrestler (not including randy) in the HW class and put him with a guy who gets taken by a wrestling newbie, u get some serious ground and pounding. I think lesnar should be fine for submissions. Lesnar TKO second round. He needs a round to tire herring out.
Lesnar’s chin has yet to be tested; I can’t see him being better than average in the striking department due to his size, but he may turn out to be one of those guys who can shrug off a head kick.
herring isnt gonna be able to stop lesnars takedowns or gnp. i dont see him pulling off a submission either, he’s no mir. i think lesnar will take him down and pound him out first or second round…. and whats this about kimbo? the guys not even worth mentioning, let alone comparing him to lesnar
wow i love all the posts here ..i am a big fan of Brock i think he is an amazing athletebut ..lets break it down and to me it is simple look at frank mir well brock domanited the fight no excuses he got the shot end but if u think he took time off and has not been training and learning from his 1 mistake he made ur crazy this guy hes about to fight has fought wthe lots of names and he has experence no dought but he has never been in there with a brock lesnar and this fight will not got past the first round being that herring teally is not good on his back to me and lesnar will get him on his back..now i would like to see more stand up and to see how well his stand up punch game is but expect more effective ground and pund and ref to stop this one quick …..i really wanna see brock next fight take on kimbo to me i cant stand kimbo and if kimbo want to prove him self and stop taking lesser or past prime oppents then i wanna see kimbo fight lesnar kimbo had sm nice fights on u tube but hes way to over rated and now were wating for him to get tested so i hope brock calls his bluff
I hate both these guys. Heath is overrated and Brock is all talk.
However, even though Brock tapped to Mir - you HAVE to give Brock some props. It was his second fight ever and he quite well (although he tapped early).
I want Brock to win because he is good for the sport. He is attracting a lot of WWE fans and I bet some casual fans as well.
GO BROCK!
look this is mad alot of talk about who gonna hammer who fact is either of these guys could knock the other out but any one who thinks brock is a walk over is a FOOL did you see the video of him running up a 3 mile hill with a quarter ton pole on one shoulder he will last 15 mins and wont slow down till his knuckles break the way i see it,it will take a lucky punch or more bad submission defence to beat lesnar and he didn get as good as he did at wrestling by not learning quick eventually he will sit atop the rankings unchallenged fact!!!!!!
my verdict on this match lesner to win by breaking the cage to pieces sorry heath im actually a big fan but your called the CRAZYhorse for a reason i even think lesnar could start making people tap f-5 all the way lesnar
I agree and go a little further. BL did loose his last fight, but everyone who thinks that means herring will walk over him needs to watch the Mirr fight a few more times. I just got done watching it agian and cannot believe that Mirr won. It should of been stopped when Mirr was taking his pounding but instead the ref stands them up. Herring is going to get thrown around like a rag doll. He is no Mirr on submissions and he will not be standing long enough to use his strikes.
who cares about Brock almost winning he lost this mmma iether you win or lose brock is all muscle but technique my prediction he will do good in the first round but the other 2 will go to hearring by 2 or 3 tko people get relistic please.
I wached the mir fight agian, and after they were stood up, brock hit mir in the chin while standiing, and mir would have been dropped, but lesnar followed the punch with a takedown. If u watch lesnars training youll nootice hes looking a lot better. His wrestling already is amongst the best in the heavyweight class, no doubt. But i was watching his stand up and its looking better (he still sould jusp gnp herring.) i think lesnar in a a year or two could even be a good run for fedor.
i think brock lesner is gonna lose, he cant fight. he sucks
i think that brock lesnar is gonna win because he can take control of heath herring and he can run up to heath and punck him in the face and then run over by him and ground and pound and put herring in the triangle or the rear naked choke.