And then a few more breaks put Tate into the incredible position of being a main-event fighter at UFC 200. The key draw for UFC 200 is the return of Brock Lesnar, the biggest PPV star in the companies history.
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More so than any landmark number, testimony to the growth of UFC can be found in the anticipation of Saturday night’s card despite a tumultuous week leading up to it.
Losses to Cain Velasquez and Overeem showed that he wasn’t invincible, but he was struggling with diverticulitis at the time, which forced him from the sport and back to the friendly confines of the WWE.
“I think it was, like, Day 49 after I left”.
“I can’t disclose. I mean there’s lots of zeroes behind it”, Lesnar said in June. “I feel f–ing awesome (now), why does it matter?”
There will be four prelim fights airing on Fox Sports 1 in the USA beginning at 8 p.m. ET.
Happy with his family in Saskatchewan and healthy for the first time in years, Lesnar is enjoying his training camp like never before. Hunt carries a solid takedown defense, but Lesnar’s striking defense is not that good. Hunt watched all of his biggest blows without so much as raising his voice in excitement, keeping his even-keeled temperament throughout and providing some wonderfully deadpanned commentary along the way.
At UFC 91 he faced and defeated Randy Coture via TKO to be crowned the new UFC heavyweight champion. What Lesnar should be thinking about his returning to UFC and the fight with Mark Hunt tonight.
Lesnar seemed to tire a bit in the frame, finding much less success with his takedowns.
Despite being two perennial main eventers who trained side-by-side during their formative years at onetime WWE developmental territory Ohio Valley Wrestling, The Apex Predator and The Beast Incarnate have only competed against each other once before in a WWE ring. “But it’s fighting and anything can happen”.
Lesnar brought a huge WWE fan base the first time he crossed over to MMA.
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And it turned out to be a smart – and very lucrative – decision.
