Stupid Bias Regarding Brock Lesnar: What UFC Fans Need to Know!

I was watching UFC 100 last night and saw Brock Lesnar basically dominate one of my favorite fighters in UFC, Frank Mir. The fight was to unify the two Heavyweight Titles, Mir was the Interim Champ and Lesnar was considered the top UFC Champ.

To decide who was really the true champion they had to unify the titles naturally. Lesnar won the fight, yet he still hardly gets credit.

The dude is basically running through the Heavyweight roster in UFC and beat guys such as Mir and Couture along the way. He only has one loss, which was to Mir.

So technically the two are 1-1 against each other, yet who is champion? That would be Lesnar, right?

People basically hate his attitude and what he brings to UFC. If you were not familiar with Lesnar before his UFC career, he was also a former three-time WWE Champion. He came into the WWE about five years ago, but only stayed for two and a half years.

I can't blame him for leaving, he will tell you himself, it is one of the toughest things you can ever do. Wrestling takes a toll on the body and you have to do it for 300 or so days a year.

Lesnar said in an interview that he once had to wrestle three months with three broken ribs because he just became champion.

People need to realize that not everything is fake in wrestling, as a matter of fact mostly all the moves they do in the ring are real.

The submissions are not actually locked in as tight as they seem to be, and punches and kicks are not hit hard on the opponent. But everything else hurts as much as it looks.

The wrestlers train to learn how to do the moves the right way and how to take them so that people don't get hurt, though.

However, wrestling can still take a lot out of you. And even the best athletes still have trouble staying on the up and up.

Lesnar said he basically lived on pain pills and vodka for his entire WWE career.

He was great in the ring and all the fans liked him, and that of course gave him a following to his UFC career.

Many of these fans from the WWE did follow him, and brought their wrestling personality with them. For some reason people think ever since Lesnar arrived in UFC, that the crowd suddenly got dirty by saying "A**hole", "F*** you", or "B****".

Apparently those people have not seen UFC since its existence, because I have heard the same things in UFC before. In fact, many other MMA promotions (There are others besides UFC, I know shocking, right?) have the same language being shouted out.

Lesnar didn't bring this, fans did. Lesnar didn't get on the phone and call all of the fans in attendance to say this. They all did it on their own.

The language you hear from the crowd is by their own choosing, if they want to say it then I believe Amendment 1 gives them that right. While I do not condone people using such language, especially with kids in attendance, they are able to say it.

So don't blame one man over what others do, if you do, then you are a complete idiot. I'm Just Saying.

People also hate what he does in interviews or on the mic before and after matches. Because he was in the WWE in the past, he learned how to work a mic. He can talk, and he has a personality that he shows every time.

He is not getting on there like a heel wrestler (bad guy in wrestling) and saying how stupid the crowd is or calling them names. He may talk about his opponent, but the other fighters do the same thing.

Lesnar just brings out an attitude that UFC fans are not used to. Wrestling fans have seen this for years, so obviously they are used to it.

All Lesnar is doing it trying to bring some entertainment; he is trying to excite the crowd, pump them up for the fight if you will.

It doesn't matter if he wins or loses; he is making people want to watch. Therefore, that results into PPV buys. See, the dude is smarter than people think. He wants people to watch, and the more people that do the more money he and UFC gets.

He will talk about hurting his opponent in interviews and what not. Regardless if he talks about the other fighter's mom, personal life, fighting ability or what have you; he is still getting people's excitement up. That is good, not bad.

Hate him if you want, he could care less. Lesnar is one of those guys who doesn't need approval from fans to go out there and beat the crap out of people.

The dude played a heel in pro-wrestling for a while, where he made the crowd hate him on purpose. He is not bringing pro-wrestling to UFC, so MMA fans don't get your panties in a bunch.

If you have seen the WWE, you know that marketing is one of the things that made is as big as it is today.

Think of this, if they didn't market themselves the way they did, then your mind wouldn't automatically go to the name WWE when you hear the word wrestling. So you can say Vince McMahon knew what he had to do to get the name out there.

UFC has marketed themselves pretty well too, which is why their name comes to mind when you think MMA.

But the crossover between the two is a bit helpful. A wrestler's personality into an MMA world helps the promotion he is fighting for. They can market around that one fighter and his personality.

Action figures can be made, posters can be made, and they can get more interviews on TV which helps the promotion even more.

Wrestling promotions like MMA guys because they can do more with them in the ring. They can put them in hardcore action where we can see more and more extreme action with them.

Also, the fighting skill is there with the MMA Fighter so they bring that into the wrestling ring. It is good technical skill which is a nice throw back to old-style wrestling a lot of wrestling fans liked in the first place.

So the crossover is good for both parties.

Don't think only wrestlers are going over to MMA. We have seen MMA Fighters go over to wrestling many times. People such as Frank Trigg and Ken Shamrock are just two who went over.

While both went back to MMA, they did spend a time in wrestling and had mentioned that they would like to go back one day.

However, Shamrock probably had the most success. Considering he went to the WWE and it marketed him right, along with that he also won a few titles there. He was also a World Champion in TNA, so that helped his wrestling stock out.

But back to Lesnar...

Lesnar is not going to bring predetermined fights to the UFC; MMA is a sport and should always stay that way. Don't worry paranoid MMA fans, UFC will not be putting storylines into its fights or anything.

It is all about business in the end.

This is why Lesnar fought Couture instead of Frank Mir. Mir deserved the fight, as he was in line to face Couture before Lesnar arrived. Heck, he even beat Lesnar.

Yet Mir got the consolation fight, while Lesnar got the real UFC Title fight. Was it fair? Probably not.

However Dana White (UFC President), put Lesnar in the fight with Couture because he knew that by doing this it would result in a ton of PPV buys, which it did as it was the most bought PPV in UFC history.

If we saw Mir in this fight, sure, it would have gotten PPV buys. However, it wouldn't have been near the total that Lesnar helped bring in.

The good thing about Lesnar is that while he may bring some of the wrestling mic style to UFC, he backs up everything he says in the end.

He beat Couture, and even got a bit of revenge on Mir by beating him at UFC 100. He said he would win, and the dude went out there and did it.

He deserves credit where it is due, and people who don't give it to him are probably in need of a brain transplant. You don't have to like him, but you do need to respect how far he has come.

He came in as a guy people thought was some wrestler who couldn't "really" fight. He proved all the doubters wrong, and he keeps improving all the time. He isn't going anywhere anytime soon.

He deserves respect, and I am sure if you don't respect him now, you will when he beats your favorite fighter.