UFC 100: Living Up To Expectations?

The day after the most hyped and promoted MMA sporting event ever in history: UFC 100,  many questions were raised. It seems the most obvious question that comes to mind is whether or not UFC 100 did indeed live up to the hype?

All around Southern California UFC 100 was advertised on billboards and in newspapers.

Every sports bar within a 120 mile radius was showing UFC 100.

I personally went to a chicken wing spot where the waitresses tend to have large breasts and wear white tank tops and orange speedos. Here at this particular eatery they had a hour wait with literally 50 people waiting outside in blazing hot 95 degree weather just to get a seat inside to watch the fights.

I came to my senses and decided to leave this place to go to a friend's house who had ordered the PPV. By the time I got there George St. Pierre was just about to win his fight with Thiago Alves by unanimous decision. 

The main event Brock Lesnar, the supposedly most powerful man in MMA, avenged his only loss on his MMA career of 5 fights. Many hard core UFC fans were hoping that Frank Mir would be able to submit Lesnar again with ease. The media and political side of UFC tended to favor a big Lesnar win.

It was evident by the overwhelming boos that it was a pro Mir crowd. Even after Lesnar defeated Mir the crowd's yelling seemed to get louder and louder. During Lesnar's post fight interview with Joe Rogan Lesnar stuck both middle fingers to the sold out Mandalay Bar crowd to let them know that he did not care to obtain their approval as fans.

Lesnar then went on to even insult the sponsors of UFC 100 by saying he will drink Coors instead of Bud Light since Coors offered him money and Bud Light did not. Brock also insulted his wife by saying he might even get on on top of her.

Is this WWE Stone Cold Steve Austin/Jerry Springer like public persona good or bad for the image and sport of MMA?

What are your thoughts?

The Mandalay Bay had its largest out door closed circuit viewing of UFC 100 on their man made beach pool. This plus the high predictions of Dana White projecting over 1 million PPV buys indicated that UFC is defintely at an all time high in terms of popularity and business.

Again because I only saw UFC 100 from the final rounds of GSP vs Alves onto the main event I think it would not be fair for me to say whether or not UFC 100 lived up to the hype or not. But as I stated earlier there were a hand full UFC fight cards that had bigger match ups and more big names all fighting on one night than UFC 100 did.  

So my question to you is did UFC 100 live up to the hype in your eyes?