One Step Forward for Brock Lesnar, Three Steps Back for the Evolution of MMA

Love him or hate him, Brock Lesnar is the current UFC heavyweight champion.  His fight at UFC 100 against Frank Mir resembled a fifth grader tackling a second grader during recess and holding him down utilizing his 30-pound weight advantage and punching him in the face until a teacher ran over to break them up. 

Lesnar resembles the kinds of guys in high school you wished would grow up and become a complete fat and bald failure.  He's what marital arts was invented to contend with.  The opposite of the basic principles of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Judo, Karate, and various other arts. 

The UFC pushed him into the spotlight and kept saying he was a NCAA national champion to give him real fight credibility and get fans to forget his cartoonish fake wrestling in the WWF, now known as the WWE, World Wrestling Entertainment. 

While he has beat big names thus far in his five fight MMA career his WWE antics are still a vital part of his personality. 

He flips off MMA fans who don't appreciate his one dimensional style then brags about how great he is and how he's going to celebrate with his WWE diva reject wife later that night. 

The truth is that if gigantic egotistical jocks start to flood MMA's heavyweight divisions the gap between Fedor and everyone else will just continue to get greater and greater.  With Fedor's refusal to bargain with the UFC and Dana White, the UFC's heavyweight division will become a joke.  Every other division in the UFC has a champion who embodies the modern MMA athlete. 

UFC lightweight champion BJ Penn is a Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu World Champion, the first American to ever win a world championship in that sport who can challenge pro boxers with his stand up. 

UFC welterweight champion Georges St. Pierre is a karate master who is one of the best wrestlers in MMA despite the fact that he didn't wrestle in high school or college and he is among the best grapplers in the sport. 

UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva is lethal Maui Thai kick boxer who also holds a Black Belt in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and has choked out two time Olympic wrestler and multiple time Pride world champion Dan Henderson and highly regarded Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu Black Belt Travis Lutter. 

Lyoto Machida, the UFC light heavyweight champion, grew up practicing Karate under the teaching of his Karate Grandmaster father.  As he grew up he competed in various other arts including Sumo and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu.  Now he is an undefeated unorthodox fighter that no fighter has been able solve. 

In fact, he's never been hurt in a pro bout thus far.  He inflicts tremendous amounts of damage, absorbs barely any damage, and uses the least amount of energy possible.  Well, as heavyweights go Fedor is in a league of his own.

Now let's look at the UFC heavyweight champion, he's a strong big wrestler with one goal in mind tackle and pummel.  He's going to charge you get you down hold you there and proceed to punch you with his inhuman XXXL size glove hands. 

If you try to change the game plan he'll just charge harder and not even attempt a change of game plan. What the UFC needs to do now is to find a skilled heavyweight contender who can cancel out Lesnar's only attributes size and strength and take his title. 

With the heavyweight legends now in the twilight of their careers, the UFC best hope might be Shane Carwin.  He is a beast, he's a heavy-handed slugger with one punch knockout power, has a iron chin, and can grapple with the best of them.

Is Shane Carwin UFC's hope for a legitimate division or will Cro Cop have a rebirth and take off Lesnar's head with his famous left high kick and win the title. 

Best scenario, Fedor ventures over to the UFC and humbles Lesnar the way he recently humbled Tim Sylvia and Andre Arlovski.

Another option the UFC can explore is setting up a super heavyweight division. Making the heavyweight division follow the same 20-pound span the other weight divisions use it would be 220 pounds to 240 pounds or even 250 pounds.  The super heavyweight division would 250 plus. 

Japan has had freak show matches for many years now but realized that they were good for entertainment sake and only paired freak show fighters with serious fighters to help push the serious fighters into the spotlight.  Examples are Fedor versus Zulu and Hong Man Choi, and Nogueira versus Bob Sapp. 

Whatever happens one thing is inevitable a fighter will come and knock off Lesnar and prove that size, strength, and a good double leg takedown isn't enough to be a MMA legend in 2009. 

A decade ago Mark Coleman was in the same position being the biggest, strongest wrestler in town and was dominate until the other fighters learned to avoid his take downs and exploit his lack of cardio.  Case and point is the famous clip of Pete Williams kicking a winded Coleman in the face and knocking him out. 

Question is who will be the fighter to make a highlight reel knockout of Lesnar that will be deemed the new "Williams-Coleman" clip.