Brock Lesnar: Will Fatherhood Have Effect Like It Did Dexter?

After watching Dexter, one of my favorite series on Showtime tonight, I began to wonder how much fatherhood will affect Brock Lesnar and his MMA career.

Of course, maybe it won't be that much of a factor. Brock is a virtual hermit and lives a very private existence, no one may ever know how much into fatherhood he is.

Poor Dexter, if one can empathise with a cold blooded killer, has been changed by having to care for his new baby son. He has lost his focus, as seen during his testimony in court. He is completely sleep deprived, as evidenced by him falling asleep while stalking his foe late at night. Even killing just was not as much fun as in the past.

Of course the climax came when he apparently fell asleep at the wheel and rolled his car on the way home with medicine for Harrison's earache.

Now, I am not expecting as noticeable change in Brock as that seen in poor Dexter, but will there be any change at all?

Matt Serra rejoiced that his wife was breastfeeding their daughter, which meant that his presence during night time feedings was not mandatory. While he was training for his fight with Matt Hughes, I am sure he really appreciated this.

I am not sure how the Lesnar baby is being fed, or if he gets involved in the nighttime diaper changing routines, so perhaps he is not at all sleep deprived; but as a person who has suffered from extreme sleep deprivation for a variety of reasons, I can assure my readers that it is a real b*tch of a bad situation to experience.

Training in itself is no picnic, but with an unpredictable little new guy in the house, I am sure it can be a challenge for even the strongest of men.

With Brock's wife having also been a fighter of sorts, perhaps they have devised a successful "tag-team" approach to handling the new baby.

If they have been very lucky and their little one is colic free and laid back, perhaps they are all sleeping through the night at this point. We were never that lucky, but did have a tag-team to tackle the chores and did manage to survive.

Shane Carwin most definitely does not have a similar situation, so I assume he will be well rested by the time of their match. Lucky man. To have the days of baby diapers and post feeding burp-ups, which look and smell so gross on tee shirts of any color, is quite a relief for a parent.

It is my opinion that parenthood can only make people stronger, but that is me looking back on something that was very difficult at the time I was living it.

I will be looking forward to the Carwin-Lesnar fight to see if any detectable changes have occurred.

Even if the only change is a more mature attitude in addressing the audience after the finish of the fight, I will be happy.

In the meantime, where is Benny?