Brock Lesnar's Next "Next" Opponent Named by UFC President Dana White

Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, back on track after his August victory over Randy Couture, will challenge the winner of the November 21 Brock Lesnar-Shane Carwin fight for the heavyweight title.

That's according to Inside Fights, who broke the news on Thursday.

Nogueira (32-5-1), a former PRIDE champion and recent interim UFC title-holder,was dominated by Frank Mir in their December meeting, but “Minotauro” bounced back strong with an impressive performance against Couture, winning by unanimous decision in the “Fight of the Night” at UFC 102.

Lesnar (4-1) is the UFC World Heavyweight Champion.

In an awesome profile written by sports entertainment's resident genius Paul Heyman (who was the Head Writer for Smackdown during Lesnar's hottest term in WWE, as well as his on-air "agent" and then "evil advesary"), Lesnar was described like this:

Brock Lesnar is a professional fighter, and he is quite comfortable accepting the risks associated with his choice of vocation. He's even more comfortable protecting himself from those risks, and doing damage to the opponent before the opponent does damage to him. As a matter of fact, Brock enjoys doing damage. He likes to hurt living creatures.

An enthusiastic hunter and ice fisher, Brock achieves a spiritual orgasm in pursuit of, and completion (let's not say "climax" and "orgasm" in the same sentence) of the kill.

He's not a sweet, kind, gentle man who has decided to feed his family by entering a sweet science, a gentleman's brawl, a civilized competition to determine which man has mastered the Octagon.

He's a vicious, brutal, mean spirited competitor whose obsessive drive with pushing himself past his own
glass ceiling of "this is how high Brock Lesnar can go" (even if he's already number one) creates an atmosphere so intense, most people in their right minds just can't hang with it.

You can read Heyman's amazing blog on Lesnar here: http://heymanhustle.craveonline.com/articles/news/21038-paul-heyman-brock-lesnar-the-ultimate-heel-for-ufc

It really is the definitive examination of the Lesnar psyche.

As for what happens to Lesnar should he lose to Carwin, that has been yet been determined by Ultimate Fight President Dana White, but Lesnar's ability to hype a fight and sell pay per views should keep him in the game as long as he likes.

Can the same be said for Kimbo Slice?