Föredetta tungvikts champen Brock Lesnar tränade en hel del på Xtreme Couture under dom sex veckorna han var i Las Vegas för inspelningen av The Ultimate Fighter 13. Tydligen så har det varit en ’rolig erfarenhet’ för veteranen Jay Hieron, som var en av personerna som fick radas upp för att bli utlåst på löpande band.
The guy is just a whole different animal. It was his first time back to training since the Cain fight and he was just under 300-pounds. It was something different and we never had a beast quite like that at our gym. It mostly consisted of BJJ and wrestling. A lot of rolling. He also helped some of us in the wrestling department. He did some sparring with Randy. You do not realize how strong he is and how fast he is unless you are there training or fighting him. I fight at 170 and I’ll be the first to tell you that he was much faster than I was. It’s shocking actually – the way he was just throwing guys around. Couture had him go through rounds of rolling. One person would step in, roll with Brock for 2 minutes then step out and someone else would go in. Forrest Griffin was there, Vitor was there, I was there, Sefo was there. We had a bunch of guys. He was incredibly strong, we would just go in there and get submitted a couple times and get out. He caught Forrest in the same straight armbar three times in the two minutes they were rolling. The only one he didn’t tap out was Vinny [Magalhaes] but it was more of the same. I don’t think anyone was able to get top position without him giving it up. It was a fun experience.
När Lesnar mötte Cain så hade mexaren – med hjälp av sin brottningsbakgrund – relativt lätt att ställa sig upp, och kunde även stoppa några nedtagningar. Brocks kommande motståndare Junior dos Santos går in som favorit i deras möte, men har tidigare aldrig mött någon som ens är i närheten av Lesnars brottning.
Kommer detta bli en uppercut of doom 2.0 eller kan Brock klänga sig fast kring dos Santos, och göra samma sak som han gjorde mot Xtreme Couture-folket?
