Comments on: New Sport Idea: Brock Bashing!

By: Curtis

Curtis — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 20:24:44 +0000

So we are saying that Brock Lesnar is like a train wreck…You want to look away but you just can’t….

By: VEe

VEe — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:48:49 +0000

Bill
1. the boxing crowd is definitely hypocritical.
“What could you say?”** Is he aware of how many characters that are and were in boxing?!? The FREAKING promoters are far worse than Dana White.

2. MMA is established, socially acceptable and it is legal. Not legal in some states but legal in many others. It is socially acceptable to hit an opponent over the head with a hockey stick and fight in the middle of an ice rink. Hockey has characters. The NF-freakin-L has more than its share of characters and in some regards, no different than MMA. At the end of the day, corporate co-signs, ESPN, SI, major media coverage indicates that it is definitely socially acceptable. Chuck Liddell on HBO’s and GSP Gatorade = Mainstream.

End note, most of those same people who were appalled at Brock’s post-fight antics will probably watch another Lesnar PPV. They’re also the same a**holes who mess up traffic because they’re slowing down to watch a accident.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:13:56 +0000

i can def see the comparison between him and Tito. Excpet Tito understood the “game” a bit more and was able to get the fans on his side not diss them…

I agree, I actually made comments on his good behavior after the Randy fight, but it is a what have you done for me lately world…

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:31:11 +0000

UFC 100 BUFFER 360

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 16:26:30 +0000

The comparisons to Boxing or any other sport aren’t relevant because those sports are already established and legalized in America. MMA is still fighting to be socially accepted and Brock’s antics are not going to help. As I was at the gym yesterday all people wanted to talk about was Lesnar’s antics. Not GSP’s dominance, not Henderson’s KO, not even Brock’s performance against Mir. And it was mixed, but most were either disgusted by Lesnar (especially the boxing crowd) or were acting like it was the coolest thing ever (guys who only get the PPV’s when Lesnar is on them)! Most of the guys I know who were into MMA were a little upset, but when a guy who is a trainer for boxers said it proved that MMA was nothing but a bunch of “street thugs” and resembled “pro-wrestling” what could I say? I mean I could argue every other fight on the card and cards before, but the lasting impression from UFC 100 is going to be Lesnar at the end of the fight.

By: VEe

VEe — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:07:24 +0000

Ditto! Tito Ortiz was the first sports entertainment fighter in the UFC and that’s why he still holds the record for the highest gate in the UFC at 5.3 million – with Liddell of course.

As long as Brock doesn’t flip off Bud, Dana doesn’t have a problem.

By: Mitch Gunslinger

Mitch Gunslinger — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:07:31 +0000

Honestly Curtis…Brock showed class and professionalism after the Randy fight. I gained respect for him after that fight. Then I lost it all after this last one. With some fans, they will love his antics. Others, Brock has to build his image up again.

I guarantee you he won’t diss the sponsors again. Dana will put the Corporate Bitch Slap submission on him. The other antics…they may or may not happen. What Brock did reminds me of another fighter who did things like that and he was the face of the UFC….Tito Ortiz.

By: curtis

curtis — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:28:07 +0000

Hopefully he actually listens and improves on his post fight behavior…

By: Mitch Gunslinger

Mitch Gunslinger — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 02:04:32 +0000

I think Brock just got caught up in the moment and his “pro wrestler” personna came out. He apologized after Dana White verbally raped him. Brock knows whos the boss.

By: VEe

VEe — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 01:50:17 +0000

Brock actions are not new in MMA or combat sports. Brock is not Rich Franklin or Randy Couture. War Machine got kicked out of the UFC for statements made OUTSIDE of the cage. We’re talking about people who fight for sport, or for a living. I believe Bloody Elbow has a decent article concerning the history of theatrics in combat sports. Muhammad Ali could have acted like Joe Louis but he was more like Jack Johnson. Although tennis is far from a combat sport, John McEnroe was one of the most colorful characters. He was frown upon, but he did sell tickets.

Brock will probably not continue to diss corporate sponsors, but the fans that he was flipping off are the same fans that are quick booo foreign fighters, booo jiu-jitsu practitioners for their lack of stand-up action, scream just bleed or paint it on their skin, booo a fighter because he KO’ed their favorite fighter, etc.
I say all that to say, those same fans that boooooooed Brock Lesnar will pay to see him smash another fighter AND we probably keep paying to see him get beat up. Not too long ago there was a very incendiary boxer who incited the media and the fans with vulgar interviews, a nasty-selfish-immature-sexist attitude and they loved-hated him for it. And many boxing fans paid money to watch him eventually fall . .. and he fell hard.

But Brock Lesnar is way smarter than Mike Tyson. He knows when how to push the right buttons.