Brock the Bully: Former Champion Brock Lesnar Looks for Easier Prey - Bloody Elbow

[monaroCountry]

Brock the Bully: Former Champion Brock Lesnar Looks for Easier Prey - Bloody Elbow

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They say you see the true heart of a champion only after they've been knocked down. After all, how can you gauge how well a man responds to adversity if he's never even been tested? Well, Brock Lesnar has been tested in the Octagon - and found wanting.

Against Shane Carwin he ran across the cage to avoid thunderous blows. Against Cain Velasquez he wasn't even allowed that much dignity, pirouetting and cartwheeling around the Octagon like he was part of a drunken dance recital. You'd expect a true champion and a title contender to be clamoring to get back in the cage with his conqueror. To want to prove he is as good as the hype, to reestablish his place in the pecking order. But there's a question about who Brock Lesnar is at his core.

Simply put, Brock is a bully. When backed into a corner his instinct isn't to take the hard path. It's to find prey he thinks he can conquer - and attack. Bryan Alvarez, editor of the Wrestling Observer's sister newsletter Figure Four Weekly, says Brock isn't looking to rematch Carwin or get a return bout with Velasquez. Instead, Lesnar reportedly has set his sites on Roy Nelson.

Now there's nothing wrong with Roy Nelson. He's a talented fighter, a mid-level heavyweight contender who is most famous for hiding a 205 pound potential champion inside a 265 pound rolly polly package. But isn't it a little odd for a former champion, the UFC's flagship fighter, to be challenging a guy who's best career win was against prospect Brendan Schaub? Nelson isn't a top-shelf contender. He's a guy who has fallen short time and again against the top level competition he's faced, including a recent beating incurred at the hands of heavyweight contender Junior dos Santos.

Contrast Lesnar's approach to the recently vanquished heavyweight kingpin Fedor Emelianenko. Fedor didn't respond to his loss to Fabricio Werdum by challenging Jeff Monson. He asked for a rematch with the man who made him tap:

"Certainly I would like to have a rematch with Fabricio. If he agrees, I would love to do that. The one who doesn't fall doesn't stand up. It happens that I was made kind of an idol. Everybody loses. That happens. I'm a normal human being, as are all of us. If it is God's will, the next fight I'll win."

So why is Lesnar challenging a fighter who isn't in the title hunt? Because he thinks it's easier. He thinks he can roll right over the fat kid - and he's probably right. But even asking for this fight shows plenty about Lesnar and where he is mentally. This isn't the confident move of a fighter on his way back up the ladder. This is the path of the bully, the more favourable route, and the mindset of a fighter still a little shell shocked after consecutive shellackings.

[TJC123]

its true, brock is a punk

[CanadianAssault]

Brocks a pussy for fighting roy nelson roys not even top 10. bet brock gets a title shot after roy 2.

[Jride]

Roy > Mir

Seriously. Brock is getting too much hate

[monaroCountry]

Roy > Mir

Seriously. Brock is getting too much hate

Mir shouldnt even belong in the top 20, that guy cracks like a china thrown at a brick wall.

[Jride]

Roy is a tougher fight for anyone than Frank Mir could ever be.

[Mighty Trust Krusher]

Nelson is getting seriously overlooked

[StillWill]

A potential 205 lb champion in a 265 rolly polly package? What a dumbfuck writer. 205 is way more stacked then HW, no way in hell does big country ever make it to be a top 20 lhw.

EDIT:

Oh and lesnar is a coward pos

[SlimJim]

Roy > Mir

Seriously. Brock is getting too much hate

Mir shouldnt even belong in the top 20, that guy cracks like a china thrown at a brick wall.

Shut up Monaro, don't make "(insert fighter here) doesn't belong in the top 20" comments if you can't back it up with your own list.

[littlebrock]

Looking forward to seeing Brock smash the fat man

[StillWill]

Frank Mirs ranking has to two with two wins, Tim Sylvia forever ago and then Minotauro who was number 2 at the time.

[pride never die]

I remember back at Sherdog they would call this guy MoRonCountry.

[blueyedsamurai]

Looking forward to seeing Brock smash the fat man

roy will win, and didnt u get banned for posting ghey pron? or was that someone else

[littlebrock]

Looking forward to seeing Brock smash the fat man

roy will win, and didnt u get banned for posting ghey pron? or was that someone else

No, I got banned for arguing with Stu.

And I'm always willing to sig/av bet...you down for this fight if it happens?

[R3D]

LOL when Roy Nelson AKA tha fattest piece of shti in MMA outworks and outhustles the "NEW BREED" Brock Lesnar, its going to really shtter that garbage ass myth.

[thearmofbarlow]

This is what SHOULD happen when someone fucking loses a goddamn championship. You just LOST. You have NO claim to the fucking title. Get your ass back down into the trenches, string together some quality wins WITHOUT RUNNING AWAY LIKE A FUCKING CUNG, and then we'll talk about MAYBE giving you another shot.

Lesnar WANTING to fight Nelson rather than whine about an immediate rematch (I am DONE with this rematch horseshit) shows me that maybe, just maybe, he's dropped the pro wrestling heel side and settled into being a mixed martial artist.

Maybe.

Probably not.

But I can't complain about someone LOSING and having to fight their way back up.

[Ronin]

Duckin a loss to Frank Mir, oh well.

[Evilz632MMA]

brock is punk bully. having said that, he will lose to big country

[Plasma]

Brock would smash Mir for a third time and probably make Frank kill himself. Roy isn't an easy fight for anyone, I could see him fighting for the title in the future, he's got tallent.

[JMMA-ALLDAY]

doesnt matter if roy can defend the first 10 secs of takedowns and land 1 shot brock will wilt and turtle up like he always does

you cant teach taking a punch