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[Bran]

its not dana's fault he can't sign great fights like bo cantrell

[CHUCKtheCHAMP]

Originally Posted by Dr. MMA

how the hell did he ruin brock lesnar? If anything, that match was a win-win for both. Brock really dominated Mir and then got caught. People realized Brock was for real and Mir is back in the title scene because of it too.

I thought the way the fight went down was perfect

co-sign

[Severn]

Brock even in defeat had his stock rise. Hell his upside is still very huge and was beating the crap out of Mir until he got caught. Brock looked great against a former world champ and while he's still green he's got monster potential. He can still be a champion in the future. The best case scenrio happend that night. Both Brock and Mir did well. Dana must have had a smile on his face.

This Gary Shaw talk sounds like sour grapes to me.

[Texasboyballin]

EliteXC is a good Org. 2 Watch on T.V, but no way in Hell does he really thank he got better Fighters in the UFC. For him 2 say dat the UFC doesn't have the best fighters in the World is plain stupid. Considering Brock Lesnar wanted 2 go w/the UFC becuz they were the best Fightin Org.

[wonderbee]

Granted Brock didn’t look that bad and he may have impressed the interweb fan but what about the wrestling fans, which was the goal of having Brock fight in the first place. I agree with most of you I was pretty impressed with Brock and if he sticks with it he may be pretty good eventually although are the wrestling fans going to stick around until this happens. On that note I think it would have been better if Brock would have smashed some dude. And what is up with the Gary Shaw hate, compared to what has been coming out of Dana’s mouth lately, Shaw’s comments are not that bad. In fact it seems kind of hypocritical to hate on Shaw for having an opinion on an interweb site where we all share our opinions. And that is just my opinion.

[atj-lucko]

I Agree with Shaw, yes you throw a can at Brock for his first few fights.
You want to progress him slowly the problem is his contract is so big, you can't afford to progress him slowly like a boxer.
The original problem was they signed him for too much money to begin with he's not worth 250k a fight.

Another problem is say Brock signed a 6 fight contract with the UFC for 1.5 Million.
Say he is 3 - 3 after 6 fights what does the UFC do? extend a high contract for a .500 fighter?
His signing will be considered a failure like Cro Cop.

[Quintessential Studmuffin]

Gary Shaw is a fucking idiot.

[Squeako]

Win-win for UFC: draws WWE fan base (huge) and shows MMA to be the real deal. Plus, it would have been a waste of money to put him against a can. I don't think they wanted to risk a GG-CC redeux (put him in with a relatively unknown entity). If he loses to somebody good, it's acceptable. If he beats someone good, they could spin it as seeing huge potential in Lesnar because of his collegiate wrestling experience, not WWE scripting, and he's now a UFC-contracted MMA fighter.

There's no question that bringing Lesnar in was a business decision based upon the creation of new MMA fans, who were familiar with him in WWE.

[Dork8503]

Elite had Robbie and Jake other then that they have alot of average fighters, cans an a few new fighters.

I didnt say Nick Diaz because to me he is just a average fighter.

Oh yeah Gary is a retard.

[da@LARGE]

I'm a fan of Frank MIr and was happy to see him given a high profile fight. But if he fails to beat any other notable opponents, then that's gonna reflect poorly on Brock.