Brock Lesnar Post Fight Interview After Beating Mir in the UFC 100 WWE Heavyweight Championship
“Nobody likes to lose, and I’m a sore loser, especially when I feel I gave the (first) fight to him. I just think it’s pure competition,” he said. “Throughout my wrestling career in college, I didn’t lose too often. But the guys I did lose to, I’ve always been able to come back except for one guy I never had the opportunity to get a rematch with – Stephen Neal. But the other guys I’ve had opportunities to come back and beat, so I’ve been in this position and I don’t see it going any other way really.”
“I think I’ve showed some maturity in the Octagon since the first Mir fight,” he agreed. “Against Heath and Randy I showed a lot more patience, but it still only takes one punch. I don’t know when it’s gonna happen – we’ve got five rounds to solidify this fight and I might have jumped the gun against Frank the first time – I know I did – but there are times for aggression and times to pull the reins. That comes with experience, and I think I’ve got that now. The first time, Frank was fighting a street brawler / wrestler. The big difference now is that Frank’s fighting a fighter. I’ve had almost two years of experience under my belt and got in the Octagon with a legend like Randy Couture and another guy who’s had over 50 fights and has been very successful, so it hasn’t been a walk in the park.”
“I wouldn’t have it any other way,” said Lesnar. “But I think I’ve handled it quite well and I think I’m doing just fine. I never think about it too hard because your mind starts racing and you use a lot of energy – I just think about the guy that’s put in front of me.”
“I remember back to right after the fight at the press conference, when Frank basically said that he got lucky,” said Lesnar. “He said he was drowning in punches and reached out and I gave him a leg.”
“I think I was more in shock that the fight ended the way it did,” said Lesnar. “I wasn’t merely impressed just with Mir’s standup. When a guy stands in front of you and he’s not himself and not doing what he typically does, there’s more shock in that for me.”
“I watched that fight a hundred times and I look at Frank and everything he does just seems real robotic to me,” Lesnar continues. “I felt really bad for Nogueira in that fight. I saw a guy that with so much more potential…”
“The sport is growing and it’s becoming more visible – which is good – and heavyweights have always been the guys people want to watch,” he said. “(Muhammad) Ali, (George) Foreman, (Mike) Tyson, the heavyweights are the guys that sell the tickets. I think I follow through on every fight too, and I think that’s what make people want to watch. There’s a 275-pound guy out there that has a huge hurdle in front of him – is he gonna make it through it? There’s a lot of drama in that.”
“If I had to put it in a sentence, it’s probably been the best year and a half of my life,” he said. “Not just because of fighting for a great company and that things are going well, but because I’ve had a lot of good things happen to me personally. My wife, my daughter, my son, my family, business has been good, so it’s been a good year and a half inside and outside the Octagon, and I pray to God every day that good things continue. It’s pretty simple out here for me and I like it that way.”
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09 22nd, 2009| 
