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wildbill21475 said 09/03, 02:41 AM
Shamrock by submission in round 1.

Lesnar by knockout R3

wildbill21475 said 09/03, 03:43 AM
Shamrock is what you would call a wily veteran. He is by far the most experienced fighter Kimbo has fought. He isn't going to go into the fight and do what Tank or Thompson did and try to trade punches with Kimbo he is much smarter than that. Ken will go into the fight and expose every weakness Kimbo has such as lack of takedown defense as proven by Thompson. Once Shamrock has Kimbo on the ground he is going to expose Kimbo to something he hasn't seen yet in his career submission wrestling. When you are Ken's age you fight to your strengths and Ken's strenghts are than he will be able to submit Kimbo and he will do it early in the fight because he also knows that his stamina isn't what it used to be.

What you fail to realize is that Kimbo was on the verge of losing against Thompson, behind on every scorecard when the califlower ear exploded and that is the only reason he won that fight. Thompson was dominating Kimbo in everyway up until that point and Thompson isn't half the fighter that Ken Shamrock has been in his career. Thompson showed Kimbo can't fight off of his back and he can't defend takedowns which is exactly what Shamrock will do to beat Kimbo.

Brock argument next

wildbill21475 said 09/03, 04:29 AM
Kimbo may stand with Shamrock, but Shamrock isn't going to stand with Kimbo. Its going to the ground and its going to be a submission and not for Kimbo.

On to Lesnar/Couture:

Its impressive that Couture is HW champ at 45 yes, but I think it speaks more on the state of the HW division and how weak it is that Couture is the champ. Sylvia is the only big HW that Couture has had any real success against in his career. Big HW's like Josh Barnett and Ricco Rodriguez are the reason Couture went to LHW in the first place he couldn't hang with them.

Lesnar is going to be the while not the tallest, is by far the biggest, strongest, most powerful opponent that Couture has faced in his career. The fact that Randy has taken 14 months off isn't going to help his cause any either. You say Couture's submissions might play in to the result well Couture has only submitted 2 people in his career I think its safe to say he isn't a submission specialist. 43.75% of Coutures wins are decisions 43.75% are KO's with 12.5% being submissions. I don't think we are going to see Brock tap.

Lesnars ground and pound with his size and strength advantage is going to be what wins the fight for him.