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Brock Lesnar’s Midwestern charm
By Zach Arnold | November 22, 2008
The Pioneer Press out of Minnesota has a profile story on Brock Lesnar meeting a 23-year old new Mom who hunted a deer on her family property and promptly named it The Lesnar Buck.
“Everybody knows I’m a deer hunter, and when I read this lady named a deer after me, I said, ‘That’s cool. I want to meet her,’ ” Lesnar said.
The Gustafsons and Lesnars chatted about deer hunting, ultimate fighting and Peyton’s charming demeanor. The baby was dressed in a camouflage fleece snowsuit, and all the Gustafsons wore camo hunting jackets.
Lesnar apologized for being late. “I left the heavyweight belt back at the other house and I had to drive back and get it,” he said sheepishly. He was still sporting five stitches over his right eye from the Couture fight.
Will the message boards go crazy and start calling Mr. Lesnar a ‘belt mark’ like they did for Tim Sylvia? Nah…
The champion had time to to watch Kevin Garnett return to Minnesota, as the Boston Celtics beat up on the hapless Timberwolves.
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Sounds like it just sort of occurred to him along the way that maybe they would expect to see or want to see the belt. Nothing wrong with that.
Aside from his raging homophobia, he seems like a good guy. Basically, the Dalai Lama (also a well known homophobe) with huge muscles.
It doesn’t sound like he wanted the belt to hold up his pants and ego as much as he was going to visit some fans and wanted to bring the belt for them to see it.
At a public event in Ottawa, Canada, Randy Couture made sure he had the belt with him. It’s for the fans, not the athlete himself. (Like where Timmy claims to have done the dirty deed with the belt on…creepy…)
Brock Lesnar was actually being respectful to his fans.
homophobe? That means a fear of homosexuals. If it’s used as anything ewlse, it’s a bashing epithet by homosexuals and, their fans to discredit any debate on emotional grounds.
Free speech and, debate is the cure for anything to do with speech!
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