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The pro-wrestling fraternity celebrates Brock Lesnar’s win in the UFC
By Zach Arnold | July 4, 2010
ARIEL HELWANI: “What did you think about what happened just there? Brock Lesnar defeating Shane Carwin via submission.”
JIM ROSS: “Well, I tell ya, I was worried in the first round but I know Brock’s got great guts and determination. He’s got a renewed spirit about his life and we saw that. I don’t know of any other heavyweight in MMA that would have endured the first round against a great fighter like Shane Carwin other than Brock Lesnar. So, I’m really proud of Brock.”
ARIEL HELWANI: “How about everything he had to go through this past year, to see him go out there so happy and humble. How does that make you feel?”
JIM ROSS: “Well, he’s a changed man. He’s still the baddest S.O.B. on the planet. He’s right about that until somebody changes it, but he’s got a different outlook and it’s a healthier outlook for him. And now that everything is on the same page, he’s quite the specimen.”
ARIEL HELWANI: “Can anyone stop him?”
JIM ROSS: “No one’s unbeatable and he realizes that. And that’s why he’ll continue to train. No one is unbeatable, especially in the UFC Heavyweight division. But Brock Lesnar is an animal and he is a rare breed, I’ll tell you.”
If you get a chance, watch the entire video. Watching the respect that Steve Austin and Bill Goldberg pay Brock Lesnar here is surreal, especially if you remember the match the three men were involved at MSG for Wrestlemania. Jim Ross was fired up. All of these guys were fired up, especially Paul Heyman.
I thought the message Paul Heyman had at the end of the video for the people currently running the ship in the American pro-wrestling scene was a message that a lot of fans would love to say to someone like Vince McMahon. (Heyman also buried Steve Mazzagatti during the interview.)
What’s fascinating to watch is just how into UFC and MMA in general these guys are. You see that passion and it’s not a feeling you see in pro-wrestling any more.
On a side note, I wonder who will give Jim Ross a chance to do play-by-play for an MMA show…
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Ross was terrible the last time he called something that wasn’t pro wrestling.
I think its funny, wasn’t Austin the one (correct me if I’m wrong) who refused to put Brock over when he first started? Funny how things work out.
Austin was fine with putting Brock over. He wasn’t fine with putting Brock over in an unadvertised TV match booked solely to “punish” him for badmouthing the writers.
Yeah, there’s plenty of irony in regards to everyone in the wrestling business being Brock’s friend nowadays, given how he was kicked to the kerb and persona non grata just six years ago. Especially WWE’s hatchet man Jim Ross now waving the pom poms and cheering him on.
Meanwhile, Paul Heyman has some nerve telling anyone not to ride Brock’s coattails. He’s made a career out of it!
Heyman also has a lot of nerve telling the pro wrestling industry to get their acts together. He shouldn’t talk given how many people he screwed over and the fact that he did his share to inflict damage to the wrestling industry, which plays into how things are today on and off camera.
Brock Lesnar is lucky to still be the UFC Heavyweight Champion today. The referee should have stopped the fight in the first round when Shane Carwin landed numerous punches unanswered from a defenseless Brock. If the roles were reversed or if Shane was punishing any other fighter like that, the fight would have been stopped.
I would pay to hear Jim Ross try to do MMA.
Especially if he goes
BAH GAWD HE’S A HOSS BAH GAWD GOOD GAWD OH MIGHTY AS GOD AS MY WITNESS HE IS BROKEN IN HALF
Then go do a promo for Skittles.
BAH GAWD THEY’RE FRUITY!!!!1111
HELL FIRE AN BRIMSTONE, BAH GAWD!!