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UFC The Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) is a U.S.-based mixed martial arts organization, recognized as the largest MMA promotion in the world. The UFC is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada and is owned and operated by Zuffa, LLC. This promotion is responsible for solidifying the sport's postion in the history-books.
UFC is currently undergoing a remarkable surge in popularity, along with greater mainstream media coverage. UFC programming can now be seen on FOX, FX, and FUEL TV in the United States, as well as in 35 other countries worldwide.
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12-06-2012, 05:24 AM
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The Fun Police
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: UK... Where the sun never shines.
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Originally Posted by Budhisten
His career was just like sex with me - Fast, furious and nobody really appreciates it once it's done 
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Fast, furious, and riddled with disease? 
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12-06-2012, 05:31 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Denmark
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Oh yeah - lot's of disease, forgot about disease... Damn you for making my joke better! 
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12-06-2012, 07:06 AM
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Flyweight
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Surrey, UK
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There are few fighters where I genuinely count down the days to their fights. Brock was one of them. Can't deny you were all excited to see him in the octagon!
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12-06-2012, 08:32 AM
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Super Heavyweight
Join Date: Mar 2007
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I like Brock and the fact that he brought the HW division back. Part of it was timing, who knew he would show up around the same time of then unknowns Carwin, Cain, JDS, Struve, etc? At the same time, without someone as polarizing and visually intimidating the HW division may not get it's credit. To a lot of casual/average fans, seeing Lesnar get beat by Cain sent a message of how bad that man really is. It places some perspective on skills vs size.
Also I was a fan of Lesnar and the fact that he made Mir's face look like he was in a second motorcycle accident.
EDIT: I wouldn't say I miss him, I appreciated him and what he did while he was in the UFC.
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12-06-2012, 08:47 AM
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Featherweight
Join Date: Feb 2009
Posts: 1,035
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I think Brock had done what he could do and wasn't going any further, save some scraps with the middle tier of the heavyweight division. But what would have been the appeal?
Both for Brock and for the fans, he's the guy that needs to be at the top or near the top.
I still think if Brock had started MMA training after he got out of college, he would have been an absolute beast and might have reigned or been near the top for a long time.
Oh, so I guess I don't 'miss him', to be fair, he didn't have enough fights for me develop that sort of clingy relationship.
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12-06-2012, 09:09 AM
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Bantamweight
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Dallas, Texas, USA
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I can tell you this much, Zuffa misses him. A heavyweight showman, with a monstrous physique always draws. It helps to have some talent as well. Such as, effective strength, decent takedowns, and some nice caveman ground and pound.
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12-06-2012, 09:51 AM
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Super Heavyweight
Join Date: Jan 2010
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I had my fill of him. He was cool. But he was highly overrated.
I don't see how he was that entertaining? I mean other than the 2nd Mir fight where he went nuts afterwards what really did he do? He went to hunt in the woods for months. Sat in a hospital bed for months. And we hardly heard from him. He showed up to the Cain and Reem fights and got manhandled. As he said nothing. He wasn't that entertaining.
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12-06-2012, 09:52 AM
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American Fighter
Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Eastvale, Ca
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Originally Posted by _CaptainRon
I can tell you this much, Zuffa misses him. A heavyweight showman, with a monstrous physique always draws. It helps to have some talent as well. Such as, effective strength, decent takedowns, and some nice caveman ground and pound.
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Don't forget his signature move
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12-06-2012, 09:53 AM
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Speed Kills
Join Date: Jun 2009
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I would have to say I do. He made a lot of interesting fights. Sure his standup was laughable and he hated getting hit, but he was such a monster wrestler he was still hard to deal with.
I couldn't care less if he would never hold the belt again, he would still make the division more interesting.
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12-06-2012, 10:12 AM
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Super Heavyweight
Join Date: Jan 2010
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I think the division is more interesting than it has ever been. And better than it has ever been.
JDS, Cain, Overeem, Cormier, Werdum, Big Nog, Struve, Hunt, Roy, Barnett maybe, Bigfoot, Mir, possibly Jon Jones moving up.
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