There was no value in the matchup from the moment it was announced. It takes some serious justifying and fan-fiction to find a narrative that made any sense. We all knew this. But as usually happens, many of us bought into the hype – the UFC marketing machine slipped the soma into our morning coffee and we drank lustily.
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Brock Lesnar after losing the UFC Heavyweight belt to Cain Velasquez at UFC 121
Brock Lesnar, 5-3 in the UFC, returns from a four-and-a-half year hiatus at the age of 38 to a sport that has drastically evolved since his last fight - which was his second consecutive TKO loss - to face a former K-1 kickboxer who has knocked out a who’s-who of top competition during the same time frame Lesnar has been play-fighting on a reduced schedule.
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