Brock Lesnar is an impressive physical specimen.
In UFC 116, Shane Carwin gave Brock one hell of a fight.
Carwin spent most of the first round on top of Brock, pounding the hell out of him. This was smart strategy for Carwin. He knows if the fight goes on longer, it favors Lesnar. He also knows that if he gives Brock a moment, Brock will take the opening. That first round teaches and important lesson for self-defense.
Do everything you can to avoid the fight. Avoid, deescalate, evade, escape. But if the fight must come, if there must be violence, then it must be ultra-violence (phrase from Greg Hamilton); you must turn it up to 11, be more aggressive, give your attacker one massive reboot to their OODA loop. Carwin didn’t win the match, but without question he decisively took that round… and all because he poured it on.
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Here’s my big UFC question: Is that round scored 10-9 or 10-8 or worse. How bad of an ass whooping do you have to get in a round, without being KO’d to only get 8 points in a round without losing a point to a penalty?
What did Lesnar do in that round to earn 9 points (aside from not getting KO’d, which is what I would have done…)
Apparently 2 of the 3 judges scored that first round 10-8. Lesnar did get wailed on pretty bad, and while I don’t think he was in a position to have the ref stop it (esp. being a title bout… i.e. think of the fans, Lesnar wasn’t truly in danger), he was mostly just lying there on his back with his arms up blocking and getting nailed… he wasn’t doing a lot to try to advance his position or fully defend himself. I think even in the commentary Rogan scored it 10-8. It was just a dominating performance by Carwin in that first round.