UFC 82 was a special night for former heavyweight champion Mark Coleman. The 43-year-old Coleman became the fifth member of the UFC Hall of Fame and its first heavyweight representative. Most would assume that being inducted into the HOF is a sign of recognition for a good career that has come to the end.
However, that is not the case for Coleman. The new HOF member will fight again in August, becoming the second UFC opponent for Brock Lesnar. UFC 87 is currently scheduled for August 9 in Lesnar’s home state of Minnesota.
Coleman began his MMA career at UFC 10 in 1996 and fought with the promotion up through UFC 18 in 1999. “The Hammer” then moved onto PrideFC where he spent the rest of his career with mixed results ending in 2006 with a loss to Fedor Emelianenko at Pride 32.
It appears the UFC has rethought their Brock Lesnar strategy and is now moving into a slow and steady build up patter. Matching Lesnar with Coleman presents Lesnar with an opponent with the same skillset – wrestling. Coleman does not have much of a standup game or much of a submission game and is well past his prime. Lesnar should be able to easily outmuscle Coleman and practice his striking against an opponent he won’t need to fear while standing. When the fight does hit the ground, Lesnar should hold the edge in wrestling and be able to work on his ground-and-pound game as well.
It looks like Coleman is “taking one for the team” here much like Ken Shamrock and allowing an up-and-coming fighter to “get over” on a legend of the sport.
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can you guys say who cares… why dont they just give lenar the w
i hope this doesnt back fire in there faces
u know i wouldnt mind seein kimbo take on tank
They just fought a couple of weeks ago on Shotime for Elite. Youtube should have the video if you are interested.
They should have started him off slow to begin with. Mark is not Randy and won’t be able to compete at this level at his age. Brock should be able to out muscle him and win by ground and pound in the first round. Take one for the team pretty much sums it up.
lol oops.. i meant kimbo take on lesnar
I just hope Coleman lives through the event.
This should have been lesner’s first fight. This is more like it.
i think lesnar did better than what we really think the only thing he did wrong was HE HAD NO RESPECT FOR MIR at all how u going to stand wright on top of a bjj excpert with ur legs spread open!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Man this will be another LnP especially if coleman get control. But they are both extra hyper, so maybe we see a battle. But if its colemans choice this will be a roll-around match.
lesnar should eat coleman alive cant wait
lesnar will be champ soon u watch
i hope kurt angle joins soon and fights lesnar how mad would that be :)
and the bottom when it said shamrock tanked a match he was talking about the franklin vs shamrock i always knew that fight was rigged lol
coleman better try though