Before last Saturday, the sentiment from every single UFC fan seemed to be in agreement. Hell, we wrote it on this website time in and time out. It was going to take a breed of heavyweight that didn’t currently exist to beat Brock Lesnar.
We looked down the list of contenders and found flaws with them all. First, we thought Frank Mir would end Lesnar’s reign of terror. Until we found out that putting Frank Mir against the cage is like putting Superman near kryptonite. Then, we all assumed that the massive size of Shane Carwin could take down the giant viking warrior that we called the UFC heavyweight champ. Until we found that superior boxing and takedown defense is great as long as you can do it for more than one round. We were at a loss. Lesnar was unbeatable.
When the fight with Velasquez was announced, the hope began building, but most people didn’t believe Cain had what it took. He was too small and he would be flattened by the massive Lesnar. We all believed that it would take a super heavyweight to beat Brock, and simply Velasquez wasn’t it.
Except, he was.
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Now, in the aftermath of UFC 121 I’ve started to hear the exact same things again. I keep hearing about how Cain Velasquez is going to be champion for a long, long time. People are talking about the “Velasquez Puzzle” just like they used to talk about Lesnar. We, the MMA community, just don’t seem to learn. No one is unbeatable in this game. Some one will defeat Cain Velasquez.
At the very least, I understood why we all looked at Lesnar like a ninth grade algebra problem. He was something we had never seen before. No one had ever been as big and as quick as that man. However, we’ve seen people of the same ilk as Cain Velasquez. We’ve seen great wrestlers with good standup and excellent cardio. We see them in every single weight class. Just look at the UFC champions right now. Both Georges St. Pierre and Frankie Edgar are cut from same mold as Cain. Rashad Evans is another great example of this. Have all of these guys been beat before? Yep. Not often, but they have been beaten.
I am a huge Cain fan. I believed before any number of people. However, just like anyone who gets their hands on a UFC belt, he is becoming revered as something he not. Junior Dos Santos can borrow a page from Matt Serra’s playbook and knock Cain Velasquez out. Do I think it will happen? No, but it certainly could.
Part of the beauty that is MMA is that no one is unbeatable. Let’s embrace that instead of calling anyone invincible.
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