Velasquez moves one step closer to Lesnar by steamrolling Rothwell

The crowd booed because they thought referee Steve Mazzagatti stopped it early but it was a merciful ending for Ben Rothwell, who was tossed pillar-to-pillar for nearly six minutes. Velasquez slammed Rothwell throughout the first round and turned it up notch in the first minute of the second. In the first minute of the second stanza, Velasquez pinned Rothwell against the cage. When the big guy tried to stand Velasquez nailed him with five unanswered lefts that's when Mazzagatti jumped in at 0:58 of the second round.Velasquez is only 7-0 but he's manhandled everyone he's faced. He may be the one heavyweight in the world who can hold his own wrestling with UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar. Velasquez's stand-up defense looked much better against Rothwell, who actually showed some fast hands early in the fight. Rothwell ran into problems when he got stationary. That's when Velasquez tossed him on his head every chance he had. With a ton of Mexican fans rooting h...