Shaquille O’Neal has a new TV show called Shaq VS where he takes on top athletes in challenges that are skewed his way. Not just skewed because Shaq is a freaking giant … he also gets head starts, score handicaps, and all sorts of other things. So basically there’s very little point to these competitions past whether these athletes can outperform some random Shaq-related benchmark.
Below you can see Shaq boxing it up with Oscar De La Hoya for an episode that will air on ABC September 8th. The week after, he’ll try to outswim lazy pothead Michael Phelps and then …read more

I dunno what happened over the past few days to make the UFC turn it’s heavyweight plan on it’s head, but something did. They just scrapped the Shane Carwin / Cain Velasquez title shot eliminator and have fast tracked Shane Carwin for a title shot against Brock Lesnar at UFC 106 in November.
Carwin made the cut, and Cain Velasquez gets thrown back for more seasoning: He’ll be fighting Ben Rothwell at UFC 104 now. In a way, this works out nicely. Carwin is a better stylistic match against Lesnar … he knocks people out in thunderous fashion and Brock Lesnar’s …read more

The moment Brock Lesnar beat the goo out of Frank Mir at UFC 100, the Lesnar hype train hit full speed. Brock is now ranked at the very top of several legitimate heavyweight ranking lists, beaten out only by one man you might not have heard too much about: Fedor Emelianenko.
Who is Fedor? He’s a portly looking Russian who looks more like a window washer than a cage champion. But for nearly a decade he has fought in Japan, beating out a huge amount of the world’s best heavyweights. His record currently stands at 30-1, with the only loss coming …read more

On Saturday night at UFC 100, Brock Lesnar snuffed out Frank Mir and became the undisputed UFC heavyweight champion. But it wasn’t exactly the kind of victory that would make for a good uplifting movie because afterwards Brock Lesnar the professional fighter reverted back to Brock Lesnar the professional wrestler.
The whole situation started with Lesnar getting into the bloodied face of his defeated opponent and telling him to “talk some more poop now.” Note that I replaced Lesnar’s four letter word with one of my own just for those who are rendered morally distraught by swearing. While this act was …read more

UFC 100 has come and gone and we’ve got all the results from the biggest UFC event of the year!
Brock Lesnar made Frank Mir eat his words tonight, taking his opponent down in both the first and second rounds and slipping a number of punches right to the kisser through Mir’s arms. Despite an early leglock attempt in the first and flying knee in the second from Frank Mir, Brock’s size and strength were just too much. The fight ended 1:48 into the second round when Lesnar pinned Mir against the cage and knocked him unconscious.
Georges St Pierre dominated Thiago …read more

The day all mixed martial arts fans have been waiting for is finally here! UFC 100 is tonight on pay per view, and it’s got more amazing fights than you can shake a stick at. Now we’ll take a look at the main event featuring fake fighter turned real fighter Brock Lesnar against ground expert Frank Mir.
The fun thing about this fight is both guys have weaknesses that the other is easily capable of exploiting. Lesnar has only been training mixed martial arts for a few years and there’s no way his jiu jitsu is even close to Frank Mir’s. …read more

Brock Lesnar is a hulking athlete. Ronnie Coleman is a huge body builder. With UFC 100 around the corner and Lesnar inspiring me to get in the gym, I want to compare the two mammoth men who compete in two very different worlds. Brock has evolved from collegiate wrestling champion to WWE wrestler to NFL hopeful to UFC champion. Ronnie Coleman entered the world of body building in 1990 and has held several major titles including Mr. Olympia from 1998-2005.
Both have unreal muscle bound bodies with Ronnie Coleman at 5′11” and 296-325 lbs (depends on the …read more

Although the tickets for UFC 100 sold out in record time you can still watch UFC 100 at the viewing party at Mandalay Bay Beach on a the huge, Closed Circuit LED screen for tickets priced at $50. Tickets for the viewing party go on sale at 12 noon PT today, May 1st.
Here are some details as reported by UFC.com
Las Vegas, NV (USA) – With the mega-card UFC® 100 already sold out, the Ultimate Fighting Championship® organization will hold a closed-circuit screening of this historic pay-per-view at Mandalay Bay Beach Saturday, July 11. Don’t miss your chance to watch all …read more

UFC 100 will not just be a pay per view, it’s going to be a celebration of The Ultimate Fighters 100th fight. Yeah, duh, I know.
Prior to the July 11th event at Mandalay Bay in Nevada, UFC will premiere UFC Ultimate 100 Greatest Fights starting on July 5th. Fans can vote on which fights they think deserve to be in the 100 Greatest Fights. That starts on May 1st at http://ultimate100.spike.com/. That show will start airing on July 5th at 9pm EST and will continue every evening that week, with the exception of Friday July 10th.
Here is the current fight …read more

Here is a video of Brock Lesnar’s first professional MMA fight vs. Min Soo Kim at Dynamite 2007 where he completely dominated his opponent. Yes, I know this is an old video, but it’s always fun to see an MMA fighter in his first fight. I’m not sure what Kim’s weight is, but he looks to be outweighed by at least 50 pounds. Lesnar’s rematch with Mir should be interesting…whenever that happens. He still has a lot of training and learning to do.