Can you believe that Daniel Cormier fought Lucas Browne in MMA?

[The Natural Born Runner]

In b4...

So for those who don't know, Lucas Browne is a Heavyweight boxer who for a moment was a Heavyweight World Champion after beating Ruslan Chagaev. A short time afterwards Lucas was stripped of the title after testing positive for PEDs. Lucas previously sported a 25-0 record, that was until he ran into British boxer Dillian Whyte who brutally knocked him out in a one-sided affair. Lucas looked like a total amateur against Whyte and it begged a lot of questions about the possibility of his record being somewhat padded. Outside of Chagaev his best win was James Toney, but for anyone who knows combat sports it's safe to say that it wasn't exactly a prime version of James.

With all that said, I was in absolute shock when I learnt that Daniel Cormier fought and beat this man in MMA. Lucas Browne last fought in MMA back in 2010 and to this day has a 6-2 record, meanwhile we all know how successful DC has been, becoming a multiple time world champion. The fight was DC's third career win and the fight took place in Australia of all places.

Bonus: Dillian Whyte has also fought in MMA, he holds a 1-0 record with his only win coming in 12 seconds over Mark Stroud. Another nugget for those who like their trivia, the event Dillian competed at was called UCMMA1: Bad Breed, where Jimi Manuwa, Jason Young, James McSweeney and Tom Watson all fought on the same night.

 

[Ilovepizza]

Lucas Browne is a can.

D/E level fighter.

 

[Londonjitsu]

In b4...

So for those who don't know, Lucas Browne is a Heavyweight boxer who for a moment was a Heavyweight World Champion after beating Ruslan Chagaev. A short time afterwards Lucas was stripped of the title after testing positive for PEDs. Lucas previously sported a 25-0 record, that was until he ran into British boxer Dillian Whyte who brutally knocked him out in a one sided affair.

Lucas looked like a total amateur against Whyte and it begged a lot of questions about how padded his record could be. Outside of Chagaev his best win was James Toney and that was an ancient version at that.

With all that said, I was in absolute shock when I learnt that Daniel Cormier fought and beat this man in MMA.

Just a little nugget for those who are both Boxing and MMA fans.

Bonus: Dillian Whyte has also fought in MMA, he holds a 1-0 record, with his only win coming in 12 seconds over Mark Stroud. Another nugget for those who like their trivia, the event Dillian competed at was called UCMMA1: Bad Breed, where Jimi Manuwa, Jason Young, James McSweeney and Tom Watson fought on the same night.

That's on my road at "the troxy" in East London. Most people are doing martial arts around here

 

[The Natural Born Runner]

Lucas Browne is a can.

D/E level fighter.

Agreed, I could not believe what I was watching in the Dillian Whyte bout.

Was some of the easiest money I've ever made.

 

[TeenageMutantLesnarTurtle]

Is there any footage? how did DC KO him?

Browne was pretty early in his boxing career at the time tbf, he was focusing mostly on MMA but I guess the DC and Jim York losses changed his mind.

 

[Ilovepizza]

Is there any footage? how did DC KO him?

Browne was pretty early in his boxing career at the time tbf, he was focusing mostly on MMA but I guess the DC and Jim York losses changed his mind.

Cormier took him down and elbowed him.

 

[Aranha21]

Is there any footage? how did DC KO him?

Browne was pretty early in his boxing career at the time tbf, he was focusing mostly on MMA but I guess the DC and Jim York losses changed his mind.

Pretty sure there is no footage of it.

Lucas Browne isn't even a good boxer either. Repeated PED user who beat an old Chagaev and picked up a belt. He was a title holder, not a champion

 

[Reach4theSky]

There is literally zero footage of this fight..

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

I remember watching this on Aussie cable. Browne had been on a bit of a tear, knocking out everyone pretty quick and this Daniel Cormier rocked up. Seemed like a nice guy in the interview, kind of short and pudgy, didn't think much of him. Then the commentators mentioned he was a 2 time Olympic wrestler, impressive but still figured Lucas would have this cause hey, I'd never heard of this Cormier bloke.

From memory DC just waited at distance for the takedown then just fucked him up on the ground, thought it might have been more punches than elbows but don't remember, was a long time ago and only watched it once. I certainly followed DC after that, he became a bit more well known thereafter ha ha.

 

[The Natural Born Runner]

Is there any footage? how did DC KO him?

Browne was pretty early in his boxing career at the time tbf, he was focusing mostly on MMA but I guess the DC and Jim York losses changed his mind.

I've scoured Google and I've not had much luck to be honest.

 

[EndlessCritic]

Guy fails at MMA, becomes world champion boxer.

 

[The Natural Born Runner]

Guy fails at MMA, becomes world champion boxer.

In all fairness, he's a total can.

 

[HUGHPHUG]

I used to go to a few of those early UCMMA events, they pretty much picked up where Cage Rage left off, minus the big names.
Anywhere we could go watch the likes of James Thompson, Mark Weir, Tom Watson, Brad Pickett etc

It was also where I first became familiar with this guy. I've followed his career since, made a couple of posts about him in the WW forum before

Check out his record - Shaun 'The Legend' Lomas

 

[EndlessCritic]

In all fairness, he's a total can.

1: Tomato cans, by definition, are fighters who are fed to more skilled fighters to lose. Under no definition of "can" in combat sports history is Lucas Browne a can.

2: Browne beat Chagaev, one of the elite HW's of the last era. He is therefore a proven high level heavyweight boxer, and any suggestion that he is not means you're living in denial.

3: He held the WBA world title.

Oh wait, I forgot. According to boxing purists, great boxers never lose. If a boxer loses a fight, it must mean he's a can.

 

[Ilovepizza]

1: Tomato cans, by definition, are fighters who are fed to more skilled fighters to lose. Under no definition of "can" in combat sports history is Lucas Browne a can.

2: Browne beat Chagaev, one of the elite HW's of the last era. He is therefore a proven high level heavyweight boxer, and any suggestion that he is not means you're living in denial.

3: He held the WBA world title.

Oh wait, I forgot. According to boxing purists, great boxers never lose. If a boxer loses a fight, it must mean he's a can.

tl;dr he is a D-E level fighter/boxer/whatever

 

[The Natural Born Runner]

1: Tomato cans, by definition, are fighters who are fed to more skilled fighters to lose. Under no definition of "can" in combat sports history is Lucas Browne a can.

2: Browne beat Chagaev, one of the elite HW's of the last era. He is therefore a proven high level heavyweight boxer, and any suggestion that he is not means you're living in denial.

3: He held the WBA world title.

Oh wait, I forgot. According to boxing purists, great boxers never lose. If a boxer loses a fight, it must mean he's a can.

Lol, did you watch the Whyte fight? The guy is a can, Hearn literally made that fight to get Dillian a world title fight. Dillian is the prospect, Browne was the slow, old, off the juice, punching bag that they needed.

Do you even know anything about Lucas Browne? Have you even watched the Chagaev fight lol, the guy was hurt multiple times and almost finished in the 6th round. He landed a lucky punch that hurt Chagaev and he did well to finish him from there, but without that punch he was well on his way to a loss. With all that said, we are talking about a Ruslan that had been fighting for almost 20 years lol.

No high level boxer turns up and performs the way he did against Dillian Whyte. Dillian is not an elite fighter, he's a mid-level talent, and Lucas made him look like a beast. Lucas had a padded 25-0 record, with next to no names, just a bunch of random Aussies, a washed up Chagaev and a super washed up James Toney.

Lucas is also a PED cheat, and judging by the pudgy version of him that turned up against Dillian, he needed them roids to compete.

I also love the way that you bring up the fact that he won a world title. World titles in Boxing are like assholes, everyone and their dog has one. Charles Martin had a title, Charles fucking Martin!

 

[MMA_enthusiast]

I remember watching this on Aussie cable. Browne had been on a bit of a tear, knocking out everyone pretty quick and this Daniel Cormier rocked up. Seemed like a nice guy in the interview, kind of short and pudgy, didn't think much of him. Then the commentators mentioned he was a 2 time Olympic wrestler, impressive but still figured Lucas would have this cause hey, I'd never heard of this Cormier bloke.

From memory DC just waited at distance for the takedown then just fucked him up on the ground, thought it might have been more punches than elbows but don't remember, was a long time ago and only watched it once. I certainly followed DC after that, he became a bit more well known thereafter ha ha.

I call complete bullshit of you saying you watched this on Aussie cable. if this did happened and was aired on cable, there should at least be a single picture of them 2 in the cage somewhere on the net, there isn’t. Secondly Fox Sports (Aussie cable) first event to air in Australia was Velásquez vs dos Santos in 2012. The only other big event to air in Australia other than traditional ppv was on free to air channel one which was the ufc 110 ppv which was the first event in Australia as a means to expand into the market for PPV. If you expect me to believe that XMMA, the organisation that promoted the Cormier- Browne match in July 2010 had a television deal with Fox Sports Australia, I am pretty sure they would have managed to at least get more than three total events overall in their company history and therefore I could believe that you may watched this fight on Aussie cable/ Fox Sports.

So for the reasons listed above you are a complete liar and a disgrace to Australians. Shame on you mate

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

I call complete bullshit of you saying you watched this on Aussie cable. if this did happened and was aired on cable, there should at least be a single picture of them 2 in the cage somewhere on the net, there isn’t. Secondly Fox Sports (Aussie cable) first event to air in Australia was Velásquez vs dos Santos in 2012. The only other big event to air in Australia other than traditional ppv was on free to air channel one which was the ufc 110 ppv which was which was the first event in Australia as a means to expand into the market for PPV. If you expect me to believe that XMMA, the organisation that promoted the Cormier- Browne match in July 2010 had a television deal with Fox Sports Australia, I am pretty sure they would have managed to at least get more than three total events overall in their company history and therefore I could believe that you may watched this fight on Aussie cable/ Fox Sports.

So for the reasons listed above you are a complete liar and a disgrace to Australians. Shame on you mate

Strong words. Anyway I don't know why but I can't seem to find the old Cage Fighting Championships or XMMA on youtube, there were definitely some on there back in the day, maybe someone else owns the tapes, AFC possibly? Anyway if you look at this Lucas Browne highlights package you can see the Foxsports logo in the corner of the screen for some of his MMA fights, see 1:03 you'll see one of the fights from XMMA.



Also Aussie MMA has been shown on cable since 1997, you can see the Mario Sperry vs Chris Haseman fight from the Australian Vale Tudo show below. The whole show is in youtube but better not post it cause it has strippers in the cage.



Apology accepted.

 

[MMA_enthusiast]

Strong words. Anyway I don't know why but I can't seem to find the old Cage Fighting Championships or XMMA on youtube, there were definitely some on there back in the day, maybe someone else owns the tapes, AFC possibly? Anyway if you look at this Lucas Browne highlights package you can see the Foxsports logo in the corner of the screen for some of his MMA fights, see 1:03 you'll see one of the fights from XMMA.



Also Aussie MMA has been shown on cable since 1997, you can see the Mario Sperry vs Chris Haseman fight from the Australian Vale Tudo show below. The whole show is in youtube but better not post it cause it has strippers in the cage.



Apology accepted.

Wow u actually found footage of XMMA, that is actually incredible, CFC was definitely aired that i am sure of. I guess you were right, i am sorry for calling u a liar, i remember following lucas browne back then because he was an auburn boy an area close to where i grew up and i remember having fox sports back then and i was looking for XMMA 2 the event with him fighting Cormier and i never saw a listing for it on any of the guides. I know vale tudo was aired back in the day but as ppv in 1997. i am remember the prehistoric main event channel being called EVENT TV back then. I just can't fathom that fox sports aired mma directly on the cable suscription. But that small snippet of footage was enough for me. Sorry for calling you a liar. weird that it may have aired in australia but not a single photo can be found of them in competition.

 

[TankAbbott4Eva]

Wow u actually found footage of XMMA, that is actually incredible, CFC was definitely aired that i am sure of. I guess you were right, i am sorry for calling u a liar, i remember following lucas browne back then because he was an auburn boy an area close to where i grew up and i remember having fox sports back then and i was looking for XMMA 2 the event with him fighting Cormier and i never saw a listing for it on any of the guides. I know vale tudo was aired back in the day but as ppv in 1997. i am remember the prehistoric main event channel being called EVENT TV back then. I just can't fathom that fox sports aired mma directly on the cable suscription. But that small snippet of footage was enough for me. Sorry for calling you a liar. weird that it may have aired in australia but not a single photo can be found of them in competition.

All good man. Like I said there used to be some footage of the old CFCs on Youtube back in the day but it's not there, I feel someone bought the library and took it off there. I did find the Perosh vs Te Huna one, I thought this was the one where Te Huna went the boots after the win, looks like it was cut out.



I remember the night DC v Browne was on, I knew Browne but didn't know DC and only saw it by accident while browsing, I don't think it was advertised. Surprising there is no footage of it, I haven't tried scouring the net yet but if no one here can find it I doubt I can. The CFCs would pop up randomly as well and I'm sure there was one or two other short lived promotions. No idea how they got a deal with Fox though, maybe they gave them the footage or something?

You probably remember Combat 8 as well, bit more recent, MMA but with restrictions on ground fighting, Hopoate vs Bam Bam below. I remember Lenny Zappavigna fighting as well.