The Brock Lesnar era and the state of Sherdog

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I wasn't around these parts at the time. I couldn't ever imagine stooping so low and posting online about MMA. At the time I had 10 boys over every PPV and we discussed UFC on the regular. Fast forward 10 years later and here I am.

Okay, so enlighten me. Before Lesnar made his UFC debut against Mir what was the consensus here? A level athlete, champ in 6 month rhetoric? Or WWF fake garbage gonna get smashed easy wont ever be a champ?

After he lost to Mir and then beat him in the rematch were people freaking out and making excuses or did Sherdog rejoice? What about when he became champion after beating couture?

That was a great time for UFC fans so many fun big ppvs then. UFC 100 was magical and everyone was judged to the gills except gsp.

Discuss

 

[Cowboy Kurt Angle]

I am also curious

 

[Ares Black]

Brock Lesnar fans were the worst.

 

[Clark Rogers]

there was a lot of all of that, tbh.

some thought he had potential, others thought he was a joke, some couldn't get beyond wwe to credit his amateur wrestling history.

 

[Cowboy Kurt Angle]

Brock Lesnar fans were the worst.

Worse then Conor fans ?

 

[Luthien]

Brock Lesnar fans were the worst.

 

[Ares Black]

Worse then Conor fans ?

In a way, yeah. They were convinced that Brock Lesnar could beat anyone in the history of the world.

They were also generally newer fans who were super disrespectful of the history of the sport.

 

[Dyson350]

There was no Brock Lesnar "era" he went as quick as he came.

 

[Ares Black]

He was a very polarizing fighter. A lot of people loved him and thought he was amazing. Even more people hated him and thought he sucked.

 

[jk7707]

I wasn't around these parts at the time. I couldn't ever imagine stooping so low and posting online about MMA. At the time I had 10 boys over every PPV and we discussed UFC on the regular. Fast forward 10 years later and here I am.

Okay, so enlighten me. Before Lesnar made his UFC debut against Mir what was the consensus here? A level athlete, champ in 6 month rhetoric? Or WWF fake garbage gonna get smashed easy wont ever be a champ?

After he lost to Mir and then beat him in the rematch were people freaking out and making excuses or did Sherdog rejoice? What about when he became champion after beating couture?

That was a great time for UFC fans so many fun big ppvs then. UFC 100 was magical and everyone was judged to the gills except gsp.

Discuss

As an old timer here I have some memories of that bygone era.

After he lost to Mir people were freaking out about the ref for the first standup. I think it was steve mazzagatti if I remember right. And it was a general consensus that he got caught, and would destroy Mir in a rematch. Which he did.

Then the GOAT talk started. There were threads that he'd destroy Fedor, and pretty much everyone else at the time. Of course when he got wrecked by Cain there was a huge cadre of "Bork is still just a WWE fighter" rejoicing. There was a lot of vitriol from both sides.

Personally I'm somewhere in the middle. I never though of Brock as a GOAT candidate, but I respect him for jumping into a shark tank and taking fights with the best of the best right away. Think about anyone else fighting who he did at that time in there first few MMA fights and being successful.

 

[Sweater of AV]

Extremely divided with a lot of obnoxious WWF fans pretending like they were MMA experts.

 

[Ares Black]

There was no Brock Lesnar "era" he went as quick as he came.

Nah it lasted a couple of years. And it felt longer because it was so annoying.

I will always be grateful to Cain Velasquez for putting an end to it.

 

[VinceArch]

They were also generally newer fans who were super disrespectful of the history of the sport.

That's a good chunk of Conor fans too.

 

[AL-Tappo McSnappo]

I wasn't around these parts at the time. I couldn't ever imagine stooping so low and posting online about MMA. At the time I had 10 boys over every PPV and we discussed UFC on the regular. Fast forward 10 years later and here I am.

Okay, so enlighten me. Before Lesnar made his UFC debut against Mir what was the consensus here? A level athlete, champ in 6 month rhetoric? Or WWF fake garbage gonna get smashed easy wont ever be a champ?

After he lost to Mir and then beat him in the rematch were people freaking out and making excuses or did Sherdog rejoice? What about when he became champion after beating couture?

That was a great time for UFC fans so many fun big ppvs then. UFC 100 was magical and everyone was judged to the gills except gsp.

Discuss

I am also curious

Put his name on the search button then look up the oldest post, you will see everything boys and girls

 

[Klaavical]

50 percent of MMA fans were insulted and wanted him to lose badly.

 

[Cowboy Kurt Angle]

So when Cain beat Brock was it all Brock is a joke

 

[Karl_Hungus]

I remember this time in MMA and Sherdog history. There was a cadre of us who were offended by Brock even coming over when he wasn't skilled in anything besides wrestling, and had been on the fake wrasslin' circuit for awhile. This was back when there was more respect for TMAs on the forum, I believe. Many of us, including me, wanted him smashed. I even had a shoop of Brock on a toilet as my AV (RIP Brawndo). When Brock lost the fight to Mir, many rejoiced. The loss in the rematch was not unforeseen. The new Brock fans foreshadowed, and set the template, for the later Conor fans. I do agree with the poster above who described the Brock noobs as disrespectful. The whole energy was fun, however, if eventually trying. I still miss Brocktober. Sigh.

Edit (for clarification): I was referring to Mir's "loss in the rematch," but phrased it poorly.

 

[WHITELIONBAR]

I wasn't around these parts at the time. I couldn't ever imagine stooping so low and posting online about MMA. At the time I had 10 boys over every PPV and we discussed UFC on the regular. Fast forward 10 years later and here I am.

Okay, so enlighten me. Before Lesnar made his UFC debut against Mir what was the consensus here? A level athlete, champ in 6 month rhetoric? Or WWF fake garbage gonna get smashed easy wont ever be a champ?

After he lost to Mir and then beat him in the rematch were people freaking out and making excuses or did Sherdog rejoice? What about when he became champion after beating couture?

That was a great time for UFC fans so many fun big ppvs then. UFC 100 was magical and everyone was judged to the gills except gsp.

Discuss

 

[WHITELIONBAR]

No good sir please enlighten me, did you also invite 10 girls

 

[panem-et-circenses]

Iirc people thought he could be something previous to the Mir fight. The K-1 fight was a joke, but most people interested in MMA saw it. He was going to be a mauler in a division that was Fedor and then everybody else. I thought that Mir would win — a decent amount of people thought so too — but remember Mir was thought of as a spent force. The motorcycle accident brought us a Mir that wasn’t able to go a round without gassing. It was very interesting.

The height of Brock was annoying. Worse than the Machida era. Brocktober, Brock’s horrible personality, and the delusion on both sides created a toxic scene. In hindsight, it was great though. Nowadays there aren’t fanboys.