If Anyone Can- Carwin Can
UFC 116 is looking to be a very interesting card for the finally deep UFC Heavy Weight Division. When Brock first started wrecking people most fans felt he would own the division the way Wanderlei Silva did in Pride (5 years as champion). Little did we know Lesnar was only the beginning of a new generation of HW’s. They are skilled, athletic, and most of all impossibly big for their abilities. Heavyweight fights are short because the fighters are more skilled and dish out inhuman levels of damage not because they just gas and fall over. Shane Carwin is a perfect example, 12 fights and nobody has gotten to round 2 with him.
Lesnar is a seriously daunting challenge in that he really has no obvious weaknesses. There are many unknowns with him (his conditioning, his chin) but that isn’t the same as a weakness. Nobody really knows how well he can take a punch but I suspect given the size of his neck and his posture fighting it is much better than most people might think. His positioning on the ground rules out most kinds of submissions, so he has clearly learned for his 1st fight with Frank “Muhr”. Even given all of this the division is so deep a long reign as champion isn’t assured for anyone.