UFC 112 Primer: Brock Lesnar’s Journey From Athletic Freak To UFC Champion
SB Nation will be running a series of primers for UFC 121 to bring casual fans of the sport up to speed on the fights and fighters of one of the biggest shows of the year. The articles should also serve as a tremendous refresher for long time fans of the sport.
It’s easy to write Lesnar’s NFL experiment off as a failure, but the fact that he hadn’t played football since high school and was able to walk onto an NFL team and be a late cut who was invited to play in the European development league showed just how gifted he truly was athletically. Here are some scary numbers from an ESPN article written at the start of his time with the Vikings:
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