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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
"This fight I see it going either way. We can stand and if either one of us, I of course have superior wrestling skill... I wanna be able to control this fight and take it wherever I want to. I'm a better ground-and-pound guy. That's where I've shown a lot of success. There's no secrets about my game. I'm a pretty blue collar, straightforward, let's get after it kind of fighter. My prediction is I'm coming home with the belt on Sunday morning...
The training camp is the hardest part of this. That's what takes a lot of fighters out of the game. It's a grueling time. The fight itself is probably the easiest part. It's the part that us, as athletes and competitors, love to do for the love of the game. That's our passion, that's our pure enjoyment, but we torture ourselves in the off season to make ourselves better in season. It's a long, grueling process. There's no easy way around this game. You have to get in, you have to do fight simulation practices, and you have to get your hands dirty. For 10 to 12 weeks that's what I've been doing."
-UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar checks in with his friends at the Power Trip Radio show on KFAN in Minneapolis to discuss training and his fight this weekend at UFC 116 against Shane Carwin.
Penick's Analysis: Lesnar was discussing his training camp due to host Mike Morris' comments about witnessing him cut 10 lbs. of water weight in a little over an hour from training last week. That's how intense Lesnar has been keeping his workouts in camp for the 12 weeks as he said. For anyone thinking ring rust is going to be a factor, or for anyone that thinks Lesnar will be anything but 100% coming into Saturday, this should show you just how he's been looking at this and how serious he is with his training. This heavyweight clash is going to be insane and Saturday cannot get here soon enough.
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