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By Frank Hyden, MMATorch Contributor
I saw the video of Brock Lesnar at the Minnesota Vikings game on Oct. 18. The video is on YouTube if you want to see it. The fact that Brock was there doesn't necessarily mean that he's ducking Shane Carwin. It doesn't look real good, though, to be honest. The timeline doesn't match up. That game was a week and a half ago. During that time, Brock was supposed to be in the middle of the worst illness he's ever had. Dana White said that Brock's been sick for three and a half weeks.
That means that he got sick two weeks before appearing at that Vikings games. I don't think that Brock's ducking Carwin, I believe him when he says he's sick. However, this shows a huge lack of forethought by Brock and his camp. If you've been sick for two weeks, why would you make a public appearance in front of 60,000+ people? Firstly, you can get even sicker, that may have happened here. Secondly, you have to know that there are going to be people waiting in the bushes to pounce on anything that might make you look bad. You have to be more savvy than that.
The regular fan on the street is going to hear that Brock was at a Vikings game a week ago and think he's scared of Carwin. Brock may not care what people think, but he needs to. Right now this is just a short-term hit. As soon as the fight happens in January, people are going to forget about this. However, if Carwin were to jump at this opportunity, and start lobbing accusations at Brock of being scared, this could mushroom. That probably won't happen, though. Carwin doesn't really seem the type to do such a thing. The fact remains, though, that it could happen
The other aspect of the postponement is that it really leaves UFC 106 lacking a big fight. Tito vs. Forrest II and Anthony Johnson vs. Josh Koscheck isn't going to get it done. AJ vs. Kos is a fight I'm personally looking forward to, I think Rumble's got a great chance of knocking out Koscheck. It's going to be a war, and it should be a great fight. However, Tito hasn't fought in a year and a half, and Forrest has looked bad in his last few fights. There's a little crossover appeal with those guys, but not on the level of Brock Lesnar. I really think that they need to put one more big fight on the card. It doesn't have to be a mega-fight, just a nice supplemental fight that'll add some more name value to the card. As it stands right now, the card's looking pretty weak in regards to big names. I hope they can pull something out.
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