Is Brock Lesnar good for the UFC

[Bekirk302]

It felt like I was watching the end of the main event at Wrestlemania instead of the main event of UFC 100 when Brock Lesnar was spitting and giving the fans in attendance the middle finger. Personally, I believe its hilarious but it really sets back the UFC in the eyes of the general public who have just started to warm to the idea of the UFC being a main stream sport. When you portray yourself as a character for entertainment instead of the mixed martial artist your paid to be it fuels the detractors of the sport itself. Do you see MMA becoming a mainstream sport? If your going by the numbers it has already surpassed Boxing and Hockey in popularity. Being a fan from the early days I cant get enough of it.

[tgilb2007]

It felt like I was watching the end of the main event at Wrestlemania instead of the main event of UFC 100 when Brock Lesnar was spitting and giving the fans in attendance the middle finger. Personally, I believe its hilarious but it really sets back the UFC in the eyes of the general public who have just started to warm to the idea of the UFC being a main stream sport. When you portray yourself as a character for entertainment instead of the mixed martial artist your paid to be it fuels the detractors of the sport itself. Do you see MMA becoming a mainstream sport? If your going by the numbers it has already surpassed Boxing and Hockey in popularity. Being a fan from the early days I cant get enough of it.

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I don't see this as a set back for MMA at all. Yea, it was disrespectful towards the fans in the crowd. But, these were also fans booing Brock Lesnar for beating their hometown fans. I think this is getting blown WAY out of proportion, basically because of who Brock Lesnar was, and that it was the UFC 100 event. Had this happened at 99, or 101, it would not of had the attention that it is receiving.

Also mind you this, Brock Lesnar was on the receiving end of 18 months of Frank Mir running his mouth, and antoginizing from their first match, where as we all know, Brock lost. Mir even said himself, he likes to "poke the bear".

Personally, I see the late hit as more of a negative showing for MMA as a whole then Brock running his mouth. Words might not of hurt, but Dan Henderson's flying punch to an unconcious Micheal Bisping could of been FAR more determental to the sport. If there was any permenant damage from that hit, it could of been a LOT worse, then a few words. No matter what was said.