{"id":2074,"date":"2008-11-16T02:07:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-16T06:07:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2074"},"modified":"2008-11-16T02:07:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-16T06:07:00","slug":"lesnar-wins-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=2074","title":{"rendered":"Lesnar Wins Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/SR-4uW9rLhI\/AAAAAAAACO0\/PaLtwq_v9zA\/s1600-h\/z111608couture_lesnar.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 400px; height: 304px;\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_aatuWUTj6ic\/SR-4uW9rLhI\/AAAAAAAACO0\/PaLtwq_v9zA\/s400\/z111608couture_lesnar.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5269133195624525330\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><span style=\"font-size:100%;\"><span style=\"font-family:arial;\">I just got home from watching <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">UFC 91<\/span>.  It was a fun night with <a style=\"color: rgb(204, 0, 0);\" href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/sports\/mma\/2008-11-16-ufc-91_N.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">most fights<\/span><\/a> turning out as predicted.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Kenny Florian<\/span> won by rear naked choke in the first round over <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Joe Stevenson<\/span>.  The fight that everyone was waiting for was, of course, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Brock Lesnar vs Randy Couture <\/span>for the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Heavyweight title<\/span>. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> Couture <\/span>was the<span style=\"font-weight: bold;\"> fan favorite <\/span>although <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Vegas odds<\/span> preferred <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Lesnar<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>I expected <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Lesnar<\/span> to bum rush <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Couture <\/span>from the opening bell.  I was wrong.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Lesnar<\/span> displayed great respect for <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Couture <\/span>and tried to stand with him.  When <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Lesnar <\/span>did take <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Couture<\/span> down, he wasn&#8217;t able to hold him there.  The round ended with <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Lesnar <\/span>ahead, but <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Couture<\/span> seemed to be gaining momentum.  The second round saw more of the same when suddenly <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Couture<\/span> went down from a short shot to the temple.  <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Lesnar<\/span> followed him to the ground and began raining hammerfists.  Although <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Couture<\/span> wasn&#8217;t out, he clearly wasn&#8217;t able to stop the barrage and the ref stepped in to stop it. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Lesnar<\/span> showed more class in this victory than his last.  He thanked the fans, <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Randy Couture<\/span> and the man upstairs.  It&#8217;ll be interesting to see what lies in the future for both of these fighters.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just got home from watching UFC 91. It was a fun night with most fights turning out as predicted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mma"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2074\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}