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Lesnar/Velasquez Title Bout Set for Saturday
10/20/2010 12:00:00 AM | Wrestling
The 2000 NCAA Heavyweight Champion, Lesnar (5-1-0) has notched notable wins against some of UFC's elite fighters including Heath Herring, Randy Couture, Frank Mir and Shane Carwin. After winning his mixed martial arts debut against Min-Soo Kim in 2007, Lesnar dropped his first UFC fight to Mir in 2008 via submission. The currently top-ranked heavyweight in the world then rattled off four-straight wins against Herring (a unanimous decision in Minneapolis in August 2008), Couture (a TKO that earned Lesnar the UFC title in November 2008), Mir (who dropped a TKO to Lesnar in a rematch in July 2009) and Carwin (a second-round submission last July).
Now the Webster, S.D. native will take on his second-straight unbeaten opponent in Velasquez (8-0-0) - a fighter who has recorded a knockout or technical knockout in all but one of his fights.
UFC 121 will be broadcast live on pay-per-view at 9 p.m. CST. A portion of the undercard will be broadcast on UFC Primetime.
