1. "NEW BREED"
Over the last 2 years, people like Dana White, Joe Rogan and others from ZUFFA did an impressive job of making MILLIONS of casual viewers BELIEVE that there was some kind of "NEW BREED" of HWs that ONLY EXISTED in the UFC and couldnt be found anywhere else. They made it seem like being bigger made fighters BETTER (Mir fell for this). They made it seem like Royce Gracie didnt come in there almost 20 YEARS AGO and build the sport of MMA on idea of SKILL>>>>>>>>>>>>>muscles like Brock and Carwin and the worst thing is the FANS BELIEVED THIS. THE MEDIA BELIEVED THIS. They made the whole country believe that a guy like Brock is "THE BADDEST MAN ON THE PLANET" That statement ALONE ERASES EVERYTHING ROYCE EVER DID (and Fedor Emelianenkos achievements), and takes our great sport back 20 years by making statements like that in 2010.
There needed to be a change. This couldnt fly for much longer. The "NEW BREED" term which was a Zuffa tactic to discredit guys like Fedor turned out to be a bunch guys with no muscle endurance (Carwin), no skill or heart (Brock), glass jaw and no cardio (Dufee) I love how the ball never lies and fights change everything and all those wont combine for 20+ career wins between the 3 of them. I love how Cain regularly fights at 240lbs and is 6'1 and proved that the best HWs dont have to be juiced faggots with no skill and put this sport where it should be in terms of what a HW champion is. What Im saying is 90% of American UFC fans, were NOOBS until last night. Big Up to Cain for setting the record straight on what a REAL HW CHAMP is.
2. "The best HW's are in the UFC"
Last night Cain made it very clear that there are only 2 great HWs in the UFC. They are Cain "El Terrible" Velasquez and Junior "Cigano" Dos Santos. Everyone else in the UFC is NOTHING SPECIAL. The best HWs are NOT in the UFC. This myth was juiced for almost 3 years and that DIED a cowards a death last night. Ive been saying forever that Cain will murder Brock and that Dos Santos comes right after Cain as the two best HWs in the UFC. Outside of that, UFC has a bunch of B-Level low skilled, glass jawed, unprofessional cardio, cage hugging and a few washed up legends like Big Nog and Mirko.
Im glad that Zuffa will need to take a different marketing approach now and will be forced to be more honest to their fans about whose badass and whos just a cash cow like Brock. Calling Brock "The Baddest Man on the planet" is terrible for the sport, dishonest to its fans, and counterproductive in every way possible. From now on we will be seeing who is truly great and the era of fighters like Brock, Carwin, Duffee being hyped as anything is OVER.