{"id":7487,"date":"2010-07-04T15:44:07","date_gmt":"2010-07-04T22:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=7487"},"modified":"2010-07-05T12:39:54","modified_gmt":"2010-07-05T19:39:54","slug":"inside-the-fight-game-lesnar-keeps-title-at-ufc-116","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/?p=7487","title":{"rendered":"Inside the Fight Game: Lesnar Keeps Title at UFC 116"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brock Lesnar Retains Title at UFC 116 with win over Shane Carwin<\/p><\/div>\n

By George Hernandez\u00a0<\/p>\n

UFC 116 was one of the the most action packed cards in recent memory Saturday night in Las Vegas as every fight ended in a submission or a knockout. Brock Lesnar retained his title by forcing Shane Carwin into submission in the second round, while on the undercard\u00a0Gerald Harris and Brendon Schuab had\u00a0knockouts and Richardo Romero came back to tap out “Kimbo Killer” Seth Petruzelli.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Lesnar comes back to keep title;<\/strong><\/p>\n

The fight started off just the way Shane Carwin wanted \u2013 both fighters on their feet and throwing blows. Lesnar got caught early as he was rocked in the first with a hard Carwin punch. Carwin swooped right down on him and tried to finish the fight. Lesnar went to the ground and was getting pounded out. Lesnar was able to throw a couple of up kicks to stay alive long enough to get back to his feet. He didn’t take\u00a0down Carwin, but Lesnar was able to stop the strikes and end the round against the cage in the clinch.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Carwin looked gassed going into the second round. Lesnar faked a punch and took Carwin right to the mat and got a half mount. Lesnar, trying to land a little ground and pound, got full mount and then jumped off when he locked in an arm triangle. It didn’t look tight at first but when Lesnar started sliding up he was able to have Carwin tap 2:19 into the second round.<\/p>\n

Lesnar (5-1)\u00a0is now the undisputed heavyweight champ and considered the number one heavyweight in the world. This was Carwin’s first fight that came out of the first round. He falls to 12-1.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Leben tapout Akiyama;<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris Leben came in ready to strike but Yoshihiro Akiyama wasn’t having none of it and took it to the ground. Akiyama tried submission after submission in the first round but wasn’t able to lock anything in and Leben survived. In the second round Akiyama got the fight to the ground again and was landing some hard shots. Leben was dazed and got back to his feet and Akiyama came in for the kill. However Leben had his distance and landed a hard shot that rocked Akiyama. Both fighters survived the\u00a0second round.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The third round Akiyama took the fight to the ground again but Leben was landing numerous elbows from the bottom. With only 25 seconds left in the bout Leben locked in a triangle choke and was able to tap out Akiyama in one of the best come backs of the year. Leben improved to 21-6 and Akiyama falls to 13-2.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Other bouts:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Chris Lytle def. Matt Brown\u00a0by submission – Round 2<\/p>\n

Stephan Bonnar def. Krzysztof Soszynski\u00a0by TKO – Round 2<\/p>\n

George Sotiropoulos def. Kurt Pellegrino\u00a0by decision<\/p>\n

Brendan Schuab def. Chris Tuchscherer\u00a0by TKO (punches) – Round 1<\/p>\n

Ricardo Romero def. Seth Petruzelli\u00a0by submission (armbar) – Round 2<\/p>\n

Kendall Grove def. Goran Reljic\u00a0by split decision<\/p>\n

Gerald Harris def. David Branch\u00a0by knockout (slam) – Round 3<\/p>\n

Daniel Roberts def. Forrest Petz\u00a0by split decision<\/p>\n

Jon Madsen def. Karlos Vemola\u00a0by unanimous decision<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By George Hernandez\u00a0 UFC 116 was one of the the most action packed cards in recent memory Saturday night in Las Vegas as every fight ended in a submission or a knockout. Brock Lesnar retained his title by forcing Shane Carwin into submission in the second round, while on the undercard\u00a0Gerald Harris and Brendon Schuab […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3326,1144,3329,3331,3335,3333,3325,3336,3334,3328,3327,2327,3332,3330],"class_list":["post-7487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-brendon-schaub","tag-brock-lesnar","tag-chris-leben","tag-chris-lytle","tag-danile-roberts","tag-george-sotiropoulos","tag-gerald-harris","tag-jon-madsen","tag-kendall-grove","tag-kimbo-killer-seth-petruzelli","tag-richardo-romero","tag-shane-carwin","tag-stephan-bonnar","tag-yoshihiro-akiyama"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7487"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7487\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7497,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7487\/revisions\/7497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/midvalleysports.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}