Looking at Brock Lesnar’s performance against Randy Couture on Saturday, it’s hard to believe many reporters called him the next Kimbo Slice.

With a record of 2-1 in professional mixed martial arts competition, some critics made the most of very little ammunition in Lesnar’s video library.

No matter how hard Dana White tried, he couldn’t shake the Slice comparisons.

“If I had hair, I’d pull it out,” the UFC president quipped.

But any parallels between the titanic champion and his backyard-bred counterpart were erased at UFC 91. Lesnar’s size and strength bridged the gap in experience between he and Couture, setting the stage for a unique changing of the guard in the UFC’s inconsistent heavyweight division. Lesnar is the greenest—and possibly the most promising—champion in its history.

In their eight minutes together, Couture felt every single pound of the forty-five between them. There was no room for him to be elusive.

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THE UNDEFEATED HEAVYWEIGHTS

Shane Carwin 9-0-0  6′ 4″ (193 cm) 265 (120 kg)

THE UNDEFEATED LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHTS

Rashad Evans 16-0-1 5′ 11″ (180 cm) 205 (93 kg)

Thiago Silva  13-0-0  6′ 1″ (185 cm) 205 (93 kg)

Lyoto Machida 13-0-0  6′ 1″ (185 cm) 205 (93 kg)

Goran Reljic 8-0-0 6′ 3″ (191 cm) 205 (93 kg)

THE UNDEFEATED MIDDLEWEIGHTS

Johnny Rees 10-0-0 6′ 0″ (183 cm) 185 (84 kg)

Demian Maia 8-0-0 6′ 0″ (183 cm) 185 (84 kg)

Nate Loughran 8-0-0 6′ 2″ (188 cm) 185 (84 kg)

THE UNDEFEATED WELTERWEIGHTS

Dong Hyun Kim 10-0-1 6′ 3″ (191 cm) 170 (77 kg)

Paul Kelly 8-0-0 5′ 9″ (175 cm) 170 (77 kg)

Ben Saunders 5-0-2 6′ 3″ (191 cm) 170 (77 kg)

THE UNDEFEATED LIGHTWEIGHTS

Gray Maynard 5-0-1 5′ 8″ (173 cm) 155 (70 kg)

Dale Hartt 5-0-0 5′ 10″ (178 cm) 155 (70 kg)

Koscheck has come a long way from his Edinboro University wrestling days, when it was all about ground control; this is a well-rounded mixed martial arts fighter who destroyed Dustin Hazelett at UFC 82 with strikes, and who defeated Diego Sanchez while focusing on a disciplined standup attack.

And love him or hate him, Josh Koscheck is his own man. He’s a strutter, he knows how to fish a nymph on a cold river, he takes acting classes under Alan Autry (“The Heat of the Night”) in his spare time, and he’d like to be a UFC commentator down the line. He owns his own clothing company, Mar Clothing, because “I’m the type of person that can’t have a boss, man.” So he’s got to be his own boss.

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“Most of the tickets for UFC 83 were sold in the first 24 hours of our UFC Fight Club presale, and the rest were gone within one minute of the public on-sale today,” said Dana White, UFC President. “I’m excited to say that this event is a sellout, and the fastest one in UFC history, so it’s safe to say we definitely will be back in Canada after this inaugural event.”

Fighting out of Long Island, NY, Matt Serra (16-4) shocked the world a year ago by defeating St-Pierre by first round knockout for the UFC Welterweight Championship. Ever since then, many have speculated on the outcome of a rematch between the two. Serra was set to take on fellow The Ultimate Fighter® Season 6 coach Matt Hughes in a fight on Dec. 29, but he suffered a herniated disc in his back during training and had to pull out of the fight. Now fully recovered, Serra is ready to head to Canada and defend his crown against the man he took it from at UFC 69.

St-Pierre (15-2), fighting out Montreal, Quebec, Canada, became the UFC welterweight champion at UFC 65 when he stopped Matt Hughes in the second round. After losing his belt to Serra in April of 2007, St-Pierre rebounded in spectacular fashion, defeating Josh Koscheck at UFC 74 by a three round unanimous decision, and submitting Hughes in their rubber match for the 170 pound interim title at UFC 79. Now the former champion looks to regain the welterweight crown in his home province and prove to his fans and his country that he is the best 170 pound fighter in the world.

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