Brock Lesnar knows how to pull off a comeback, writes Josh Gross. In his first fight since a health scare, the champ withstood a first-round beating to defeat Shane Carwin at UFC 116.
…Brock Lesnar apparently has a thing for comebacks. What better way then for the UFC heavyweight champion to return from a one-year layoff during which doctors thought the 32-year-old giant, one of the most physically impressive athletes of all time, may never step in a cage again. Absorbing 47 XXXXXL-sized punches on the floor in the opening five minutes against the 6-foot-2, 265-pound, unbeaten-in-12-fights-that-never-made-it-out-of-the-opening-round Shane Carwin, Lesnar displayed the type of will reserved for only the very best. In all, the 35-year-old Carwin landed 57 punches in the opening round. And while the blows Lesnar took with his back to the canvas were dangerous, it was the 10 heavy lefts and rights that put the so-called “interim” UFC heavyweight champion — a title created while Lesnar faced the uncertainty of two weeks worth of eating through tubes from the diverticulitis that opened a hole in the lining of his stomach — in position to win early. Retreating to the fence, Lesnar almost…
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