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[Chad]

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Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar has been on the shelf since losing the title to Cain Velasquez back in Oct. 2010 thanks to a second bout of the deadly intestinal disease, diverticulitis.



Shortly thereafter, Lesnar had surgery to have a whopping 12 inches of his colon removed. He's now officially "back" and ready to get back down to the business of doing the two things he loves best:

1. Fighting.
2. Tracking down live animals and killing them.

He'll attend to the former on Dec. 30 when he battles Alistair Overeem in a heavyweight match-up of massive proportions at UFC 141 in Las Vegas, Nevada.

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I don't know anything about Overeem. Wikipedia has this to say about him ...

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Alistair Cees Overeem (born on May 17, 1980) is a British born Dutch mixed martial artist and kickboxer, signed to the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He is the former Strikeforce Heavyweight Champion, Dream Interim Heavyweight Champion, K-1 World Grand Prix Champion, and made history by being the only fighter in combat sports to hold a world title in both MMA and K-1 kickboxing at the same time. As of November 2010, Overeem is ranked as the #3 best heavyweight mixed martial artist in the world by Sherdog, #3 by MMAWeekly, #3 by Yahoo! Sports and #2 by FightMagazine.com.

His MMA record is 35-11. He has some wins over a few noteworthy people, and most of his losses are to legitimate fighters like Antônio Rogério Nogueira and Chuck Liddell to name a couple. I found a few of his better fights posted online and this fight seems to have great potential. One of the things I really like about Lesnar is that he is a true heavyweight in a weight class where most of his opponents aren't. Overeem is 6' 5" and 260 lbs. Both of these guys have knockout power on par with a semi-truck. I refuse to pay $45 for a Pay-Per-View no matter what the event is so I'll be "bargain shopping" for the video online the next day. But if I paid that kind of money for stuff like this I would totally do it for Lesnar vs Overeem.

[Dave]

I'll split it with you, but you have to fly to New York.

Will you spend $300 to save $23? (crossing fingers that you will)

[Chad]

We did get a LED TV as a wedding gift. It would be well worth your while to come here. I'll even split the difference with you, you fly here and I'll get the PPV. I'll even spring for pizza. We can plan a road trip to the one and only state liquor store in Utah to get your beer. There's mountains here too. Like serious mountains. There's one across the street from me. I dunno what I'm supposed to do with it, but it's there and it's huge.

[Dave]

You should project the fight onto the mountain itself. "Brock on the Rock," you can call it.

[Chad]

Then I could sue him. I dunno for what but it'll be a good time.