1. Fedor Emelianenko (30-1, 1 NC) 2. Josh Barnett (24-5) 3. Brock Lesnar (4-1) In just five fights, Lesnar now owns the full UFC heavyweight crown and sports stoppages over the likes of Frank Mir and Randy Couture. However, despite his overwhelming performance against Mir at UFC 100, Lesnar's post-fight pro-wrestling theatrics seem to have overshadowed his victory. 4. Frank Mir (12-4) Mir was in his best shape in years for his rematch with Brock Lesnar at UFC 100. It wasn't enough, though, for him to duplicate his first-round submission win from February 2008, as Lesnar brutally pounded Mir out in the second stanza. 5. Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (31-5-1, 1 NC) 6. Randy Couture (16-9) 7. Brett Rogers (10-0) 8. Andrei Arlovski (15-7) 9. Shane Carwin (11-0) 10. Alistair Overeem (29-11, 1 NC)
UFC president Dana White said the following at "Into The Night with Tony Bruno":
"Shaq (O'Neal) texts and Twitters me all the time saying he wants to fight Brock Lesnar. He's been training for 10 years; Shaq's probably the only dude in the NBA that can actually fight ... I told Shaq, I said listen, 'Win another NBA championship this year and then we'll talk next year.'"
"Brock is a good friend of mine, I'm glad to see him win and a lot of people don't realize that he is a very intense person. He did go a little over the top after the fight, but I found some of his comments amusing. Brock's a good guy, he just got caught up in the heat of the moment. Like everyone he will get beat, but right now it seems like the UFC will have to put in two guys at once to beat him."
Frank Mir has claimed that Brock Lesnar is an embarrassment to the sport of MMA, and that he embarrassed himself and his children. Mir wants a rematch, claiming that he was "within half-an-inch of catching him".
Brock Lesnar is a regular guest on KFAN's morning show based in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minn. This morning he called in for a brief four minute interview to talk about Saturday's fight.
"It was an emotional (victory), I'll put it that way. That's for sure," he said.
A caller asked earlier if Frank Mir had said anything near the end of the fight to spark the intensity of the flurry of punches at the end. Lesnar responded: "Frank did a good job promoting the fight. It wasn't anything that Frank had said, you know. I said it before, this fight wore on me. Seventeen months. I'm a sore loser. I shouldn't be that way. I guess it was more the way I lost. I gave him the fight. Just how Frank carried himself after that, I think Frank you know took a cheap win against Nogueira. Nogueira was very sick going into that fight. Of course, when you're on the top of the card, main event pay-per-view, you can't just back out and say you're sick. I knew that Frank had too many Christmas presents handed to him and I had enough of it."
Regarding his post-win antics: "I went into some crazy mode where I was so happy. I guess I had a flashback of working for Vince McMahon, maybe. I don't know. [laughs]"
On Dana White's reaction: "He was thrilled as far as the fight was concerned. The only thing Dana was kind of a little upset about - when he came back to the locker room after the fight, anytime I mess with or mess with their sponsors, that was probably what he was little upset about."
On spitting out his mouthpiece and head butting the cage: "I was a rabid dog, man. I unleashed a fury. Like I said, it was a very emotional win for me. 17 months, an eight week training camp. There was a lot of build up for this. Frank and I were supposed to fight in May. He backed out and said he had gotten hurt. I had heard some different things. This guy was biding his time. Frank's a huge fan of the fight industry. He wanted to be part of the UFC 100. I felt like there was some things I wasn't being informed on. I just wasn't sure how everything was going. Finally, to get my hands on the SOB was just a blessing."
In closing, he said: "I want to thank the Minnesota fans and apologize for the hand gestures at the end for the young kids. It was unsportsmanlike. But I'm sorry. I was in a moment. I am the champion and I should act a little better than that. I was having fun. But it was inappropriate."