Fans of Randy Couture (including some of us here at MMA Weekly) were devastated. Sometimes, watching too much Hollywood flicks could be bad for the mental health of fans of mixed martial arts.

This is not Rocky Balboa fighting the humungous Russian Ivan Drago (Dolph Lundgren) in Rocky IV. Only in Hollywood would a Stallone vanquish a Lundgren. Fact is, while Stallone destroyed Lundgren on the widescreen, he was actually flown to a hospital and stayed in the intensive care for eight days when Dolph Lundgren hit him in the chest during one of the fight scenes. Even Carl Withers (who played Apollo Creed—a character based on Mohammad Ali) announced that he was quitting after a having too much of Lundgren’s punches during one of the shooting! Simple physics tells us about mass and the force that goes with it. The bigger the mass…

Now, this is mixed martial arts—the real thing. And we have our MMA hero Couture facing that large mass of muscles from a guy who hailed from another planet…planet WWE. We thought it was Hollywood, and Couture would always prevail. We were dead wrong.

Brock Lesnar is not your regular massive 265-pounds, 6 foot 3 MMA warrior (as if there’s anything regular about such size) he also moves swiftly in a manner that defies gravity. No baggage in that hulk of a physiology, baby, just pure unadulterated working muscles powered by equally huge doses of adrenaline of the octane kind.

Most of us must have this foreboding at the first seconds of the fight when we see how Lesnar’s size dwarfed Couture inside the octagon. It’s different when you compare stats, where you just play with figures of the fighters’ size and height in your head. Reality has a way of slapping us back to reality once we see the massive Lesnar hover over Couture. It wouldn’t have made any difference if only Lesnar doesn’t move with the agility of a 200-pound warrior.

Couture’s plan was to stay on his feet, perhaps to deprive Lesnar of the weight and size advantage if they grapple on the mat. However, this plan simply gives Lesnar more opportunities to land his power punches. It’s a conundrum. You avoid your opponent’s weight and size but as a consequence, you expose yourself to his power punches with a stand up game.

And one of the power punches hits its mark.

Lesnar just made the world of mixed martial arts more exciting with his colourful demeanor and demeaning bulk. We at MMA Weekly say, he’s bringing the showmanship and drama that mostly accompanies the then highly patronized WWE.

UFC, and MMA in general, may not be Hollywood, but it can learn from the way it promotes itself.