i went over to a friends house last night to watch ufc 116 and the main event between brock lesnar and shane carwin. every fight on the card was pretty good which, in my experience, is unusual but lesnar-carwin was the one that was hyped and the one i was waiting on. the longest fight carwin had ever been thru had been 1:27 and i was interested to see how both of them would handle it if it went beyond the first round. they came out kind of slow but carwin immediately took it to him. he hit lesnar with a left and lesnar went down against the cage and immediately "turtled". he tried covering his head and his face as best he could and offered nothing in the way of defense. carwin tried his best to put an early end to and hit him repeatedly. lesnar was battered and bloodied and any defense he did offer was very feeble. in my opinion, if that would have been another fight the referee would have stopped it. he finally made it to his feet and his next line of defense was running like a girl. he made it through the end of the first round and i was wondering if carwin had wore himself out trying to finish it. the second round started out very slow but lesnar bull rushed carwin and got him on the ground and within a minute he had him in a choke hold and carwin tapped out. lesnar won that fight by brute force and strength alone. lesnar put him in a submission hold that he had probably been doing on wrestling mats since junior high school. the bottom line is that lesnar won. it really doesn't matter how. he just won. i came out and checked espn.com and the punch stats tthey had listed were mind boggling. lesnar attempted 2 power strikes and carwin attempted 78. lesnar attempted 1 submission hold and it was successful and carwin didn't attempt any. i still believe that in any other fight, the ref stops that fight in the first round. but this wasn't any other fight.