Cageside Seats presents live coverage and play by play of UFC 131, which features hard hitting heavyweights Junior Dos Santos and Shane Carwin in a number one contender match. Also, in the co-main event, Kenny Florian makes his featherweight debut against Diego Nunes.
For the Countdown to UFC 131, pro wrestling name Paul Heyman worked with Shane Carwin, to bring out the best in him as a talker. See if the UFC's efforts paid off in the attached video.
With former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar withdrawing for his UFC 131 main event bout with Junior Dos Santos, only time will tell if Lesnar can come back from his second fight against diverticulitis. Although Lesnar may be out of the fight game, there's a bright future for the UFC's heavyweight division.
Casual Corner makes it's debut on Cageside Seats, catering to the casual fans of mixed martial arts with a variety of topics in the sport. In this edition, we look at UFC Fight for the Troops 2, an incredible promo for the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix, and Shane Carwin's interest in training with the legend Fedor Emelianenko.
UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez is fine with the creation of an interim title while he is injured, but who can face Junior dos Santos for the interim belt? Cageside Seats has their eye on one heavyweight who is familiar with interim titles.
Vince McMahon wants Brock Lesnar to face The Undertaker at WrestleMania XXVII. Is Lesnar using Vince McMahon as leverage to get a better deal out of Dana White?
"It's an interesting match-up. Both guys have great wrestling backgrounds, and I know from my own experience that my toughest fights were against guys with good wrestling backgrounds. If [Velasquez] can stay away and not end up underneath Brock early, not take any serious damage there, the longer it goes the better it is for Cain. He's one of those guys at that weight class who has an unlimited gas tank. He's not going to get tired. Brock is a huge athlete. Every time he's out there we see something else. In the [Shane] Carwin fight he took a beating and still came back and found a way to win. I think that was important for him. Hopefully he got a bunch of big guys to come in so he could practice being in that worst-case scenario, which is having a guy like Brock sitting on you and hitting you in the head and ramming you into the fence," Couture said. "Those are the things that a guy that size can really do to you. I think if [Velasquez has] prepared himself for that worst-case scenario, and has prepared himself to survive there, he'll be able to do that in the fight." Randy Couture talks to MMA Fighting about the matchup between Brock Lesnar and Cain Velasquez.
Inside we have a video interview where Frank Mir explains why he stopped training hard for his fight with Mirko Cro Cop and what he thought of the Brock Lesnar-Shane Carwin fight at UFC 116.
