Just want to get this out there: This fight will bring the sport of MMA to the next level.
I know there are doubters and haters of the circumstances behind the making of this fight, but that's all in the past now.
Lets cut straight to the point(s) of why this fight will be so successful:
1) Lesnar carries a huge fanbase beyond MMA and superstar drawing power.
2) Couture carries a huge fanbase in MMA and will garner a lot of attention on his comeback fight after the legal battles with the UFC.
3) Brock is bigger, quicker, more powerful, and much younger. He hails from professional wrestling. Couture is the wile veteran, the elder statesman representing the sport of MMA. Lesnar is coming off a dominating performance against a top contender. Couture is coming out of a yearlong layoff after the most dominating performance by a 44 year old in a major mixed martial art event history. This is going to be a classic battle between experience and talent.
4) Randy should and will be the underdog. Not known for his JiuJitsu, Randy will have to find a way to either keep the fight standing by defending Brock's powerful takedowns, or go for submissions from his back---something he has rarely done in his career. Remember when Tito went for the triangle against Machida in the final moments of their UFC fight? Randy will have to use skills outside his usual repertoire to have a chance at victory. For those of you who bring up Randy's resume of dominating bigger opponents with his wrestling, it is sufficient to say that those opponents did not possess skills and power in the same league as those displayed by Lesnar in his MMA fights.
5) Should Randy win, his legend will grow and his match with Fedor will be inevitably one of the biggest drawing events in MMA based on HIS popularity alone. Should Brock win, he will have rightful claim to the throne of MMA heavyweight champion, and his match with the winner of Mir/Noguiera will be an equally big draw based on HIS popularity alone.
6) Regardless of who wins the fight, the UFC wins and wins big. This matchup will revitalize their heavyweight division and establish a legitimate pecking order for their heavyweight fighters. The heavyweight champion of the UFC will no longer be the champion simply due to a vacuum of talent.
7*) Dana White's ego will balloon to mushroom cloud proportions and he will announce the acquisition of all other MMA fight leagues on the surface of the planet immediately after the fight.
*But will still take at least two years to make the Fedor/Couture fight happen.