After a quite long retreat due to a back injury, Shane Carwin (12-1) is all pumped up and more than ready to go back to the octagon to continue his MMA pursuit. He is set to face, though it has yet to be confirmed by UFC, the French Heavyweight Cheick Kongo (15-6-2) at UFC 131 on June 11 which is reportedly planned to take hold in Vancouver, Canada.
Carwin, after a successful back surgery, came back to the gym and started training, early in the beginning of the year. Early reports says that he was initially listed to fight Roy Nelson at UFC 130 but later switched by the UFC management giving the card to Frank Mir instead. He is then later rescheduled to go against Kongo fronting the Brock Lesnar and Junior Dos Santos' Heavyweight title eliminator match.
Carwin is coming back from a disappointing lost against the former Heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar not being able to run off with the Heavyweight title at UFC 116 last year. He came out strong in the first round and pounded Lesnar on the ground with vicious strikes in rapid succession that could have almotst finished the game. He was an inch away in clutching the Heavyweight title but wasn't able to extend that intensity in the 2nd round and caught himself in an arm triangle. This fight was his first lost in his entire mixed martial arts career. It was also the only fight out of the 13 that has ever made it to the 2nd round so far showing how deadly Shane Carwin is as a fighter. He is probably one of the hardest puncher in the Heavyweight division and has an excellent ground game as well, he only needed less than 5 minutes to either submit or knock his opponent out. And what most men like him wants, who came out from an intolerable defeat, is to come back twice as deadly as he was, so his upcoming fight is something that all his fans will definitely keep track.
Carwin, after a successful back surgery, came back to the gym and started training, early in the beginning of the year. Early reports says that he was initially listed to fight Roy Nelson at UFC 130 but later switched by the UFC management giving the card to Frank Mir instead. He is then later rescheduled to go against Kongo fronting the Brock Lesnar and Junior Dos Santos' Heavyweight title eliminator match.
Carwin is coming back from a disappointing lost against the former Heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar not being able to run off with the Heavyweight title at UFC 116 last year. He came out strong in the first round and pounded Lesnar on the ground with vicious strikes in rapid succession that could have almotst finished the game. He was an inch away in clutching the Heavyweight title but wasn't able to extend that intensity in the 2nd round and caught himself in an arm triangle. This fight was his first lost in his entire mixed martial arts career. It was also the only fight out of the 13 that has ever made it to the 2nd round so far showing how deadly Shane Carwin is as a fighter. He is probably one of the hardest puncher in the Heavyweight division and has an excellent ground game as well, he only needed less than 5 minutes to either submit or knock his opponent out. And what most men like him wants, who came out from an intolerable defeat, is to come back twice as deadly as he was, so his upcoming fight is something that all his fans will definitely keep track.
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