Stepping-up heavyweight: Cain Velasquez

Heavyweight striker Cain Velasquez is now stepping-up in the rankings. With a dream to become the heavyweight champion he will do whatever it takes to beat every opponent he encounters to reach the number one contender spot.

Cain Velasquez is a six feet-one inch tall fighter weighing 240 pounds. He is a well rounded fighter holding a professional record of 7 wins without a loss. He is hoping to keep his perfect record after his fight with Antonio Nogueira on UFC 110.

Cain Velasquez is a well rounded fighter but he is mostly recognized for his striking ability. Cain with his powerful punches hopes to win his fight against Nogueira who is a well known Brazilian Jiu-jitsu black belter. Cain will hope to end the fight early and standing up. Though Nougeira is also confident in his stand-up game Velaquez will have a much bigger advantage over Nogueira. Velasquez being a heavy hitter will have the advantage because he will not strain so much to knock his opponent because he will just need one or two clean hits to win the fight. To accomplish that he will need to train harder to improve his boxing to make it sharper and more precise. He will also need to improve his ground game to match the BJJ skills of his opponent.

Now that the fight is closing in, Velasquez and his team is preparing him to fight a fighter who has a very high stamina and has a very long experience added to his arsenal. Velasquez is now rigid in his strength and conditioning exercise to become a mma pound for pound fighter that would match Nogueira’s level.

If Cain Velasquez is to win this bout he will surely increase his place in the rankings that would give him a chance at the title against Lesnar. Until the time that Nogueira and Velasquez will meet at the cage there is still in uncertainty in who will win but whoever might win this will surely be an explosive bout!