5 UFC fighters who would beat Brock Lesnar

#3 Stipe Miocic

Stipe Miocic represents a nightmare match for Lesnar

His recent loss to Daniel Cormier notwithstanding, former UFC Heavyweight champion Stipe Miocic represents the closest fighter the UFC has to Cain Velasquez in his prime – a powerful wrestler with equally heavy hands and a gas tank that seems to last for days. Cormier beat him by surprising him with heavy shots from inside the clinch, but before that, Miocic was looking as good as any Heavyweight had done in UFC history.

If Miocic and Lesnar were to clash inside the Octagon, the smart money would be on Miocic every time. We saw in Lesnar’s fight with Velasquez in 2010 that he has very little answer to someone who’s capable of either stopping his takedown or getting up from underneath him, and Miocic’s takedown defense currently stands at an impressive 75% of takedowns avoided.

On the feet, it’s simply a no-contest. Miocic has stood toe-to-toe with – and defeated – strikers as good as Junior dos Santos and Andrei Arlovski, while Lesnar’s record against heavy hitters like Velasquez and Overeem leaves a lot to be desired. This fight would likely be a re-run of Lesnar’s one-sided loss to Velasquez – ending with the WWE champion on the wrong end of a TKO.