NEWARK, N.J. – If Shane Carwin keeps this up, he’s going to give mixed martial arts a bad name.
This is the sport that takes a lifetime to master. It requires hours upon hours of daily training. It humbles even the greatest of athletes and the strongest of men.
You don’t do MMA as a side job and win championships against the best in the world.
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At least, that was the conventional wisdom before Carwin came along and blew that school of thought to bits.
Carwin still holds down a full-time job as an engineer and is a married father of a newborn daughter. That’s plenty to make the average man weary at the end of a lengthy day. When other men are calling it a day, however, is when Carwin is just beginning.
On Saturday in the co-main event of UFC 111 at the Prudential Center, he showed he’s pretty good at his side job, too.
He needed just three minutes, 48 seconds of the first round to obliterate Frank Mir, as he had his 11 previous opponents, to claim the interim UFC heavyweight title and earn the right to face champion Brock Lesnar at UFC 116 on July 3.
Carwin had never gone beyond 2:11 in any of his previous professional bouts, and he entered Saturday’s fight with Mir hounded by skeptics.
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