6 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Crown Jewel 2019
2. A UFC-Length Title Match
No one was expecting a 60-minute broadway between Brock Lesnar and Cain Velasquez at Crown Jewel.
But what we got was a 2-minute “match” that featured a lot of tie-ups, close knee strikes and a flurry at the end with Cain getting a head kick before his ground-and-pound went south when Brock grabbed a Kimura for the tap-out.
On one hand, Lesnar losing to a man in his WWE debut would have been stupid. But to hype Velasquez as this badass who ended Brock’s UFC title reign and then fall in about 1/10 of the time that Daniel Bryan lasted with Lesnar is madness. (And Bryan had Brock more on the ropes than Velasquez did.)
What do you do with Cain now? He didn’t look impressive enough to sell him as a UFC killer in WWE. What fans are going to buy that off 120 seconds of “action” at Crown Jewel? This just throttled Velasquez down the card – if he’s sticking around WWE.