Human Strength

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Karelin was often noted not to only be "gym strong," but real-life strong as well. He once chest-carried a 600-pound refrigerator upstairs and downstairs his house 3 times in a row, and had often flung his 200-280 pound opponents like lightweights.

Karelin was, from the videos I have seen, an explosive type of guy like Lesnar. But Lesnar is only explosive in terms of foot wook and reflexes. Karelin is explosive in instantaneously flipping his opponents and maneuvering them in ways in which no normal wrestler regardless of wrestling art (Greco-Roman, Sumo, Sambo-BJJ mixed wrestler, etc...) could.

He is also noted to be a very fast learner as well. His original wrestling coach noted him performing double-suplexes and full-nelsons with full quality, all within three weeks of training.

If both received equal MMA training for two years, and both got themselves into a "fight-to-the-death" type of situation, I believe that Karelin takes this 8/10 times.

Lesnar is a tool to gain attention from an audience because of his outward personality and favorable aggressiveness, he is barely calm in most of his fights (a calm mind solves more problems), and he is not as explosive in close-quarters as Karelin is. Reply