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UFC NEWS: Brock Lesnar seriously ill, return indefinitely postponed


Nov 14, 2009 - 10:12:12 PM

By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar is seriously ill and his return has been pushed back indefinitely. According to Dana White at today's UFC 105 post fight press conference, Lesnar collapsed while at one of his properties in Canada and was rushed to the hospital, where the doctors found more wrong with him than the mono he had already been diagnosed with.

According to White, "[Lesnar] dropped. He went down, and he had to go to the hospital. They ran every test on the planet on him, and they ended up finding out something else was wrong with him."

White went on to say, "He is not good. He is very, very sick, and he's going to be out for a while...He doesn't want to talk about it publicly, but he's in bad shape. He's not well. He's not going to be getting well anytime soon."

It's unclear just how long Lesnar may be out for, but there is a possibility that not only is his illness career threatening but even worse. That is not known at this point, but Lesnar has been flown to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN, to continue tests to determine what's going on with him.

White said he does not want to strip a Champion of a Title he's rightfully earned, but they may need to look at crowning an Interim Champion once again if Lesnar is held out even longer.

Link to MMAJunkie.com report

Penick's Analysis: This is sounding more and more serious, and regardless of your opinion of him to this point you've got to hope for his well being and hope that whatever is going on with him gets figured out. His fans especially want to see him get better so they can watch him fight again, and right now that part of it has to be put on the backburner until all of this gets figured out. Hopefully this won't end up being something life threatening, and if it isn't hopefully it won't be career threatening either.

[Brock Lesnar photo by Wade Keller (c) MMATorch]

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mma619
15 Nov 2009, 01:37
dana white says we shouldnt believe what mma.tv says about fighters like fedor or rogers being good. white and the ufc are really the ones hyping up mediocre fighters and putting them in main events. who did lesnar beat to get a title shot? name one good contender carwin beat to get a title shot? then you have all these no bodys/scrubs come out of the ufc reality show and get so much hype as if they are great fighters. (jardine,bonner, giffin, leben, ect) fedor is with a doubt the best heavyweight of all time. true mma fans will vouch. most ufc fans arent true mma fans. these ufc nuthugers only enjoy ufc for the brawls. they need to get out of their trailer park, get there minds off the tv and go out and learn what mma really is. i think strikeforce brings something different for real mma fans. theres no hype/misleading there. what about all the controversial calls ufc has had lately. griffin over jackson, machida over shogun, franklin over w. silva. strange how the loser was a pride fc veteran. ufc has gone political like boxing, and thats one reason i wont waste money ordering another ppv. the other reason is that they will show it on spike tv for free anyways. i just saw ufc tonight and thought couture was given the decision. how couldnt they give it to him when he has 5 more fights under contract. ufc sucks!
Boles
15 Nov 2009, 06:06
Hey Jamie, drop a couple of ban hammers, would ya please? jeez.
Jared
15 Nov 2009, 16:41
"most ufc fans arent true mma fans", "these ufc nuthugers only enjoy ufc for the brawls. they need to get out of their trailer park, get there minds off the tv and go out and learn what mma really is", "ufc sucks!"

Hilarious. Nothing you said presents you as a knowledgeable fan. Saying someone's "not a true mma fan" doesn't make you a true mma fan, just like calling someone stupid doesn't make you smart. If you want to present well thought out, respectful opinions, great. If you want to flame, degrade and stereotype people while promoting your anti-UFC agenda, why don't you head over to Sherdog.
Jo's
16 Nov 2009, 00:57
It's the insane amount of steroids he uses thats playing up now. Thats why the rather dont want to give a diagnose publicly.
space_cowboy
16 Nov 2009, 14:39
After talking to a few people with some knowledge, this sounds a lot like Hep C to us. If he has been using dubious supplements, there would be a real risk. Just putting it out there.
Randy
16 Nov 2009, 17:13
Let's hope and pray this dude gets better. Fight or no fight, I don't want him going down to somethng like this.
If you read this Brock, hang tough brother.
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