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11-16-2009 07:20 PM:
On Saturday, Dave Meltzer reported that UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar has been hospitalized for health woes, which included mononucleosis. Things have gotten worse since then, as Lesnar will reportedly need to go under the knife for intestinal problems. Dana White is concerned that Lesnar may not ever fight again. The UFC has not revealed Lesnar's exact diagnosis, which was the champ's wish.
This is beyond a nightmare scenario for the UFC. Lesnar, who with only four fights won the championship belt, has been a marketing coup. As a former professional wrestler who was quite popular with WWE, he brought with him a built-in fanbase. Not only that, the UFC has been hit by a run of injuries and infections. Lesnar's frightening illness has been coupled with injuries to champions Georges St. Pierre, Anderson Silva and Lyoto Machida, as well as a staph infection to former champ Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. Shane Carwin, who was supposed to face Lesnar at this weekend's UFC 106, has an MCL injury.
Beyond the business end of Lesnar's sickness, it is a bizarre and sad thing to watch such an athlete be felled by sickness. Lesnar is a hulk of a man; standing 6-foot-3 and usually walking around at quite a bit more than his fighting weight of 265 lbs. At just 32 years oold, He is the last person you would associate with the word unhealthy.
This may open the door for the UFC to offer an interim heavyweight championship belt while Lesnar recuperates, but they won't be in a rush to do that, as Carwin and Nogueira aren't available to fight right now. If the UFC decides to put up an interim belt, hopefully Lesnar won't be concerned with that, and he will be focused on getting healthy.
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This is beyond a nightmare scenario for the UFC. Lesnar, who with only four fights won the championship belt, has been a marketing coup. As a former professional wrestler who was quite popular with WWE, he brought with him a built-in fanbase. Not only that, the UFC has been hit by a run of injuries and infections. Lesnar's frightening illness has been coupled with injuries to champions Georges St. Pierre, Anderson Silva and Lyoto Machida, as well as a staph infection to former champ Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira. Shane Carwin, who was supposed to face Lesnar at this weekend's UFC 106, has an MCL injury.
Beyond the business end of Lesnar's sickness, it is a bizarre and sad thing to watch such an athlete be felled by sickness. Lesnar is a hulk of a man; standing 6-foot-3 and usually walking around at quite a bit more than his fighting weight of 265 lbs. At just 32 years oold, He is the last person you would associate with the word unhealthy.
This may open the door for the UFC to offer an interim heavyweight championship belt while Lesnar recuperates, but they won't be in a rush to do that, as Carwin and Nogueira aren't available to fight right now. If the UFC decides to put up an interim belt, hopefully Lesnar won't be concerned with that, and he will be focused on getting healthy.
More...
Yahoo! Sports.
Cagewriter is an MMA blog edited by Steve Cofield.
