According to TMZ.com, UFC President Dana White is in the process of trying to get current heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar into the Mayo Clinic for diagnosis and treatment.
Brock Lesnar is so sick, he’ll be going to the Mayo Clinic so doctors can figure out what to do — but it will probably require major surgery … UFC Prez Dana White tells TMZ.
White tells us Lesnar — the UFC heavyweight champ — is “very, very sick” with some sort of intestinal disorder, although listening to White, it sounds a lot more serious than that. White says the condition will require “major surgery.”
White is going to visit Lesnar in the hospital and is trying to get him transferred to the Mayo Clinic, one of the most renowned medical facilities in the world.
White says Lesnar — formerly of the WWE — was diagnosed with mono more than a week ago and was “bummed out” that he had to cancel the fight and went to Canada to rest. White says Lesnar collapsed in Canada a week ago today and has been hospitalized ever since.
White acknowledges the current condition is not mono but he will not be specific. White says the condition is not HIV or cancer.
And, White tells TMZ, “There’s a possibility Lesnar will never fight again.”
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Dang! Thats intense
are we ever going to get to see brock crush car-lose.
I would say make an interim title but how many healthy hw’s do they have?
i think Brock is screwed, as far as i know there is no cure for “phearacarwin” and Brock has a bad case of it lol. for real though, the guys at Zuffa must be pulling there hair out right now, Brock-out (maybe for good), Lyoto-not ready any time soon, Anderson-just had surgery, GSP-just came back and now has to wait for Hardy, and BJs fighting soon. it looks like its going to be a while before we see a legit title fight (aside from Penn/Sanchez) so who is gonna sell P.P.Vs for them? if they use too many top contenders they run the risk of making a mess out of the title scene.
I hope brock is going to be okay – Dana White does have a reputation for being a sensationalist so the comments about NEVER fighting again, take that with a grain of salt.
yeah Dana saying Brock may never come back is a win/win for him, if Brock doesnt come back then he already told everyone that and if he does come back they can sell it like “everyone said Brock would never fight again but look how he overcame the adversity!”
Dana is a promoter… lolz … he is looking for an opportunity to do an interim HW fight – the winner of Cain V Nog gets to fight Carwin.. interim belt goes to the winner, unification bout takes place May or June 2010 …. BET ON IT – bet on Chuck Liddell bailing them out here shortly on one of their big “FAIL” cards that have no big main events.
So word on the street is that Lesnar trained for quite a while with mono before he went and got checked out and diagnosed.
Side effects od mono can include hepatitis B, a ruptured spleen, severe liver damage and potential diverticulitis.
Well Doc, in that case… Dana could be telling the truth for once, Brock may actually never fight again.
Huh.
yeah, surprising that something coming out of Dana’s lips is actually near the truth for once.
rumors this morning are that Brock just has an intestinal bacterial infection. no confirmation on that yet and my guess is that it may still be more, but we’ll find out soon enough I’m sure.
so lets play Joe Silva for a minute, what do you do with the heavyweight division? do you hold the title up with your fingers crossed that Brock will return? do you make an interim title fight? if so, who and why? i would say hype a small tourney (like Nog/Mir and Brock/Randy) with the guy who stays undefeated being the interim champ, if Brock eventually comes back they can have a unification bout and if he doesnt they can promote the interim champ to the real champ. i just dont know who i would put in my little tournament.
Big Nog Has staff so he’s out. Carwin had knee surgery so he’s out. I guess have the winner of Mir/Kongo fight the winner of jr santos and gonzaga fight. I know Velasquez should be in the mix but he isn’t set to fight do to Nog staff.
really the top 4 should be Nog, Velasquez, Mir and Santos. It doesn’t matter Brock will be back. just hope he’s 100%.
Some sites are confirming my previous prediction that there will be an Interim HW title bout.
I am telling you two things will happen, an interim HW title fight, and Chuck Liddell back in action in 2009 – or early 2010.
yeah man im sure we’ll see a HW interim title before all is said and done, and with Chuck i think if they dont use him there dumb. Liddell has huge drawing power and right now thats exactly what they need, Chuck vs. Kimbo on the New Years card would probably sell by it self (a sad as that is lol) and they wouldnt need to dig to deep in the wallet to give it a supporting cast. its too bad Wand has moved to middle weight because Chuck/Wanderlei 2 would be epic.
I hate to sound like a douche but has anyone considered that some of this Lesnar illness could be played out a little further by Dana White to gain some sympathy for the guy. I never put anything past White’s marketing ploys.
If Brock has something like sepsis (where there is a rupture in his stomach or intestine causing it to leak out into his abdominal cavity), he could be facing death. Otherwise, this is all very strange for a young, super athletic healthy man to come down with such a serious illness so quickly. Even if it a bacterial infection, I never heard of one that would end someone’s career.
yeah there is always the chance that Dana noticed some people showed concern when Brock came down with an illness and couldnt fight so he came up with the idea of making Brock seem worse off so even more people would get on the get well soon wagon. BUT something like that could be ill advised because if its discovered to be a scam both Dana and Brock could end up being hated five times more then they are now.
I would be fine seeing Junior Dos Santos fight any of those guys. I mean, he probably won’t fight Nog because of the “same training camp” friendship deal. Where’s Buentello? is he back yet or what?
let’s get Todd Duffee in there too…
I just don’t see how any of this adds up. I totally can see some DW sensationalism here. I work in a hospital and basically it is obvious when someone strolls in if their diseases match their lifestyle choices.
For example, I’m not suprised Pamela Anderson has Hepatitis.
I don’t believe a straight arrow guy with a stick up his *** like Lesnar associates himself with unsavory characters (drug addicts, dealers, prostitutes etc.)
I also assume his diet is super strict and restrictive.
They do say that extreme over exercising can lower one’s immune system and cause illness but that relates to colds and stuff NOT bacterial infections which are probably ingested.
but from what i understand it all started from him getting mono and not having it dealt with. i got mono once as a teen, and i got it from my buddies Mom! i sh*t you not! and here is how, my buddies Mom when to visit his brother and while she was there they shared some ice cream (same spoon) so he gave it to her, a few days later i drink from a coffee mug with a chip on the rim at his house, boom now i have mono, turns out a chip in a glass is a wonderful place for bacteria to hang out even if you thought it was clean. so getting a random illness, under random circumstances is possible. but i do know what your saying like a heroin addict getting HIV is not a big shock but a nun getting an STD is, and faking something to keep Brock from fighting for awhile could make a big “comeback story” sell lots of pay per views.
nah RJ i dont see any faking happening or sensationalizing by Dana.
Look at Mitrone on TUF, guy might have a concussion, maybe not but hes definitely messed up to be dizzy and vomiting, etc.. Now the first thing everyone says is “hes faking” that really pisses me off because i know what its like to be sick. If you have a big cut or abrasion on you people can see it and realize your injured. The irony is that internal injuries are MUCH more severe than surface injuries or even broken bones and THOSE are the ones that people often consider to be faked.
Why would Mitrone decide to start faking a head injury? so he can make everyone watching the show think hes a btch? so he can eliminate himself from the competition after a win? so he can lose face and money for what? because he doesnt want to train or something like that?? i SERIOUSLY doubt it.
Most people who call others out for faking usually havent experienced any health problems or havent had anyone close to them with problems. They might even think that certain conditions are a myth and these people arent “tough enough” to walk it off.
Thats where the whole faking it thing stems from, ignorance.
Amir, the ailments dont necessarily have to do with a persons lifestyle or their diet, everyone is just different. For example, a friend of mine recently had really bad abdominal pain every time he ate. He also had his appendix removed a few years earlier so it wasnt that, he figured it was some kind of ulcer or something.
Between trying to tough it out and being afraid of doctors he waited about 2 weeks before he went to the hospital. They took some tests and it turned out that he had a bacterial infection and inflammation in his intestines. So they gave him some medication for it while he waited for test results and further scheduled tests to happen. He had a reaction to the medication which caused his kidneys and liver to begin shutting down so then switched medications and he couldnt eat for a few days because his organs couldnt filter it properly.
Turns out hes now diagnosed as having colitis, of the family of crohns disease. He always ate good homemade food everyday, its just a matter of his genetics or something, it was inevitable.
My point is that Lesnar obviously has some problems, its not hype and theres nothing he can do about it. The fact that hes that big and eats and processes so much food everyday (in my opinion) cant be normal for a human being. He himself is not your average dude, but if he had an operation on his intestines, this is definitely a serious condition.
Lesnar had surgery to help solve a bacterial infection in his intestinal tract that helped cause the postponement of Saturday’s fight against Shane Carwin and left his long-term future in doubt.
“The family was worried big time, they were freaking out,” White, the UFC president, said Wednesday. “Brock was in big pain, he was hurting.
“We don’t know if he’ll ever fight again.”
White cautioned that things could still go either way. He could fight. He could not. No one knows at this point. Lesnar was resting Wednesday at his home in Alexandria, Minn. and was scheduled to visit the famed Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. early next week for a battery of tests.
“He had a hole in his intestine,” White said. “The (stuff) was leaking into his stomach. That’s what was causing him so much pain. That and he had abscesses.
“The doctor told him he hasn’t been right for a year. His immune system has been trying to fight this thing and that’s why he was susceptible to getting sick.”
That likely explains Lesnar’s original diagnosis of mono. He had been weakened to the point that he was unable to train for the Carwin fight for much of October. That prompted the original delay in the fight. Then last week, the intestinal problem flamed up and Lesnar was hospitalized.
“We’ll find out more next week,” White said. “We’re going to send him to the Mayo Clinic for a couple of days. I don’t know what to say. It’s looking better now than last week, but what that means, I don’t know.”
White said no decision would be made on setting up an interim heavyweight championship until he knew how long Lesnar might be out.
Yea, this totally changes everything. This is what I suspected and stated a while back. If he has a whole that is leaking stomach acid into his pleural cavity, he most likely could develop an extremely high fever and if not treated properly, could die.
To give you guys an example:
A friend of mine was not feeling well and went to the hospital with stomach pains. The radiologist mis-diagnosed her CT. She goes home. Two days later, she is in the emergency room. The stomach acid causes infection, after several scans and tests, the rupture can not be found. She is put into an induced coma and starts battling for her life. The doctors give her a 5% chance of surviving. This battle goes on for 6 months. After all of the tests, treatments,tracheotomies, collapsed lungs, she survived. It has now been almost 2 years since all this happened and she still walks with a cane, copes with partial paralysis, etc.
They never found the leak and she still comes back every few months for surgery to repair the damage to her intestines. A total nightmare and life changing experience.
It was mind-boggling how quickly her condition deterioratedin the first few days of the illness.
Good luck Brock…I hope you have the best medical care out there.
Brock Lesnar’s longtime friend and Jiu-Jitsu coach tells TMZ the hospitalized fighter WILL return to the Octagon — and he guarantees Brock will return to battle condition in the next six months.
We spoke with Rodrigo “Comprido” Medeiros — a 7-time World Jiu-Jitsu champ — who tells us the reigning UFC heavyweight champ “is getting better and that is the most important thing … He will be fine and be fighting again within 6 months.”
Medeiros adds, “I can just say that the heavyweights can stop laughing and get ready to start crying because the champion will be back soon.”
As we previously reported, Lesnar had been hospitalized due to a mysterious intestinal disorder. UFC president Dana White claimed the illness is so severe, Brock may never fight again.
So far, Brock has yet to release a comment himself.
Glad to hear it, I anticipate his return to fighting form, I do have to wonder if this sickness, the weight loss, the lack of training ect, will cause a permanent loss in mass or muscle that could effect him size wise.
It’s no opinion but fact at this point that Brock has lost considerable mass since leaving the WWE and coming into legitimate sports. Without ‘help’ I am wondering how long he can maintain 265-280lbs of muscle being as sick and without exercise for 3 months to 4 months.
I am sure he will still be powerful, but will it be more than enough to overcome guys like Carwin and Cain as in the past?
That’s really bad news.
I hope for Brock Lesnar’s speedy recovery and
that he returns to the Octagon quicker than
most people anticipate.