UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar is suffering with something related to an intestinal disorder and will probably require "major surgery," UFC president Dana White said in a report Monday on TMZ.Lesnar, who twice pushed a fight back recently due to a bout with mononucleosis, is facing a far more significant illness that is potentially career-threatening.
"There's a possibility Lesnar will never fight again," White told TMZ.
White plans to have Lesnar transferred to the Mayo Clinic for further diagnosis and treatment.
During the UFC 105 post-fight press conference, White declined to specify Lesnar's illness to respect the star's privacy, but did state that Lesnar neither has cancer nor AIDS.
Lesnar was scheduled to defend his belt against Shane Carwin at UFC 106 on Nov. 21 but the fight was postponed when Lesnar came down with mono. Both fighters received bout agreements for UFC 108 on Jan. 2, but that was postponed indefinitely earlier this month when Lesnar remained unfit to train.
"I can't really talk about it right now, but he is in rough shape. He's in really bad shape," White said Saturday. "I'm actually probably going to fly to go see him, and we're going to probably have to do some stuff to take care of this guy. He is not well, and he's not getting any better."
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I hope everything works out for brock.
As for dana, I really don't care what he says and wouldn't put it past him to use this as an oppurtunity for a huge future fight with a comeback storyline to fill his bank account with sheeps wool.
Dude your an ass!
damn dude that sucks ,,you just never know in this crazy world whats going to come up and bite you in the azs when you least expect it ,,,,, Brock you are one of my heros and i hope you get healthy again and continue to train in the long run ,,,,,Dana all i can say is that you are stand up guy if you are going to make sure he gets the best medical attention possible and i tip my hat to you Dana and the UFC for your helping hand,,,,,,,Get Well Soon Champ,, we are all pulling for you,,,,,,anyone who has negative feedback to the posts should just watch out for that bad karma , NY
"DIANA WHITE IS A STANDUP GUY"????!!!!RUBBISH!!!What a crock!!!Hes a slime.A lowlife meglomaniac.Get real dopey.
Yer a freakin retard!!!I dont like Lesner at all but wish him the best.Hes not gonna DECIDE to come back.Thats for someone who willingly took time off,hes sick.I dont know Dana,just like you dont so i cant comment on him personnaly,but it is stand up if hes paying the bills n lookin out outta his own pockets.
Does Dana look like Andre Agassi on roids?
Thought I heard on the news last night that he has Diverticulitis.
I HOPE IS OK CAUSE THE UFC KINDA NEEDS HIM AS A HEAVYWEIGHT
Somehow somewhere MDS is dancing in the streets. Every one of his articles were bashing Brock and saying how great Fedor was. Him and Maggie Hendricks. Oh well. Brock might never fight again. MMA moves on. But at least people will find someone else to make sexist jokes about his tattoo or about him being on steroids. Shame on people who are still wishing the guy bad things.
Dana. Give us Carwin vs. Velasquez for the title now that Brock is out of the picture. If he decides to come back, he can always fight the next champ.
Hope he gets well. The sport would benefit from a Lesner-Fedor fight. Probably will never happen.
I'd bet that he has C-Difficile. It is a nasty, hard to treat intestinal bug that often afflicts people while on antibiotics, which he likely was while fighting mono. It can cause dehydration and dramatic weight loss. It can be fatal. You hear a lot about staph infections, well C-Diff is just as bad. Patients often have their colon removed.
Get well, Brock, whatever your diagnosis.
You do not get put on antibiotics for Mono because it is a virus and antibiotics are mostly, if not only to treat bacterial infections. C-diff is pretty nasty though. It happens because when a person is on really strong antibiotics for a long time it wipes out their natural flora and causes them to have stomach pain and massive water stools.
Hope the guy gets better and is able to recover. He's an incredible athlete and I'm glad we have him in MMA.
Is he suffering from to many roids or Fedorfrite
KING, YOUR A VERY FUNNY BOY. WHAT ARE YOU ABOUT TEN?
Best of luck to u Brock. I hope u get well very soon so we all can watch you kick some ass. he is hard core and takes no crap from anyone!! I had mono asa kid when i was 9. all i wanted to do for 6 months straight was sleep. thank god i didnt have other things wrong with me like he did. the mono was bad enough. but when your 9 and u miss all that school....it wasnt so bad lol.
I've never had worms that bad.
Take his belt and give it to Frank Meir
dumbest comment ever.. you didnt even spell his name correctly dufus
your kidding, Frank is a sorry excuse for a fighter, and has none of the qualities that a champ should have. For as old as he is, he sure has a lot of maturing to do.