The biggest news coming out the UFC 105 post-fight press conference have nothing at all to do with UFC 105.
Brock Lesnar isn’t getting better. In fact, he’s getting worse, much worse. Lesnar took a trip to Canada for a little R&R while he recovers from mono, but ended up collapsing and was rushed to the hospital. The doctors ran tests and discovered there’s more wrong with him than just mono, but it sounds like either no one is saying what it is yet or they haven’t completely figured it out.
At Saturday night’s UFC 105 post-event press conference, UFC president Dana White said the mononucleosis that had been bothering Lesnar is still present, but the champ is now suffering a new set of illnesses, as well.
“I am worried about it,” White said. “I can’t really talk about it right now, but [Lesnar] is in rough shape. He’s in really bad shape.
“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.”
White said he wasn’t sure how serious the new illnesses were and whether they could be career- or even life-threatening.
“I don’t know,” White told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “I’ve got to get him to one of these really good hospitals with really good doctors to figure out what’s wrong and how we get him better.”
Yeah, very serious stuff. Apparently, cancer and HIV has been ruled out, but it could still be something just as serious. We just don’t know yet.
What that means for the UFC title is anyone’s guess including Dana White’s at this point, but it’s becoming increasingly likely that Shane Carwin’s next opponent won’t be Brock Lesnar.
That leads me to the second part of this post. Just like last November, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira has come down with another staph infection, but this time it’s too severe for Big Nog to make his fight at UFC 108.
UFC president Dana White revealed the news following Saturday’s UFC 105 post-event press conference to a small group of reporters.
“[Nogueira] got staph infection, bad, to the point now it’s in his bloodstream, and he’s probably going to have to be hospitalized and intravenously given the antibiotics,” White said.
Now Cain Velasquez needs an opponent for UFC 108, and the UFC is running out of options. With Lesnar out indefinitely, Shane Carwin is the obvious choice, but last we heard he was getting an MRI for a nagging knee injury while he waited for Brock. No word yet what the results were, but if it isn’t too serious, I’m sure that’s the fight the UFC will be looking to book for Jan. 2.
The amount of injuries and illnesses suffered by UFC fighters in this last stretch of 2009 truly is astonishing. How bad could the UFC use Fedor Emelianenko about now?
Update: Brock’s trainer, Greg Nelson, confirms to Josh Gross that Lesnar’s illness is not life threatening.
Update 2: Just reread the MMA Junkie story on Big Nog, and I totally missed the part where it says Shane Carwin underwent knee surgery so he’s not an option for UFC 108. Awesome.
Update 3: Shane Carwin says he didn’t have knee surgery but his injury looks bad enough to keep him out of UFC 108.
Update 4: Whatever Brock has isn’t life-threatening, but Dave Meltzer says there’s a possibility it may be career-threatening.
Nothing new on yesterday’s major UFC news. Brock Lesnar is out indefinitely with mono and another illness that he doesn’t want out. Two things to note to ease some fears: One, whatever he has is not said to be life-threatening, although there is a possibility it could be career-threatening, or at least derail him for a long, long time. And second, whatever he has besides mono may not be as bad as people are speculating, because although he doesn’t want it out what he has, he also didn’t want it out that he had mono.
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Let’s face it, Brock was pumped up with steroids and toxic shits for too long (maybe even before WWE). He won’t make it long in this business whereas Fedor is living a simple and healthy life from the beginning. Fedor rules!
I feel bad for Minotauro. This second staph infection in a row could be a career ender. I had a minor one 2 years ago and the amount of antibiotics kills you already. When it goes in the blood, you’re already not far away from dying and the therapy is amazingly heavy.
MMA is pride thank you for your valuable insight as always. There is no lack of conspiracies in your world. Surprised to see you didnt call out Lesnar for ducking Carwin…
C’mon, we all now that you don’t become a WWE superstar and a freak of nature with fresh water. I’m sorry for the dude but sooner or later it will be payback time.
Oh, and one more thing: Fedor rules!
Fedor rules!
So Gonzaga and Dos Santos for the interim title?
FEDOR
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Well, this is the word on the inside as far as Brock Lesnar goes. Brock Lesnar is suffering from a massive asshole infection. His asshole is almost completely destroyed because the infection went “unnoticed” for such a long time. I will supply updates when I get more info.
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LOL, in all seriousness, I think he’s probably got Lyme disease…that can mimmick mono and the dude lives out in the boonies and hunts deer.
@BreakUrNeck – You watch too House
Brock never juiced it, he joined wwf out of his college wrestling , and they test for roids in NCAA wrestling im sure.
Fedor is the man
…gonzaga dos santos??? that shit is crazy talk Carwin is going to be the next champ after he knocks out Cain like he was originally suppose to do this saterday
FEDOR!!!!!
How is Carwin gonna knock Cain out when he has a bad knee?
All I know is I just spend 400 bucks on shitty 108 tickets.
na, I’m actually a doctor and a deer hunter..ya gotta spray down for them ticks., lol.
I tink they should have a fight with carwin and Velasquez for the interium title until we hear something else about lesnar. I hust hope he can heal from this and not have it be career or life threatning.
Camarada não seu por mas gosto de ver jigante apanhas , não é por nada Lesnar vc vai cair no tatame rapidinho cara.