Lesnar’s Training Partner Chris Tuchscherer Talks About Illness, Decision to Withdraw
Brock Lesnar’s training partner at Minnesota Martial Arts Academy and fellow UFC heavyweight Chris Tuchscherer talked to the Las Vegas Sun about Lesnar’s illness and his decision to withdraw from his November title defense against Shane Carwin, which has since been rescheduled for UFC 108 on January 2:
“He actually practiced (Sunday) and thought he might be feeling alright. He said, ‘Wow, I think I’m doing OK today,’ (Monday) he got here and it was the same old stuff — fatiguing right away, not being all there.
After practice we were all sitting around, we were actually going to come back later at night to work out again, and he basically told us, ‘Hey guys, I’m going to pull out of this thing.’
There’s a lot of [H1N1] cases…around here. There are a lot of confirmed cases of it. I don’t want to say it’s that for sure, but it wouldn’t surprise me.
He was very excited for this fight. He was always in good spirits. I could tell he was kind of let down today and he told us he felt really bad.”
Tags: Brock Lesnar, Chris Tuchscherer
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Bummer that he can’t fight sooner but Jan isn’t that far away. At his size, he needs to be able to train correctly or he wont make weight or be able to fight if he does.
Unrelated and off topic, I have been trying to register for the forums for days now and I get a Page not found error when I click on “reguster”.
Good point. Even though fans are bummed that he had to postpone, how pissed would everyone be if he didn’t make the weight and it became a 3 round non-title fight? Better to cancel it now and have a proper fight with no controversial results.
Better to wait til he’s healthy. Don’t want NO “I wasn’t 100% for the fight” bull crap!
Oh yeah Carwin only has a punchers chance anyway. There is no way he out wrestles Brock.
You’re right there! Carwin’s fights have all ended in the first round, but why? Could it be that he’s only fought suckers?
Except for Gonzaga, YES
Regardless of who he has fought, I think you throw Carwin in the octagon with either Velasquez, Kongo, Rothwell, etc.
And he would KO all of them IMO
You also have to consider his size, power, and his wrestling background.
He was a D2 National Champion in 1999.
He has a pretty good wrestling background.
Not as good as Brock’s…but still, pretty good.
He may beat Kongo, but he would not KO him. If anything Kongo would KO Carwin
I don’t think Lesnar is unstoppable. I definitly think he COULD BE, but from what I have seen, he is trying to improve at MMA and not just sticking to what works. He is staying CLOSE, but he ventured a bit out of the absolute safe zone in striking a bit with Mir (if memory serves me right…if not, call me out).
My point is the more he “tries” the more he exposes himself to another person’s game. In the long run, it will make him a true monster, but in the short run, it might leave him with an L.
Only time will tell. I am on the Lesnar bandwagon at this point. I think he needs to keep his mouth shut, but at HW, he is the man.
Yes Lesnar is really sick…. just watch this video from the Viking’s game taken only a week ago. Tell me how sick he looks to you?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBIgvbt2YQo&feature=player_embedded
I cant watch video here, but were you being sarcastic or does he really look sick?
Well he didn’t look his usual in-yo-face self. He actually looked a bit under the weather.
that game was a week ago and you can’t judge standing and making an apperance with rolling for 5-15 mins….Markus no disrespect man but u ever grappled with a chest cold?? If u have u know ur gassed in the first min…so a guy like lesner that trains catch wrestling if he has any sort of flu like systems it isn’t allowing him to train properly, I don’t blame him for sitting back especially for a championship fight when ur sick ur sick a flu is a lot different from a muscle strain….
I would have a comment about him staying home eating chicken noodle soup or something if I was his mother, but I’m not, so I will make no such comment. Nope…no such comment from me…
Swank,
No disrespect taken and I can understand your point. However plenty of fighters get sick during training. We are all human. It happens. Some notable title defenses I recall in recent years where either champ or challenger were sick the days leading up to the fight were GSP vs Serra and Nogueira vs Mir. Both GSP and Big Nog fought through illnesses, win or lose. There are plenty of other examples.
If there was some sort of diagnosis other than “flu like symptoms” I think I would be a little more understanding. But from what I have read and heard of Brock, he is content going 6 to 12 months between title defenses. I was looking forward to this fight as much as everyone else. Disappointed that a professional athlete has to cancel a championship fight due to “flu-like” symptoms a month before the fight.
understandable man and it sucks cause Nog with the staff loosin to Mir and Gsp sick and injured loosin to serra has to way on fighters minds man….I just know rollin with a cold or flu really sucks but I am with you I wanted to see this too and leaves the ufc in a tough spot to try to find a main event for the card either way I’ll be watchin
funny both fights you mentioned both guys lost in terrible fashion…
flu-like symptoms describes many different infectious diseases/ other harmful things including… black widow bites, different strains of influenza, mononucleosis, etc… Plus like I said on a previous post, standard flu tests are unreliable.
Plus Flu-like symtoms is also a disease in and of itself attacking the lungs. From what I’ve heard breathing is important in a fight.
Not to mention he can’t cut weight because of having having to rehydrate and cutting a lot of weight before a fight leads to a greater chance of concussion, not to mention destroys any cardio he could have built up in 3 weeks.
Also, having flu-like symptoms requires a person to stay extra hydrated, and would cause problems with weight cutting, then the weight cutting would cause problems in overcoming the symptoms.
Of course, it’s easy to sit back and say “awe it’s just the flu” but bear in mind, hundreds, even thousands of people die from the standard flu every year.
Finally a website with real MMA fans. I was reading the comments on mmafanhouse.com and most of the idiots on that website where talking about Brock and steriods. It is good to see that the fans on this website are more educated about the sport and not just a bunch idiots who know nothing about MMA.
Glad you like the site, welcome.
rich you will find on here most people are educated and u won’t see too much bs the moderators take care of that u should become a member and check out the forums u will find alot of educated topics my friend
I think this is good for Carwin gives a little more time to prepare.
I don’t know about that vid. When I had H1N1 if i did so much as take a deep breathe I would cough my a$$ off. Unless that horn is phony and you don’t actually blow in it and it makes that sound through electronics their is no way he could have blown that hard without coughing. Actually the fact that he didn’t cough at all throughout that video leads me to beleive he doesn’t have H1N1. Now could he have something else other than swine yes, and in his credit he does look a little pale and clammy.
Actually, I was thinking that while the video was embedded to make the “case” that Lesnar was fine and had an alterior motive for backing out of the fight, but IMO he looked like a cup of weak tea and not ready to roll.
Hanging with your wife and kid at a football game takes nowhere near the wind he’d need to properly train for the fight, let alone to actually face Carwin at 100%…
Have you seen the Vikings play? Watching them play may be more stressful than training for a fight
if you take notice of lesnars eyes in the video compared to his eyes when he fights and trainsing you will notice that his eyes are puffy… also his voice sounded nasal…
i dont see lesnar backing out because of some BS reason… the guy is a true athlete…
Just as an FYI on this whole swine flu thing, I found out that back in New Jersey some poor high school kid died from the disease after a couple of days or something.
Thats some scary sh!t right there…
I got a hit of the live virus up the nose yesterday. Stung a bit, but I’m not dead yet!
What might also help this whole, “Lesnar off of 106″ thing” is if SpikeTV stopped hyping the Lesnar-Carwin fight during commerical breaks.
Or was that just my cable service?
Nope, that happened here too.
Still happening on Time Warner commercials to sell PPVs.