Brock Lesnar Remains Sidelined With Illness, UFC 108 Return in Doubt
UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar, who last week withdrew from his scheduled title defense against Shane Carwin at UFC 106 due to an extended illness, remains sick and unable to train, according to an update from Yahoo Sports’ Kevin Iole
“I’m not sure exactly what it is he has, mono or whatever, but I know that he was sick and couldn’t get a good, hard workout in,” Greg Nelson of Minnesota Martial Arts Academy told Yahoo Sports. “There’s a big difference between making an appearance and smiling and waving at a football game and going out and doing what he has to do in his training.”
According to the report, Lesnar-Carwin remains targeted for UFC 108 on January 2 in Las Vegas, but could be postponed until February is Lesnar is unable to resume training soon. If the fight is again pushed back, UFC 108, one of the UFC’s traditional blockbuster events, is likely to be left without a championship main event, as lightweight title-holder BJ Penn fights less than one month earlier at UFC 107 while Lesnar, light heavyweight champion Lyoto Machida, middleweight champ Anderson Silva, and welterweight title-holder Georges St-Pierre are all expected to be unavailable.
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What an interesting turn of events ever since Quinton decided to retire, If he didn’t decide to retire, the main event of UFC 108 would have been BJ Penn v Diego Sanchez, hmmmmmmmmmmm
Now after stating that, it is unfortunate that Lesnar is still sick, and we all know he trains extremely hard and most likely takes more than 8 weeks to get prepaired sooo I can see it from his point of view
If Rampage was fighting at 107, Penn and Sanchez would have been at 105. As long as I’ve been following the sport, I haven’t seen as many withdrawls and injuries within a 2 – 3 month period.
fr couldn’t agree more looks real fishy
Does this mean that illness is the new UFC heavyweight champion?
LMAO! yes I believe that is the case
Maybe a Velasquez or Minotauro vs Carwin interim title fight?
Hi. I’m new to the site and found it off twitter.
did you talk to Brock’s camp or are you just pulling this directly from the Yahoo Story?
Ok guys, Lets just say I am a fighter(who lurks around this site often) so I get being sick and I know how hard it is to train for a fight so I completely understand the need to pull out of a scheduled bout due to illness. However, Why the hell is it that we can’t get a straight answer as to what the problem is. Different people in his own camp have said everything from it’s not H1N1 to maybe it is the Swine Flu to maybe he just caught a bug he can’t get rid of to he’s just really sick with the regular flu and now F*N Greg Nelson says he has no idea what’s wrong and maybe it’s Mono?? WTF guys? I don’t know how they do things out there in that ass backwards place he calls home but here us city folk can go to the doctor, have some tests done and usually within 72hours we have the results. Do any of you believe that he pulled out of a UFC pay-per view event because of sickness and they didn’t “require a doctors note”, so to speak. I don’t really believe in conspiracy theories and he may be ill but He & his team should know more at this point and they’re are not letting on….
Given that his employers are satisfied with the reasons to the point of allowing the fight to be moved, I would say that it is a legitimate reason.
How many people do you know hate going to the doctor? How many people do you know are sometimes too proud to go to the doctor if they get a little sick? How many people do you know are too darn stubborn to go to the doctor because they don’t feel well?
Besides, no one in Brock’s camp has any responsibility to tell the public anything. This is an issue between employer (UFC) and employee (Brock).
and to that point it is technically illegal to release any information regarding health of some one to the public…
Mono would be the most likely candidate as during flu season it would be chalked up as a case of influenza and a faulty flu test (they’re highly unreliable). Mono would be one of the last things tested. Your always told when you hear hoof beats think horses not zebras. Looks like it could be a zebra though.
He has had blood work done, and he, Brock, knows what it is, they have just chosen not to release it to the public, and I don’t think he should have to if he doesn’t want to. Brock seems like a relatively private person, why else would he live in BFE, Minnesota?
well if he knows what it is and still believes he can’t fight I trust his judgement
i dont think it matters what he has, if he cant train right to fight the oh so dangerous shane carwin then the fight needs to be post poned. frank mir said it best in an interview i saw and said theres no way he would fight shane carwin on short notice or if he didnt have the proper training.
This is BS for Carwin. Why should he have to put off fighting and earn some money just to wait months and months for Brock to get better.
Forrest Griffin gets to fight again this year and only a few months and after getting his ass handed to him.
What does Forrest Griffin have to do with any of this?
Details, details…
The UFC’s way of ****ing with stubhub, I am losing way too much money, wow.. get your **** together.
Yeah, they have nothing better to do with their time and energy. Suuuuuuuuuuuuure……….
Lesnar is unable to fight at 108 because he’s got swine flu or mono or the T virus, so Shane Carwin needs an opponent.
I wonder how quickly Todd Duffee’s “undisclosed injury” would heal if he were offered a Carwin fight?
Not accusing anyone of anything here, particularly in Lesnar’s case, just throwing it out to the collective…
But look at it from Carwin’s perspective; go from fighting a dangerous ’somebody’ for the belt, to fighting a dangerous ‘nobody’ for nothing. Duffee would just be another vague notch on Carwin’s already somewhat unimpressive bedpost if he wins, and a loss would have him on the outside looking in faster than you can say ‘Martin Kampmann’.
I completely agree that from Carwin’s POV he shouldn’t take any fight that isn’t for a belt, seeing as how thats what he signed for.
I’m just thinking that with the rash of injuries and illness striking so many UFC fighters, Dana White and Joe Silva might be forced to make some matches just to cover all of the event slots, if you follow…
T-virus haha I think he would turn into tyrant 103, but i think Carwin could actually rip limbs off of lesnar if brock was a zombie.
you would think that a person of Brocks stature could have shoved some people out of the way back in October to be first in line for a flu/h1n1 vaccination. Magic Johnson pretty much got his HIV cured or something…guess he’s against vaccinations or somethin.
Seeing as how Lesnar lives out in the middle of nowhere and avoids human contact [outside of his family] by his own admission and as frequently as possible, he maybe figured he wouldn’t be at risk of infection from swine flu or whatever he’s got.
Unfortunately I’m sure his wife is more sociable, and maybe his kid has day school, and I know from having a 4 year old goddaughter that day schools are like breeding grounds for sick little kids, which come home and infect their parents [and godparents] almost immediately…
thats true…plus all the poeple you could come into contact with while training…H1N1 is airbourne so all the heavy breathing could also increase risk. I got a flu shot for the first time in 5 years just because several people in my office already got it…h1n1 still isnt avialable. sucks.