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In response to
"Ooof.....he might be done at this point. -- nm"
by
Will Hunting
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details....it's not as serious as last time, but he's still facing A. Surgery or B. Long course of anti biotics...
Posted by
Remlik (aka remlik)
May 12 '11, 14:26
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Dana White reveals that former UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar has diverticulitis again. This is the same sickness that kept Lesnar out of action for nearly a year.
As a result, Shane Carwin will step in to fight Junior Dos Santos in the main event at UFC 131 in Vancouver, Canada.
Brock Lesnar is on the call, and he apologizes to Junior Dos Santos and Spike TV for the unfortunate situation. He says that diverticulitis is a disease that never goes away, but he hadn't had any symptoms of it during the training camps for his fights against Shane Carwin and Cain Velasquez.
Lesnar started feeling symptoms again sometime during filming for The Ultimate Fighter. He adds that it is not quite as serious as last time.
Brock notes that he is NOT retiring from fighting. He says he just has to find the right solution to fix this problem. "This isn't the end of Brock Lesnar, this is a speed bump in the road," says Lesnar. "This is not the end of my career - far from it."
Lesnar was having abdominal pain, and he wasn't able to recover well from training.
Brock has the decision to either get surgery or deal with the disease through antibiotics; he has yet to make that decision. He still has to follow-up with his doctors before he makes a decision.
He says that he hasn't been as good athletically as he used to be since his first bout with the illness.
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