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In response to
"If you like wrestling stories...Dutch Mantell has a pretty good one on his site."
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Will Hunting
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here's the highlights of the Brock Lesnar story....sounds like he is very, very lucky....
Posted by
Remlik (aka remlik)
Jan 20 '10, 08:38
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UFC champion and former Wrestlemania main eventer Brock Lesnar appeared on ESPN Sportscenter this morning to discuss his health.
Lesnar said that he had been feeling sick "for the longest time" while preparing for a November fight against Shane Carwin. He noted he had missed several weeks of training due to the illness and his doctor couldn't figure out what the problem was, so he finally told his training camp that he couldn't fight Carwin.
He was originally diagnosed with mononucleosis, but Lesnar commented, "That didn't sound right. I'm pretty sure I had it as a kid or something, you know" and commented that he was devastated over backing out of the fight, so he went to Canada to do some hunting. He said he didn't feel right and was having severe stomach pain. He woke up one night with a 104 temperature and felt like "he was going into shock" with severe pain. He joked that he quickly realized after going to the hospital that he needed to "get away from Canadian health care" and returned to the States.
Once he returned, Lesnar was diagnosed with diverticulous and basically had a hole in his stomach. Lesnar was put on pain medication with the idea of healing himself, because surgery would have meant removing parts of the colon and putting Lesnar in a colostomy bag, "ending my career." Lesnar said he takes his hat off to them for waiting to do surgery because it saved his career. Just as he was being prepared for surgery, they discovered he was healing.
Lesnar noted he was fed intravenously for 11 days, losing 40 pounds since he had no food or water. He was released from the hospital and decided to get a second opinion at the Mayo Clinic. He said the Mayo Clinic agreed Lesnar was going to need his colon removed and that he required surgery. At that point, "I didn't know how long I was going to be our or how long."
Lesnar said as all this was going on, he was communicating to Dana White he needed surgery but he was hoping to beat the odds. He put 30 pounds back on in the gym and went back to his doctors this month. He said they were "dumbfounded" because they couldn't find any sign of any problems with his stomach. Lesnar commented that he actually had to go back for another CT examination to get double-checked before he came out and made any public statements.
Dana White was asked what it was like to watch Brock go through everything. White noted that it was a crazy thing to follow, because Brock would have been looking at a completely different quality of life if he would have gone through with the surgery. "Thank God for these doctors that were involved" for waiting to see how Lesnar would heal. White said Lesnar changed his diet and "got into some holistic stuff" and in the end, the doctors told Brock he had "a lottery ticket" and they couldn't believe the recovery. White called it a "miracle."
Lesnar was asked if there were any risks going back into the Octagon. Lesnar said he's had a few different exams and opinions and "there's no sign anything was ever in there." Lesnar said he believes the mind is a powerful thing and every day, he was put in a position and had to view his life in a different way. He said when everything is taken away from you and you are laying in a hospital bed, you see things change. He said he's always been in control of his life and his surroundings, so to sit in the hospital for 15 days was a huge wake-up call. Lesnar said he wanted to thank his wife and his family for their support for sticking by his side. He thanked UFC and his sponsors as well.
They made is clear Lesnar is still the UFC champion. White was asked when Lesnar would defend the title. White explained that since Lesnar was out so long due to injury, Frank Mir vs. Shane Carwin will crown an interim champion in November and the winner, as long as they come out healthy, will face Brock "champion vs. champion" this summer. He noted Brock could also fight the winner of Nogueira vs. Velasquez down the line as well.
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