Brock Lesnar has Diverticulitis again, Junior Dos Santos will fight Shane Carwin at UFC 131
Posted on May 12, 2011, 04:19 PM by Anton Gurevich
UFC President Dana White announced this afternoon that the former UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar has once again been diagnosed with diverticulitis, and will be out of the long-anticipated UFC 131 event in Vancouver, Canada. Lesnar's UFC 131 opponent Junior Dos Santos will still fight, facing the fellow KO machine Shane "The Engineer" Carwin.
It's Brock Lesnar's second battle with diverticulitis. After his fight against Frank Mir at UFC 100, Lesnar was diagnosed with diverticulitis for the first time, which later cost him a year-long layoff after nearly ending his fighting career. Lesnar returned with an impressive victory over Shane Carwin, but eventually lost his title to Cain Velasquez at UFC 121.
Brock Lesnar is currently 5-2 in his MMA career, competing since 2007.
Brock Lesnar
• First and foremost, I want to thank the UFC, I want to thank Mr. White and I want to apologize to Junior dos Santos and Spike TV. This is an unfortunate situation for me. I dodged a bullet about two years ago with diverticulitis, at that time not knowing what the problem was. Diverticulitis is something that never goes away. It's something I've dealt with since the first occurrence and I've been battling it. It's something that is in your colon for the rest of your life.
• I've been dealing with symptoms for the last three months. I felt a little bit while I was filiming The Ultimate Fighter. The only way to treat the symptoms is by getting on antibiotics and allowing them to take their course and fight the infection.
• It didn't allow me to train at my full capabilities. It drains my entire body. All my resources went towards fighting the infection instead of rebuilding what I tore down in the gym.
• Its not as serious as last time, but it just didnt allow me to train the way I needed to train for a number one contender bout. I am forced with the decision whether to have surgery, or to deal with this for the rest of my life.
• Different thoughts come to mind, but it wouldn't be fair to myself or my family, or to the people that I have to get into the octagon in front of and perform against. I wouldn't be 100% on June 11th. I had to make a decision this week to allow the UFC enough time. My health is number one, my family is number one and it was a hard decision. I'm choked up about it and there's nothing I can do.
• (Since first coming down with the illness) I belive that I haven't been "that guy" (athletically). Even in my comeback fight against Shane Carwin, I felt ok, but I would say I was maybe 85 or 90 percent. Then the Velasquez fight was just me pushing myself to another limit.
• I'll tell you one thing, I'm not retiring. This isn't the end of my fight career. I believe there is a solution to every problem and I've just got to find the right solution to fix this problem. I love this sport and I love what I do. This isn't the end of Brock Lesnar, this is a speed bump in the road. This is not the end of my career, far from it.
Additional Notes:
- There is currently no timeline for Lesnar's return
- The UFC has not yet found a replacement for Shane Carwin's previous opponent, Jon Olav Einemo.
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Photo: UFC fighter Brock Lesnar at the weigh ins for UFC 116 at the MGM Grand Arena on July 2, 2010 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Francis Specker
Comments
**** **** ****, lesnar have it again..............,
lesnar hope you never got cold feet from that last ko seriously you got another hole in your stomach . dont look good for a young guy like you to be sick twice in 1 year with the same health issue . hope you get well . i think if you do come back i want too see you stand if you could stand up you would prob be the champ still .
Brock has difficulties being a huge pussssy !!!
haha come on people they definatley knew he wasnt gunna fight the whole time
Dont you remeber what Roy Nelson said he was right the whole time bought Lesnar pulling out come on this so obvious
hes a sissy and hes never gunna fight again hes got enough money why wud he fight to get his pussy smashed in again
diverticulitis is a medical emergency if symptoms are recurring again its time for a checkup thats why brock doesnt hesitate to go to the dr even though its still nt severe
someone calling a professional fighter a pussy from behind a computer screen is being a pussy..brock got beat up sure but at least he put himself out there in front of thousands of people in doing so..he got the shit beat out of him by 2 of the people that were being hyped as the next big heavyweights.. why don't you get out there and fight take a chance to win or lose in front of thousands of live people and millions at home..the only pussy here is you because you have done nothing with your life so you feel you need to talk shit on those who have
lesnar is not coming back for his belt !
I dont wish illness on anyone but brock did not like what happened to him in the cain fight and although he had all the toughest s.o.b talk, i think he knew it was going to be a replica in the santos fight. He has done exactly what big roy said, do the show then pull out.
He have weakchinolitis
lol
You have no class. Suggest you grab the cookies and cuddle up with your mamma on the two seater couch in your trailer watching fight re-runs you cannot afford to pay for.
Only an idiot would be so disrespectful to a man who despite his lack of stand up skills does put it all on the line, has beat Carwin, Mir and Couture...
You cannot be a fighter because fighters respect fighters and Lesnar is a fighter. If you argue against this then you discount former champs Mir and Couture as fighters.
You wont go there though because you're stuck under your mammas 140 kilo thighs.
You are disgusting.
this card keeps getting better and better. I am sensing "knockout of the night".
I know this is going to hurt some feelings but have in mind I am Joking and that he is not as bad as when he got it first...
That´s what you get for making chiken salad our of chiken chit...
I don't wish no hate on no man...hope he recovers.
It's a horrible thing to hear but Carwin and Dos Santos seems like an even better match-up.
Ya I agree, ppl mite not like Lesnar but hes a great fighter and entertainer sucks he got sick again.....JDS vs Carwin should be great tho
your large colon produces outpouchings or diverticula in respond to increase pressure(intraluminal pressure) everytime it undergoes peristalsis which is the cause of inflammation leading to diverticulitis its a hard fact that every time you have this there is a big chance of surgery resection which takes long to heal, lesnar will be our for a while. carwin should have a tune up fight first but with his recent match-up which is a big risk i find this match better. its hard to pick which side on and who ever win will give cain a challenge.
now i am going with carwin . carwin has great boxing some thing that lesnar needed .
I can't stand Brock but I hate to hear this news about him. Hope he can recover like last time.
ninja. come on, how can you call lesnar a great fighter. He isnt even a well rounded fighter, look at his record and he was lucky carwin gassed. I really dont understand how you can call him great.
The sign of a very big, strong, and powerful guy.
NOW PEOPLE FEELING SYMPATHY FOR BROCK!!!! HOLY SHIT!!!! TWICE IN A MONTH PEOPLE LIKE THE MAN!!!!!!
I'm pretty sure somebody called this. Can't remember who though??? I think it was Nelson.
im not surprised, i had colonitis and got it again a year later. It really sucks. But im more excited for this match up
I remember too, I also don't remember who said it... but it was this exact situation. Brock would do the show but be injured for the fight and Carwin would step in. I remember reading it thinking that would be an awesome fight.
Yeahh, i remember it too.
It was Nelson who said it by the way.
Just google it, i was going to post the link here, but that shit gets removed faster than the bouncer can get to you, when u don't have money to pay for all those lapdances:D
Yes, it was Roy. I thought the same thing initially, but he really wasn't as spot on as I thought. After thinking about it for a minute, he said Brock would walk off TUF to do Wrestlemania. Then he said it would most likely be Mir who replaced him, though Carwin was possible as well. So props to him for predicting Lesnar would have to pull out, but other than that he was a bit off.
simple standing in front of each other trying to knock each others heads off :)
absolutely terrible news, wish the big man the best, and a hopefully pain free recovery.
Sucks for brock but im hoping Carwin can pull off the victory.Cain vs Carwin would be a WAR! both great wrestling and great hands. I think shane is actually the only 1 that could possibly dethrone Valasquez
No way! JDS man!
I feel the difference in their cardio is too much
i wonder what happened, i thought he was on a new diet? I guess Diverticulitis is complicated
who's Jon Olav Einemo going to fight and will he still be on the main card? (i guess it depends on his opponent)
Brock was in a bad way last time when he had this. I wish the guy a speedy recovery and I hope he gets a chance to get back in the Octagon and prove his doubters wrong
First of all I hope for a speedy and successful recovery for Brock. As for the Carwin vs. Dos Santos fight, I think this is a great matchup. My only concern is that Carwin is coming off surgery and a long layoff. He's dangerous regardless of the situation and I tend to feel sorry for his opponents. JDS is tough and can take a punch though. The question is if Carwin can take a punch like what he may receive from JDS ;-). I doubt this fight goes beyond 1 to 2 rounds. BTW, these injuries are getting really annoying.
Sucks for Brock, screw Carwin though, JDS all the way.....
NO NO NOOOO!!!!! I hope he doesn't give up fighting because of this. If he gives up because of this every Lesnar nuthugger out there will talk for years and years how great a fighter he could of been if not for the diverticulitis. I want him to retire because he keeps on getting his face punched in and screaming "Stop, stop! No more!". Not like this, please lord, not like this!
And Einemo's involvement at the event is now up in the air. So that sucks to
Lesnar doesn't have the guts to face JDS.
LOL
Better match up then Brock vs JDS, don't really care if Brock fights again or not.
If it's anything like ulcerative colotis, then he has it for life and it will flare up from time to time.
JDS just got handed a tougher fight.
...wish Brock all the best.
@ edub
IMO - Carwin, with a gas tank, is, in all likelihood, the biggest, baddest thing in The UFC HW division.
With all due respect to the other HW's in The UFC, I don't believe there is anyone that can deal with Carwin and his power / wrestling; given that the cardio problems have been addressed. I think in order to find a guy that might be able to deal with him, we'd have to bring over HW's from StrikeForce. Carwin vs. Bigfoot or Overeem would be an interesting battle (for example).
I remember fans slamming the fact that Carwin was fighting a nobody on the same card, and I replied that Carwin was backup.
I think this will be a much better fight. Unless Lesnar could immediately get Dos Santos to the ground, I felt he would be hammered by Dos Santos's excellent standup.
As for Lesnar, he needs to avoid constipation which means fibre in his diet (eat his veggies) and avoid too much food which clogs the digestive tract. (heavy meat-only diet) Once the diverticula have formed, they don't go away--and surgery is not an option if he intends to continue in MMA. They would have to chop a big section of his lower colon--which would probably end his career.
The diverticula (pouches) become inflamed and are formed due to too much pressure in the lower intenstine--which is usually caused by excessive constipation. The constipation is caused by a bad diet--usually lacking in fibre--which helps the system run smoothly.
I am pumped for the Carwin vs. Dos Santos bout.
In the event that he needs surgery every effort would be made to have the surgery done via laparoscopy. This would ensure a speedier recovery
Laparoscopy reduces the severity of the act of operating and yes, does give a speeier recovery without all that hacking and slashing.
But the issue for Lesnar is not only the trauma of the actual operation but how much of his bowel will need to be chopped out and or/whether he will be carrying around a bag of his own shit.
Surgery for this ailment very often has serious risks and consquences, but if the bowel ruptures, contents of the bowel always cause an abdominal infection. Who knows how bad a version he has, but most versions will have an effect on his MMA career.
Hope Brock recovers well. Carwins definitley been thrown a bone here.
Its a shame aswell, becuase Brock was beginning to gain a new respect from some fans from TUF. Longer the fight goes, JDS probably has more of a chance.
Although cant see JDS knocking Carwin out.
If JDS wins, def shot at Cain.
If Carwin wins, will he get a shot at title again?
Thats really shitty to hear. Hopefully the guy can bounce back, I've always been curious to see who would win between Lesnar and Overeem
would brock's tummy still be hurtin if he was facing a wrestler/jits guy?
i'll go ahead and "weak" myself just to get the ball rollin.
Yeaah, i'm just a liite bit "sceptical" about this shit blowing up just in time before he's supposed to meet the best striker/boxer in the UFC.
Maybe his coaches and him realized that 6-7 months isn't nearly enough to become a decent striker, and to learn to get used to it...
Don't know, it could be all true but it smells a little fishy to me...
The thing with the diet, if he's had it and nearly died from it....
Then he should REALLY know what to eat and what NOT to eat, and be real careful with everything concerning it, right??!!
Its not as simple as "what to eat and what not to eat." Its a lifelong illness, unless you have extensive surgery performed. In which case, not only will he be sidelined for much longer, he could be unable to return at all.
Me being me I thought about that scenario too but I would hate to think that about anyone. Its a serious illness and I'm positive he's not ducking the fight.
Wish Lesnar all the best and a speedy recovery.
I've got JDS winning by decision if it goes past the first round.
Dos Santos is gonna give Carwin his first loss by KO
2nd round ko JDS
Sucks for Dos Santos !!! Carwin will be all over him..
Ugggghh I hate injuries! Brock was never one of my fav, but tbh he has grown on me over the years for sure through his fighting style (u knw the fight is gonna end dramatically when he's in there), his personaliy, his interviews and tuf...for some reason I'm always excited to see him fight..and deep down I actually always want him to win and succeed in this sport....i think he's presence is great in the ufc and would hate to not see him there again. All the best brock hoping for a speedy recovery.
not happy about someones illnesses but am happy carwin gets a spring up the ladder and another chance to prove himself
131 just got good
Thats what you get when you spend all winter hunting and gobbling down woodland creatures.
If he will always have this disease then he will always have an out against fights he does not like ... not saying this is the case here but everyone and his mother knows this is a bad match-up for Brock.
Wow...
Well, here's hoping for a double knock out.
As for Lesnar, yikes. Either he's having 'vietnam' type flash backs or he's really sick.
good point pigu i 100% agree. when i heard brock was gonig to fight in ufc i was rotfl but he proved me wrong and got my respect for the resons you stated. hes entertaining to watch fight and hope we get to see him fight again
Damn burritto done his guts!!