Brock Lesnar Collapses - In The Hospital

UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar is seriously ill in hospital after collapsing in Canada, UFC president Dana White said Saturday.

"He's in rough shape, he's in really bad shape," White said Saturday after UFC 105.

"He is not well and he is not getting any better. . . . He's very, very sick and he's going to be out for a while. He's got a lot of problems."

Citing mononucleosis, the 32-year-old Lesnar was forced to postpone a title fight against Shane Carwin scheduled for UFC 106 on Nov. 21 in Las Vegas. The fight was pushed back to UFC 108 on Jan. 2, but that too has been postponed.

"He's got mono and he's got something else wrong with him. I know what's wrong with him, he just doesn't want me talking about it," White said.

"He doesn't have cancer or AIDS or anything like this, (but) he's got some problems, man."

White said Lesnar was currently in a hospital in North Dakota. The six-foot-three, 265-pounder owns property in Canada, White added.

"He dropped up there and had to go to hospital," White said.

He said Lesnar may have to go to the Mayo Clinic or another top hospital "to figure out what's wrong with this guy."

"He's not going to be getting well any time soon," White said.

The UFC has other concerns with fighters. White said the newly announced UFC 108 main event between Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira and Cain Velasquez is off because Nogueira has a serious staph infection.

"(It's) bad, to the point now that it's in his bloodstream," White said. "He's probably going to have to be hospitalized and intravenously given antibiotics."

Carwin is also out after undergoing knee surgery.

"It's crazy," White said of the injuries and illness.

This sucks. Maybe they should have Carwin vs. Valesquez for the interm UFC Heavyweight Championship and sort out the true champ when Brock is better.

Didn't I mention Carwin/Velasquez already?

As noted earlier this morning here on the website, UFC Heavyweight Champion, Brock Lesnar, is in worse shape than initially expected.

Lesnar's UFC 106 fight against Shane Carwin was postponed to UFC 108 on October 27th due to Lesnar contracting mononucleosis. Yesterday, UFC President Dana White told reporters at the UFC 105 post-fight press conference tha a new date for the Lesnar/Carwin fight will have to wait - Lesnar appears to have more than just mononucleosis and the outlook is pretty dire.

"He's in a hospital up in North Dakota somewhere right now," said White. "He went to Canada and some bad stuff happened to him, so we've got to figure it out.

"He doesn't want to talk about it publicly, but he's in bad shape. He's not well and he's not going to be getting well anytime soon."

It is unknown at this time what Lesnar's additional illness is but Dana says it's not "aids or cancer".

I'm thinking H1N1, but it's got to be something very embarassing? if he doesn't want to publicly say what it is.

babaganoosh wrote:

Didn't I mention Carwin/Velasquez already?

You did and I was just agreeing with, while taking credit for your idea because that is how I roll You did not say the part about interm championship though, that was all me

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- Dana White told TMZ.com that Brock Lesnar is battling some type of intestinal disorder that will require "major surgery."

Brock Lesnar's illness is serious enough that UFC president Dana White said his career is in jeopardy. "There's a possibility Lesnar will never fight again,"

What, this is crazy.. I don't quite understand why Brock wouldn't want to tell people what was wrong. Unless it has something to do with drug use?

Either way, it's terrible, and my thoughts go out to him, his friends, and his loved ones. I just hope he manages to pull through.