Brock Lesnar discusses Mir’s death comments
Written By: ProMMA Staff
UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar discusses the comments Frank Mir made about hoping he becomes the first Octagon-related death. Brock pokes fun at Mir about his wife apologizing for him, and also says he hopes Mir defeats Carwin, so he can try and shut him up once and for all.
Jim Rome rips Brock Lesnar
Written By: PROMMANOW
ESPN’s Jim Rome had a few words concerning Brock Lesnar’s recent post-illness comments. Rome also says Brock should not confuse the health care he received in some remote part of Canada with the entire health care system of the country.
Canada fires back at Brock Lesnar after UFC champ slams ‘Third World’ health care
Written By: Jesse Holland (MMAmania.com)
Props: The Globe and Mail
Quoteworthy:
“I take real exception to being referred to as a third-world country operation. We have state-of-art equipment here. We are hardly a one-horse operation. The attending physician was very qualified and very respected. He’s been in the business for more than 30 years. And he has the skills to diagnose a condition such as diverticulitis without a CT scan. We have checked this particular health record and were are quite confident that the correct diagnosis was given and the best course of treatment offered. I wouldn’t be so arrogant as to compare ourselves to the Mayo Clinic, they’re the experts. But I really take exception to someone giving us that kind of media coverage for their own political reasons. Who knows, maybe he didn’t like the bill.”
Carmel Olson, CEO of Brandon’s regional health authority, rebukes Brock Lesnar’s assessment of Canadian health care after the UFC Heavyweight Champion was hospitalized during a hunting trip due to painful symptoms stemming from his bout with diverticulitis. Lesnar referred to the experience to being in a “Third World” and subsequently segued into a cheap plug for his own views on U.S. health care reform. Any MMAmaniacs out there North of the border that can argue for or against the pasty-faced champ?
Brock Lesnar ESPN SportsCenter video talks ‘miracle’ health improvement with Dana White
Written By: Jesse Holland (MMAmania.com)
Breaking News: Brock Lesnar miraculously cured, will face winner of Carwin vs. Mir
Written By: ProMMA.info
UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar (4-1), accompanied by UFC President Dana White, appeared on ESPN SportsCenter this morning, giving his first interview since being sidelined last fall with diverticulitis.
Lesnar explained the details surrounding his illness, how he was first diagnosed with mononucleosis, then later, up in Canada, they realized he actually had diverticulitis, and diverticulosis. In short, the champ had a hole in his stomach.
The doctors said he would have to have a surgery that would end his career, and would result in him having to wear a colostomy bag. The only other choice was, if he could somehow heal himself naturally.
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For Junior dos Santos, Mirko Cro Cop is more dangerous than Brock Lesnar
Written By: Eduardo Cruz (MMAmania.com)
Props: Terra.com
Quoteworthy:
“Fighting Cro Cop gives me more jitters rather than facing Lesnar. Cro Cop is a guy very dangerous. If he just connect a left-kick the contest is over (laughs). That was a warring combat for me. I was on the edge all the time and very rapid because I worked out the speed to get away from the kick, even so, I left the Octagon injured. It was my hardest fight in the UFC and Cro Cop is one of the best fighters.”
Junior dos Santos talks about his most dangerous foe on the heels of yet another knockout victory — this time over Gilbert Yvel at UFC 107 back on Jan. 2. The Minotauro Team fighter revealed his confrontation against Mirko Filipovic at UFC 103 was the most difficult so far and also said he will only contend for the title if Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira isn’t the heavyweight champion. Where do you rank him in this division?
Frank Mir: Brock Lesnar may need to be stripped of the UFC heavyweight title
By: Jesse Holland (MMAmania.com)
Props: Cagewriter
Quoteworthy:
“If (Brock Lesnar) is going to be out for that long, should he even hold on to the belt at all? The interim title works if a champion is not able to defend his belt within a year-long period, you know he’s going to be out eight, nine months, you make the interim belt than he comes back after a year but as of now his last fight was in July. If he’s out a year from today’s date that’s a year and a half and at that point, I don’t think you can hold the belt ransom. They gave me about a year when I had my injury so I’ve been on that side of the coin and I was more than happy to relinquish the belt because I felt kind of selfish that I really couldn’t do anything with it. I don’t how successful he’s going to be coming back. That’s going to be a question over his head for a while. It wasn’t like he was a slick, technical fighter to begin with. A lot of his style went upon his brute power and strength. If Brock Lesnar is unable to put on the same kind of size as he had before … I don’t think he’s going to be very successful as a fighter at 245.”
Former UFC Heavyweight Champion Frank Mir understands the difficulty in trying to come back from a devastating physical impairment as he talks about the slow road to recovery for the ailing Brock Lesnar. Mir was stripped of his division crown after 14 months on the sidelines thanks to a motorcycle accident that shattered his leg and tore the ligaments in his knee. There is also the question of how well Lesnar will be able to rebuild his mass after having intestinal trouble in a weight class that gets bigger by the month. Should Lesnar turn in his belt? Or will we see him much sooner than everyone thinks?
UFC 108: ‘Evans vs Silva’ final line up now official for Jan. 2 in Las Vegas
By: MMAmania.com
Ultimate Fighting Championship cautiously announced the final line up for its traditional year-end pay-per-view (PPV) event, which is scheduled for the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada, on Jan. 2.
UFC 108: “Evans vs. Silva” has been marred by injuries for months, forcing the likes of champions Anderson Silva and Brock Lesnar, as well as big names such as , Vitor Belfort, Shane Carwin, Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Cain Velasquez, Rory Markham, Tyson Griffin, Sean Sherk, Carlos Condit and Gabriel Gonzaga, of the card.
Now UFC 108 will feature a reworked main event between former smooth-moving light heavyweight champion “Sugar” Rashad Evans and the hard-hitting Thiago Silva. British brawler Paul Daley is slated to battle Brazilian jiu-jitsu phenom Dustin Hazelett in the co-featured fight of the night.
Here is the official UFC 108 fight card:
Brock Lesnar sick in hospital with bacterial infection in intestines
By: MMAmania.com
UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar has been hospitalized with a bacterial infection in his intestinal tract and his fighting career could be at risk “depending on how serious it is,” according to remarks from UFC President Dana White in the latest article from the Associated Press.
Over the weekend, UFC President Dana White provided an alarming update on his condition, saying that he was “very, very sick” and that he was “not going to be getting well any time soon.”
Of course, conspiracy theories and hack medical diagnoses flooded the Internet. White didn’t reveal the mystery illness at the time to protect Lesnar’s medical privacy; however, it now appears that he’s let the cat out of the bag to tamp down the raging speculation.
Here’s a snip from White:
Lesnar and His Mysterious Illness Still a Question Mark
By: Dallas Winston (TheGarv.com)
Despite speculation that Brock’s ailment may be of a more serious nature, the UFC heavyweight champion’s camp revealed a small chunk of information regarding the concerns of his condition to MMAWeekly, which are rumored to be mononucleosis.
“Nothing life threatening like the reports, just some complications with his illness and he had to be hospitalized for antibiotics.”
A lack of detailed information and comments from Dana White after UFC 105 that Lesnar is seriously struggling with this illness have sparked rumors that his career may be on the line. MMAJunkie quotes White:
“[Lesnar] is in bad shape, and the reality is they don’t really know all that’s wrong with him,” White said. “He owns a bunch of property in Canada. He went up to Canada just to get away from his house, to go up there and just kind of chill out up there.
“He [expletive] dropped. He went down, and he had to go to the hospital. They ran every test on the planet on him, and they ended up finding out something else was wrong with him.”
Our best wishes go out to Brock with the hopes that he can soon make a healthy return.
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