“We Don’t Know If He’ll Fight Again,” Dana White On Brock Lesnar

UFC president Dana White rushed out to see heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar on Tuesday at a Bismarck, N.D. hospital. Lesnar had to undergo surgery after collapsing this past weekend due to a bacterial infection in his intestinal tract.

“The family was worried big time, they were freaking out,” White, the UFC president, said Wednesday. “Brock was in big pain, he was hurting.

“We don’t know if he’ll ever fight again.”

White cautioned that things could still go either way. He could fight. He could not. No one knows at this point. Lesnar was resting Wednesday at his home in Alexandria, Minn. and was scheduled to visit the famed Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn. early next week for a battery of tests.

“He had a hole in his intestine,” White said. “The (stuff) was leaking into his stomach. That’s what was causing him so much pain. That and he had abscesses.

“The doctor told him he hasn’t been right for a year. His immune system has been trying to fight this thing and that’s why he was susceptible to getting sick.”

That likely explains Lesnar’s original diagnosis of mono. He had been weakened to the point that he was unable to train for the Carwin fight for much of October. That prompted the original delay in the fight. Then last week, the intestinal problem flamed up and Lesnar was hospitalized.

“We’ll find out more next week,” White said. “We’re going to send him to the Mayo Clinic for a couple of days. I don’t know what to say. It’s looking better now than last week, but what that means, I don’t know.”

Lesnar had been scheduled to face undefeated heavyweight Shane Carwin at UFC 106 before succumbing to illness. This fight was rescheduled for UFC 108 but has since been canceled because of Lesnar’s current health status.

Source: Yahoo! Sports

UFC president Dana White rushed out to see heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar on Tuesday at a Bismarck, N.D. hospital. Lesnar had to undergo surgery after collapsing this past weekend due to a bacterial infection in his intestinal tract. “The family was worried big time, they were freaking out,” White, the UFC president, said Wednesday. [...]

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