Brock Lesnar’s Return Set For This Summer To Defend Heavyweight Title

- Sherdog.com

Many on the Internet (myself included) were doubting some of the dire comments made about Lesnar’s health by Dana White during this whole ordeal. But judging by the description of the actual illness it sounds like we were close to not only seeing Brock never return to the cage, but also him possibly battling for his life.

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Brock Lesnar and Dana White appeared on the 11am edition of ESPN’s Sportscenter to explain Brock’s health issues and his future. In the interview Lesnar explained that he was feeling ill leading up to the Carwin fight. He was diagnosed with mononucleosis which he claims he knew wasn’t right. Lesnar eventually ended up with a 104 temperature and was diagnosed with diverticulosis and had developed a hole in his stomach.

A decision was made to not have a piece of his colon removed and instead they trusted Lesnar’s body to heal itself. He lost 40 pounds and continued to refuse surgery and began working out again. Brock has regained 30 pounds and there are no more signs of any problems in his stomach. Lesnar had another CT scan done yesterday and all doctors are now clearing him to fight as there is no sign of any problem.

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, Brock Lesnar will be on ESPN’s Sportscenter on Wednesday to discuss his health. There is no word at this time on what the update will be. This means, as of right now, we do not know if Lesnar will be returning to action in the near future, if he will vacate the title, or really anything more than we knew a week ago.

No word on the date of the press conference but it is rumored that the announcement will come out within one week. Although, given the UFC’s track record of “announcements” it is extremely possible that all we’ll find out from the presser is that we still don’t know anything.

There has been a lot of debate over what the true status of Lesnar’s illness is. Multiple sources have reported that he is already doing strength training and some other light work-outs while White has been insisting that Brock is still in bad shape. At the same time White was in front of the media stating that Lesnar had spent time at the Mayo Clinic while Lesnar’s own camp has said that he never was there.

It’s possible that this is a play to promote Lesnar’s next fight as a return not only to the cage, but as a man coming from his deathbed to the Octagon. Or it is also possible that Lesnar and his team did not want the true seriousness of the situation out in the open and Dana was simply being honest.

Sherdog.com with the update:

Mike Fagan of Bloody Elbow had this to say:

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SBN’s Cageside Seats reports:

Heavy.com with the report:

Today’s announcement of Nogueira vs. Velasquez may turn out to be a main event announcement unless some major moves are made.

- Brock Lesnar’s trainer Greg Nelson

There is now talk that Lesnar’s return could get pushed back to the Super Bowl weekend event at the start of February.

It has been speculated on many sites (SBNation.com included) that the Brock Lesnar illness was just an attempt to move the event to the January 2 card which is the yearly UFC mega-event. The above video is Brock at the Minnesota Vikings game on October 18. Without knowing what kind of illness he is fighting it is hard to say one way or the other, but he certainly doesn’t seem all that sick.

From Shane Carwin’s Twitter page: