Illness forces Lesnar postponement

[BABY1]

TweetBrock Lesnar, the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s massive heavyweight titleholder, was forced to withdraw Monday from his highly anticipated Nov. 21 title defense in Las Vegas against Shane Carwin.
Carwin, via his Twitter feed, said the fight will be rescheduled for UFC 108 on Jan. 2.
UFC president Dana White confirmed the news to Yahoo! Sports. White said Lesnar has been ill for more than three-and-a-half weeks and unable to train. With the bout at UFC 106 less than a month away, Lesnar was forced to postpone the title defense.
“He said he’s never been this sick in his life,” White said. “He said it’s been going on for a long time and he just hasn’t been able to shake it.”
Lesnar’s co-manager, Brian Stegeman, said he does not know whether Lesnar had H1N1, commonly known as swine flu, and that he is beyond the stage at which he could be tested for the virus. He said Lesnar had upper respiratory issues, fever and extreme fatigue.

“Honestly, he’s been sick since the beginning of this camp and he’s had to take days off throughout,” Stegeman said.
The fight matches two of the biggest and most powerful heavyweights in the UFC. Lesnar (4-1), a former World Wrestling Entertainment star, was a junior college and NCAA Division I wrestling champion. Carwin is a former Division II national wrestling champion.
Both men weigh around 295 pounds and cut weight to make the heavyweight division’s 265-pound limit.
Carwin (11-0), who made several appearances in Los Angeles on Saturday to promote the fight, was clearly disappointed at getting the news.
“My heart just sank, as you can imagine,” Carwin told Yahoo! Sports upon hearing the news about the fight postponement.
The UFC announced Monday afternoon it will move the previously scheduled Tito Ortiz vs. Forrest Griffin fight, a rematch of an epic 2006 contest won by Ortiz on a controversial split decision, into the Nov. 21 main event slot
Stegeman said Lesnar just took an entire week off from training with no appreciable improvement. He said Lesnar’s head mixed martial arts coach, Marty Morgan, didn’t think he’d have enough training time to properly prepare.
“We kept thinking that he’d get better and be back at it, but it finally got to a point here where we were looking at a situation where Brock would have just two weeks to train for this fight.
“That’s just not fair to him. There’s no way a two-week training camp is even close to being fair to him and we all realized that. We kept hoping Brock would respond and get better, but it just lingered.”

[FUZO]

Tweetsi it gets pushed back and brock gets better thats all

[tn94z]

TweetYeah, he had a case of the chicken shits!

[jamescb77]

Tweeti agree i think he might have been sick but it hink overall he just realized he isn't good enough to fight carwin yet

[BIGMOFO]

Tweetbring on tha fight

[gator_mclusky]

TweetI wouldnt doubt he's sick. Im goin to the doc today myself.

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[O2BESOHUGE]

TweetMAN THAT WOULD BE SO FUNNY...ALL THE SH IT HES TALKED AND CARWIN TAKE IT AWAY FROM HIM. THEN AFTER THAT - LESNAR AND CARWIN REMATCH WOULD BE THE ONE TO WATCH. LESNAR WOULD BE FIGHTING LIKE A MAN POSSESSED THEN TO GET THE BELT BACK!!

[FUZO]

TweetYou haters are to funny someone gets sick and he's lying,lol

[tn94z]

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You haters are to funny someone gets sick and he's lying,lol

I knew that would get you!! HaHa! No one wanted to believe that Nog was sick when he fought Mir and they all laughed at his performance. Look at his last performance.

[FUZO]

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I knew that would get you!! HaHa! No one wanted to believe that Nog was sick when he fought Mir and they all laughed at his performance. Look at his last performance.

Right he beat the snot out of randy

[tn94z]

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Right he beat the snot out of randy

Exactly. If you are sick and can't train, then you just can't train. I want to see both of them at 100%. I can't stand to hear someone start making excuses after they lose.

[BIGMOFO]

Tweetwe need our own ufc fight....O2 vs david150 to start and then MOFO vs BIGDAWG