EXCLUSIVE *NEW* Brock Lesnar to Forfeit HW Title?

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"Wednesday mornings announcement that UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar was fully healed from a bout with diverticulosis and getting ready for a return to the Octagon later in 2010 was the news millions of fight fans had been waiting to hear. As for the rest of the heavyweight division, Lesnar isnt so sure. More about his triumph over illness

Im getting ready for anybody and everybody, said the champion. I know the heavyweight class is back on their toes again because Brock Lesnars back.

Lesnar, 32, was confident and talking with the swagger weve come to expect from him during a media teleconference today. But back in October, things werent so sunny for the native of Webster, South Dakota, who saw his training camp for a UFC 106 bout with Shane Carwin derailed by illness.

I didnt know what was going on at first, he said. I had been suffering for almost a year with something I didnt really know what it was. I had stomach pains here and there and some flu-like symptoms throughout the year. In the camp for Carwin, it snowballed, and I was missing full weeks of my training camp because I just couldnt perform.

Initially, doctors thought Lesnar possibly had mononucleosis or swine flu, but he refused to take a CT scan, figuring that a long rest after the postponement of the November Carwin bout would do the trick. It didnt, and soon Lesnar was being rushed back to the States from a hunting trip in Canada for what turned out to be a severe case of diverticulitis known as diverticulosis.

Doctors both at Medcenter One in Bismarck, North Dakota and at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota recommended an invasive surgery that would remove a section of his colon, force him to wear a colostomy bag for six to eight weeks, and then have him undergo another surgery.

Lesnar, who spent 11 days in the hospital and fell to a weight of 248 pounds he jokes that he hadnt seen since like second grade, refused the surgery that he admits would have probably retired him from the sport.

He made an immediate change to his diet and soon got the green light to go back to the gym.

I totally changed my diet, got on some natural healing medicine, and was doing a lot of praying, said Lesnar, whose previous diet left much to be desired.

For years I was surviving on meat and potatoes, and when the greens came by, I just kept passing em.

As for getting back to his normal fighting weight and getting his strength and cardio back, that wasnt easy.

Talk about starting from ground zero, he said. You sit in a hospital and you lose 40 pounds and I just wanted to get my strength back. I had a hard time getting out of bed and walking to the bathroom, Id be out of breath. But ironically, I think its raised my conditioning level because I was at the bottom of the barrel, and now Im back in the gym, I was helping Cole Konrad and Chris Tuchscherer last week, and I feel great. I feel like my old self again.

Now up to 273 pounds, Lesnar got a colonoscopy on January 5th that gave him a clean bill of health and a CT scan from this week came up aces as well. Lesnar had dodged a bullet, and hes made the changes he needed to make to hopefully avoid another incident like this one that halted his career and put his life in danger.

Everybodys got life-changing experiences and this is one of them for me, he said. I believe things happen for a reason, and this gave me a different perspective on life and on my family. Im a young guy these things arent supposed to happen. I consider myself a healthy human being. Im 32 years old, and for something like this to happen, I definitely had to re-evaluate. When you think youre doing all the right things and all of a sudden something like this happens, obviously youre not, so I had to make some changes.

One thing hasnt changed though, and thats his desire to continue his reign atop the heavyweight division. Next on his agenda is an expected summer bout with the winner of the interim heavyweight title bout between Shane Carwin and Frank Mir on March 27th, or if the winner of that fight isnt ready to go that soon, a bout against the winner of the UFC 110 match between Minotauro Nogueira and Cain Velasquez. Ask Lesnar who he wants next, and he really doesnt care, as long as the challenger is gloved up and ready to go on fight night.

I cant dwell on any of that, he said. Thats the future and thats the beauty of it. Ill just sit back, sharpen my skills, and Ill be ready for either one of those guys (Carwin or Mir), or even if its Nogueira or Velasquez, I know one thing all those guys are s**tting their pants right now."

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[Zevvion]

Wow, from reading the first two pages of comments I really start to feel bad about internet contributions. Why can't anyone discuss in a normal, constructive manner? All I see is 'your a fag', 'you're gay' and whatever.

Seriously makes me wonder why people are so fed up with themselves that they can't control themselves. On a sidenote; if calling someone gay is the best you can come up with you're not even creative either. So, dumb and not creative... it's just sad.

[system0Fhonor]

@ARandomCanadian

Wow your gay. Aids will kill you

[pacholito24]

@ARandomCanadian im sure you feel silly now dont u?

[bob2012isfake]

brown pride is a fucking gang is cain a fucking gang banger

[xaviermarez]

@Zevvion agreed

[xaviermarez]

@blu333 your racisim makes us look bad

[blu333]

GO TRAIN A DRAGON YOU FUCKING VIKING FREAK! BROWN PRIDE!!!!!!

[combatmunky]

you twat

[ARandomCanadian]

@system0Fhonor You're the one that likes black dicks up your ass

[ARandomCanadian]

@ultrameka Size matters, look at all of Brock's fights.