UFC President Dana White: Brock Lesnar has a ‘serious’ illness
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Brock Lesnar, the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s heavyweight champion, has been diagnosed with a ‘serious’ illness and expects to be out of action for an extended period, according to a Yahoo Sports report.
Contacted today by The Times, UFC owner Lorenzo Fertitta would say only that the organization is granting Lesnar’s request for privacy.
The Yahoo story, quoting UFC President Dana White from a Saturday event in Manchester, England, reported that Lesnar recently collapsed in Canada and returned home to learn he had a health problem beyond his previous diagnosis for mononucleosis.
Lesnar had to pull out of his scheduled fight Saturday at UFC 106 in Las Vegas and the UFC’s Jan. 2 card versus Shane Carwin.
“It’s bad,” White told Yahoo’s Dave Meltzer. “It’s real bad. I am worried about it. I can’t really talk about it right now, but [Lesnar] is in rough shape.”
The UFC has been ravaged by illness and injury in recent weeks. Heavyweight Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira pulled out of his Jan. 2 main event versus Cain Velasquez because of a staph infection, middleweight champ Anderson Silva is out with elbow pain, and welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre was hurt in his most recent fight.
-- Lance Pugmire
