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Here we go, SURGERY, here we go! /clap /clap!
Please, Dear Gods, make this happen.
his trainer Geg Nelson said in a text he is doing better and heading home soon..
http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/...0014&zoneid=13
Seems that any major surgery on the intestines is horrible news and puts his career at risk. So lets hope they can treat this without surgery and he can bounce back.
Here we go, SURGERY, here we go! /clap /clap!
Please, Dear Gods, make this happen.
why so much hate towards him? are you friends with Mir or something?
i hope he gets better soon hes a freak
Yeah I dont get it either, love him or hate him he has lit a fire in what used to be a weak HW div.
Wishing this on somebody who isn't completely evil is... well, a little sick. Get some help.
Seriously, grow the up. The dude is a human being, how about you try and act like one as well.
Hope he overcomes this.
What a sad excuse for a human being.
Here we go, GAS-TRIC BY-PASS, here we go!
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...and shane carwin do not approve of your baggery
http://www.mixedmartialarts.com/mma....1553923&page=1
Shane Carwin
Member Since: 10/11/06
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I am sure most of you know I am not the leader of the Lesnar Fan Club. That being said, antics or not, he is OUR UFC HWT Champion. He beat a future Hall of Famer to keep that belt and he NEEDS our prayers and good thoughts right now.
At the end of the day I can take off my UFC shirt and say here is a man, a Champion that has been brought down by an illness not another man. It is very humbling if you think about it.
Brock has a wife, kid, and friends that depend on him to make their lives better. You do not have to support Brock and his antics but you should have respect for the human side of what is happening here.
This is not a ploy to sell more tickets, he is the biggest draw this sport has ever had. This is not him ducking me or any other fighter. This is about a man who is fighting an illness for his career, family and friends.
Talk of stripping a man of his le due to illness will set this sport back farther then anything Brock has ever said. We need our Champions healthy and defending. I know the show will go on but to be a Champion you must beat a Champion.
My family and I send our thoughts and well wishes to Brock's family, friends and training partners. We are indeed keeping you in our thoughts.
If you sit around bashing Brock or making fun of this because of his antics you might be the very same thing you despise. As an MMA fan, as a human be concerned that one of OUR OWN has fallen and needs our support.
Get well soon UFC Heavyweight Champ Brock Lesnar.
Should i start praying you get cancer and die??
So i guess the 'clap' doesn't come by way of the hand but more like a jumping jack?Here we go, GAS-TRIC BY-PASS, here we go!
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Classy move on Carwin's part.
Dana on Twitter..
Leaving bismarck ND right now. Brock had minor surgery and is feeling better. Not 100% sure he is out of the woods but feeling better
http://twitter.com/danawhite
Get well Brock
lulz..Here we go, GAS-TRIC BY-PASS, here we go!
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I can't stand Brock, but you're a piece of for posting stuff like this. Grow up.
Brock may be a big d-bag on the mic but it's not cool to wish harm on the guy. i hope he gets better soon. he's brought a whole new challenge to the heavies and somebody will eventually beat him. i just want it to be a fighter that beats him...not some crazy disease.
I guess I need to grow up then... Geeze. I've never seen or read half of you guys posting things like this about NBA players... right? Wait...
The gastric bypass was good though, I must give props where they are due.
Secondly, I stated in this thread that I DIDN'T want him to die, but I want career ending injury. Why is that so bad? How many of you have thought/said that about Kobe or LeBron or Jordan or Dirk? I hate the guy, I hate his fat ass that beat my favorite fighter. I want him to fail. I just don't see why you guys are jumping all over my sack about this.
Cut me some slack fella's, I am just passionate about my Lesner hate. Props to Carwin as well, I like that dude even more now.
Oh well fine then, this changes everything..
I hate Kobe and other athletes but i never wish injury on anyone so that they can't play/fight anymore. I root against them to lose every time like a fan of the sport does..
For example my most hated fighter ever is probably Mike Bisping but i never root for him to be hurt so bad he could not fight again. I'll just boo his ass every time he does fight..
say bro, wouldn't you rather see him get his ass beat in the cage than outside of it by some illness? it will be better than when Randy beat Tim Sylvia.
Guess you never saw how much those posters who wish harm on any player get either.
Then root for him to lose the le in the Octagon.
Wanting him to fail in the UFC is worlds apart from wanting him to fail outside of it. The former is what any typical sports fan would do, the latter is what utter bags do.
Sad when the guy's opponent shows more class than you do.
Lesnar’s rocky road takes another turn
By Dan Wetzel, Yahoo! Sports
Last month Brock Lesnar sat in a small-town, fast food restaurant, surrounded by blue-collar townies, munching on a five-dollar foot long. He was the reigning Ultimate Fighting Championship heavyweight le holder, yet unlike his old days as a professional wrestler/entertainer, he was far from the spotlight.
His life was now about family, training and humble hard work. It was the an hesis of his days making millions in the cutthroat, 300-days-on-the-road, close-down-the-nightclubs-fast-lane of the WWE.
That was an existence he grew to detest, so much so that five years ago he walked away from a multi-million dollar contract with no job.
Then an interesting thing happened. By moving to real fighting, he found the real Brock Lesnar.
“This is who I am,” he said. “I’m a fighter.”
Now Lesnar is in for the biggest fight of his life; dealing with a serious illness – at this point just described as “bacterial infection in his intestinal tract.” He had “minor surgery” in Bismarck, N.D. Tuesday, according to UFC president Dana White.
“Not 100 (percent) sure he is out of the woods but (he’s) feeling better,” White wrote via Twitter.
The illness has caused the postponement of one le defense and, according to White, could even cost him his budding second-career.
“There’s a possibility Lesnar will never fight again,” White told TMZ.com on Monday.
Lesnar is famously private and precise details of what’s wrong have not been released. His management team and the UFC have declined further comment. All we know is that he grew so weak during an October training camp that he had to pull out of a fight that was scheduled for this Saturday.
The first diagnosis was mono. White said Saturday, though, that Lesnar was “very, very sick.” While he wouldn’t reveal the illness, he said it wasn’t cancer or HIV. There is no word on whether Tuesday’s surgery solves the problem or is just the first of many treatments.
Either way, for Lesnar the person, the timing is tough.
The 32-year old had entered a period of professional success, personal contentment and family bliss (a new baby boy with his wife, former wrestling star Sable, while living near his second grade daughter from a previous relationship).
It was a journey that was a long time and numerous bold lifestyle changes in the making.
After winning a NCAA wrestling championship at the University of Minnesota in 2000, Lesnar entered the scripted WWE as a natural born star. At 6-3, 300-pounds, he boasted incredible athletic ability and a natural touch as an actor. He was a headliner by 2002 and for three years made millions while living the predictable wild life on the road of someone young, rich and famous.
“You could either stay in or go out,” he said. “Guess which I chose?”
Increasingly he detested it. He was miserable. He later got a tattoo of a sword on his chest, blade pointed at his neck.
“At the time it symbolized someone (having) a knife up against my throat,” he said.
The WWE has a long, ugly history of pushing its wrestlers to cut corners and compete at all costs. Dozens of pro wrestlers have died young, even in their 20s and 30s. Others have pointed to a culture of steroids (Lesnar has denied ever taking them), pain killers and substance abuse.
Whatever the reason, Lesnar did what few do. He walked away. He attempted to get out of his contract by trying out for the Minnesota Vikings even though he hadn’t played football since high school. He almost made the team.
He pro wrestled in Japan, got into a legal battle with the WWE and, in 2006, just retired and left everything behind. The $7 million contract. The all-night parties. The rush of fame.
His decision is beyond rare – there’s a reason they’ll never run out of subjects for “True Hollywood Stories.”
Lesnar said he’d rather farm than continue. The fake wrestler was going to be true to himself. He had no clear career path. He said he was depressed. He bought some land. He ran a tractor.
Then he gave mixed martial arts a chance and after one contest approached Dana White.
“Let me fight,” Lesnar begged back in 2007. “Give me one chance.”
The UFC is the highest level of cage fighting, filled with experts at things like Brazilian jiu-jitsu and Muay Thai boxing. If you don’t know what you’re doing, you’ll get hurt. Even a former NCAA wrestling champ.
“It’s no place for on the job training,” White cautioned.
Lesnar didn’t care.
“I’m either good at this or I’m not,” he said, asking for world class compe ion from the start, unwilling to waste any more of the present as he searched for a future.
In less than a year he was the UFC heavyweight champion and its biggest box office draw. It turns out he wasn’t just good at MMA, he was great at it.
Suddenly he could earn millions by fighting just a few times a year. Gone were weeks with seven shows in seven cities. It was a real sport. He retreated to Alexandria, Minn., a working-class town a two-hour drive northwest of Minneapolis. It’s where his daughter lives.
He and Sable bought a 40-acre farm in the woods. They had their first son in June. He became the rare athlete who openly discussed trying to be the best father and husband he could.
When not working out at a non-descript training facility, he hunts and fishes. He drives rusted, used trucks. He doesn’t have the Internet. If it weren’t for an occasional hunting show and NFL football, he’d throw out his television. He eats at Subway.
He couldn’t be happier. He’s found balance.
“Fighting is not my life,” he said last month, eating a meatball sub. “My family is my life. I know who I am and what I’m about. My wife knows who I am. My children know who I am. My friends. That’s all that matter to me.”
He’s poured himself into becoming a better fighter, paying training partners and experts to come in and make him better.
He was on the verge of a long career, perhaps even an extended run as the champion. Everything was humming, professionally and personally. The gamble of walking away from the circus and into an honest life had paid off.
Then a week after we had lunch in Alexandria, he got sick. Then he got sicker. Now he might need further hospitalization, surgery, treatment, who knows.
Now everything is up in the air for a guy who found happiness by getting grounded.
Crossing fingers big time that he is going to be okay here. This guy is so talented, to have his career end like this would be a travesty..
Get well soon Brock, hang in there..
*sigh*
Alright, I'm a . I get it. You guys are all right. I said some things I shouldn't have, and now, I am regretting it. Ya, ya, it's just an internet message board, but I really do feel like a . I have done a lot of reading about Lesner today, and I must admit, I feel even worse for it.
You guys have made some good points, and I agree with all of you. I hope he gets better, I hope he returns to the cage, and I hope that someone breaks his face in there.
And, to top it off, you guys will love this...
I've been sick for the last two weeks or so. I actually had to go to the hospital twice because of insane pain in my left side. After weeks of pain, many trips to the doctors, etc. they diagnosed me with Mono. Go figure, eh? So, on top of feeling like a complete head here, I've now got what Brock has. Life, it seems, has a sense of revenge.
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