BROCK RETURNS---Dana White on ESPN: Brock Lesnar Will Face the Winner of Frank Mir vs Shane Carwin This Summer

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Dana White announced on ESPN's SportsCenter today that Brock Lesnar will return to the UFC.

Lesnar has been given a clean bill of health by his doctors.

Lesnar will face the winner of the Shane Carwin vs Frank Mir fight at UFC 111 -- which Dana confirmed will be for the UFC Heavyweight Interim Championship belt.

But White added, if the winner of the Mir/Carwin fight is hurt and unable to fight Lesnar this summer, than Lesnar will face the winner of UFC 110's Cain Velasquez/Antonio Rodrigo Nogeira fight.

http://bloodyelbow.com

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After months of speculation and rumours, Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) heavyweight superstar Brock Lesnar is on the comeback.

Lesnar, appearing on ESPN Wednesday morning, announced that he would be returning to action by the summer after a serious case of diverticulitis — an intestinal disease — forced him to twice delay a title defence versus Shane Carwin and ultimately left him hospitalized for weeks and on the sidelines for months.

He said he lost 40 pounds in the hospital and doctors told him he would need part of his colon removed.

During a follow-up visit, however, the doctors were “dumbfounded” that his stomach had healed completely. Lesnar called it a “miracle.” The medication which Lesnar took was key to preventing the need for a massive surgery.

In recent interviews, two of Lesnar’s coaches — Marty Morgan and Greg Nelson — along with UFC legend Randy Couture said they fully expected Lesnar to return to action.

UFC president Dana White has said several times since the news of Lesnar’s illness became public in November that Lesnar may have to retire from mixed martial arts.

Lesnar, the biggest pay-per-view draw in MMA, has not fought since the record-setting UFC 100 on July 11, when he beat Frank Mir. He was originally scheduled to face Carwin at UFC 106 in November, and then at UFC 108 in January, but his illness left him sidelined and threatened his career.

UFC was prepared if Lesnar could not return to action, scheduling a Frank Mir-Shane Carwin match on March 27 in Newark, N.J., as an interim championship bout, with the winner of that match likely looking at a contest versus Lesnar when he returns.

Mir has been vocal about his desire for a rubber match versus Lesnar — they’ve split two previous meetings — in what would likely be one of the biggest matches in UFC history.

srs.
http://www.canada.com/sports/Lesnar+...837/story.html

cool, glad to see the title get defended now...

also, whats with like the 8 different threads on brocks interview this morning?

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[HALZION]

bloodyelbow has a ton of redundancies, and britneyspearsfan only delivers the news. you may also notice two entirely different yet strikingly related threads about both the wimminz mma of strikeforce and the bobby lashley debacle of strikeforce.

I find it kind of annoying honestly :umm:

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I tweaked it a little. see how it goes.

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Found this over at Deadspin. I thought the comments at the end were gold.

The UFC Champ just got over a nasty case of diverticulitis, no thanks to Canada. In a move sure to upset half our nation and all of theirs, Lesnar trashed universal health care and called Canada "a Third World country."

In the fall, Lesnar was hunting in rural Manitoba when he became ill. He drove to the nearest facility, a small town health center (sorry, centre). But whale ivory and moose antler powder weren't doing the trick, so he fled across the border — eventually ending up in the very esteemed, very expensive Mayo Clinic.

I love Canada," said Lesnar. "Some of the best people and best hunting in the world, but I wasn't in the right facility."

"They couldn't do nothing for me," he added. "It was like I was in a Third World country, I just looked at my wife and she saved my life and I had to get out of there."

[snip]

"The only reason I'm mentioning this, I'm mentioning it to the United States of America because President Obama is looking for health care reform and I don't want it ... I'm speaking on behalf of Americans, I'm speaking on behalf of our doctors in the United States that don't want this to happen and neither do I."

Perhaps subverting his argument, Lesnar (seen above holding a beer owned by a Belgian conglomerate) admits that while back in the States, he was misdiagnosed with mononucleosis. But not even the best in the world get it right on the first try every time.

Brock, your ideas are intriguing and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter. Reply

Image of Lionel Osbourne Lionel Osbourne 02:22 AM

"Gene Okerlund, Jim Ross, all you fans wanted something, well here it is: Tonight, I want to announce my return to the ring. It's been a long time coming, but sitting in that hospital, on my deathbed, I realized that I couldn't go out like some chump. Barack Hussein Obama, hear this: You put me in that Third World-rate hospital because of some socialized medicine B.S., and now I'm putting you in the morgue. You wanted me off the map, to just shrivel up and die. Well, brother, I'm from South Dakota. That's in the U.S. of A, and these colors don't run, baby. Brock Lesnar's tough as a bear's ass in the middle of winter, and he's coming for you and that belt. Rahm, Biden, Axelrod, they won't be there to help you this time. Steel cage, brother, you and me. And remember, it ain't a white thing, it ain't a black thing, it's a kickin' your ass thing! Count on it!" Reply

Image of Beer-Fart Beer-Fart 02:20 AM

The "Manitoba Screw Job" joins the annals of wrestling history. Reply
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