Brock Lesnar To Return Early 2012
Former UFC heavyweight champion, Brock Lesnar, has once again reassured fans of his imminent return to the UFC once his illness is under control.
“This has not only mentally but this has been very physically strenuous on me,” Lesnar told Mauro Renallo on the Fight Show, “you know, since my first bout with Diverticulitis in 2009.
“My health is very important and I got another doctor’s appointment on Thursday and a consultation where we’re going to go over and just try to figure out the best approach to try to handle this and it may be surgery and it may be not. We’re reviewing other options here to try to help me but, you know, I want to get back into the Octagon sooner than later.”
As a coach on UFC: The Ultimate Fighter Season 13, Lesnar was scheduled to face his opposing coach, Junior Dos Santos, at the end of the season at UFC 131. The illness, however, forced Lesnar to withdraw from the fight with Shane Carwin stepping in to replace him.
“Yeah, I’m very disappointed,” Lesnar said of his withdrawal from UFC 131. “Having to back away from a fight is not something that I think anybody likes to do, surely me, you know. The first time it happened to me and to fall under the same circumstances, I thought I had this thing beaten and I’m very disappointed.”
Lesnar did weigh-in with his opinion on the upcoming fight between Dos Santos and Carwin, claiming his replacement would defeat Dos Santos “wherever he wants to take the fight.”
In addition to the news that Lesnar will return, UFC President, Dana White, added an expected timeline telling MMAMania, “I'm optimistic that Brock (Lesnar) will bounce back from this thing; maybe by the first of the year.”
Does anyone else get the idea that White may be planning his annual New Year event?
