The news just keeps getting worse for the UFC, and Brock Lesnar will face another uphill battle to get back into the octagon. During a conference call on Thursday afternoon, Dana White announced that Lesnar had to pull out of his scheduled bout with Junior dos Santos at UFC 131 due to a recurrence of diverticulitis.
This is the same condition that kept Lesnar out of action for a year in 2009-10. The injury is not expected to be career threatening, but he does face a decision of whether or not to have surgery or live with the disease for the rest of his life.
“I am not retiring, I want to make that clear,” a clearly upset Lesnar told reporters.
White announced that dos Santos would fight at UFC 131 against former heavyweight championship contender Shane Carwin.
This news comes just days after Frankie Edgar and Gray Maynard were forced to pull out of their fight at UFC 130 due to injuries suffered during training.
Lesnar tried to stay positive throughout the press conference, acknowledging that he is taking the steps that he has to in order to get back to being completely healthy.
He was diagnosed two days ago when he went to the hospital with abdominal pain.
Lesnar has every intention of getting back into the octagon and will do whatever he has to in order to get his career back on track. He hasn’t made a decision whether he will have the surgery or not, nor did he offer any kind of a time table for when he will make that decision, but he did say that he will evaluate all of his options to see what is in his best interest.
If Lesnar does have surgery, it will keep him out of action for at least a year. I would imagine he will do everything that he can to avoid that, but if it improves his quality of life I can’t see him not going through with it.
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