Earlier this month it was revealed that former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar was facing hunting charges relating to the Alberta Fish and Wildlife act.
On Tuesday, December 20, a lawyer representing Lesnar answered to those charges, entering a plea of guilty in a Medicine Hat courtroom to one charge of improper tagging of an animal.
The original charges stemmed from a November 2010 trip to Alberta, Canada where Lesnar and his hunting guide allegedly failed to tag their game and left a mule deer carcass to rot.
According to the Winnipeg Free Press, for his guilty plea Lesnar received a fine of $1,725 and was given a six-month hunting suspension. Two other charges, spoiling of skin and edible flesh and possession of a controlled animal were dropped. The three charges carried a maximum penalty of $50,000 and a year in prison.
With the hunting charges behind him, Lesnar can put his entire focus on his upcoming fight at UFC 141. Lesnar will face Alistair Overeem in the main event of the December 30 fight card. Lesnar has not fought since losing the UFC heavyweight title to Cain Velasquez in October 2010.
A fight with Junior dos Santos at the conclusion of season 13 of The Ultimate Fighter was scrapped when Lesnar suffered a second case of diverticulitis. Lesnar was forced to undergo surgery for the illness and had a section of his colon removed.
The winner of the December 30 bout will be in line to face current UFC heavyweight champion Junior dos Santos.
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