Former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar was a guest on The Fight Show with Mauro Ranallo on Tuesday.
Lesnar was on the program to promote his new book, Death Clutch: My Story of Determination, Domination, and Survival. The former champ also discussed his current battle with diverticulitis, his future as a mixed martial artist, plus a whole range of other subjects.
Zach Arnold, over at FightOpinion.com, transcribed a few sections of that interview, in particular a discussion about Lesnar’s current medical condition.
MAURO RANALLO: “What is the plan for you, Brock? Are you scheduled to go to the doctor this week, I understand, or what’s the future hold for Brock Lesnar as a Mixed Martial Artist?”
BROCK LESNAR: “Yeah, I’m very disappointed. This has not only mentally but this has been very physically strenuous on me, you know, since my first bout with Diverticulitis in 2009. 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 but getting past that and understand that, you know, 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.”
MAURO RANALLO: “So, obviously you, as you stated during the conference call when this first was released, you stick by your guns that your MMA career is not over?”
BROCK LESNAR: “No, it’s not over. I mean, I don’t, you know, even talking with the doctors about the possibility of surgery, there’s really, uh, it’s not a career-ending surgery by any means so I just got to weigh out all my options at this time and see if that is the right thing to do or is there’s any other medication that I can be on or any other thing, I don’t know how I can change my diet any more than I have but we’re looking down all avenues right now and I foresee, you know, in the near future that I’ll be able to step back in the Octagon.”