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Audio from Thursday afternoons UFC media call announcing that former champ Brock Lesnar was pulling out of his UFC 131 bout with Junior dos Santos due to another bout with diverticulitis. Stepping in for Lesnar will be former No. 1 contender Shane Carwin.
“I’ve been dealing with some symptoms for the last I would say three months. I felt it a little bit while I was filming ‘TUF,’ and the only way to treat the symptoms is by getting on antibiotics, and allowing the antibiotics to take its course, and to fight the infection. During the course of this training camp I felt another infection, got another CT scan done on my stomach where it was visible inflation, and due to that what it does to you, it doesn’t allow me to train to my full capability. I was forced to make a decision to go back down to the doctor this week to figure out how far this thing was along, and what it does, it drains my entire body down….”
“I’m telling you one thing, I’m not retiring. This isn’t the end of my fight career.This is something that I believe, and I have a strong faith, there’s a solution to every problem. I’ve just got to find the right solution to fix this problem. I love this sport and I love what I do, this isn’t the end of Brock Lesnar. This is a speed bump on the road, and trust me I’ve incurred a lot of speed bumps throughout my career, and this is one of them. I’m here to tell everybody, because I’ve been here before, I want to state that this is not an end of my career. Far from it.”