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Brock Lesnar says this will not be the end of his fighting career. 

During an open media call on Thursday, Brock addressed the two dilemmas he was facing—moving forward with his June 11 fight against Junior dos Santos, and the decision as to whether he would undergo surgery.

First, he addressed his decision to pull out of his scheduled match-up.

“The first thing that came to mind was, from today until June 11, I can’t be well-enough prepared to step in the Octagon and face Junior dos Santos. It wouldn’t be fair to myself or my family, or to the people I have to get in the Octagon and perform in front of, because I wouldn’t have been 100-percent on June 11. It was a hard decision. I’m choked up about it.”

He then went on to explain that his current battle with the illness isn’t as bad as his first, but is would have put him in a position where he could not get a proper training camp in.

“It just didn’t allow me to train the way I needed to train for a No. 1 contender’s bout” Lesnar explained. “I only have three weeks to turn this thing around. We just didn’t feel like I could do that.”

Then Lesnar went on to explain his decision regarding whether or not to have surgery.

“Now I’m at another fork in the road to where now, what do I do? I gotta follow-up with my doctors and weigh the risks and rewards. I went down there yesterday to figure out the problem. We’re waiting on a number of different tests to come back. I believe there’s a solution to every problem. I just gotta find the right solution to fix this problem. This isn’t the end of Brock Lesnar. This is a speed bump in the road. I’ve hit a lot of speed bumps in my career and this is one of them.”

Before Brock Lesnar stepped in to the Octagon, he first signed a deal with K-1 Heros. He made is MMA debut on June 2, 2007 on the K-1 Dynamite!! USA show.

K-1 hoped to put together the largest North American MMA event in the sport’s history, as they held the event at the Los Angeles Coliseum. They succeeded, selling approximately 44,000 tickets, but that record was later broken by UFC 129.

In his mixed martial arts debut, Lesnar was scheduled to take on Hong Man Choi. However, Choi was not issued a license to fight by the California State Athletic Commission, which left K-1 Heros without an opponent for their main event.

On short notice, Korean Min Soo Kim stepped in to face Lesnar. At the time, Kim was sporting a 2-5, which made him a great opponent to introduce Lesnar to mixed martial arts.

It didn’t take long for Brock to assert his dominance against the over-matched Kim. It took Lesnar only 69 seconds to get a takedown, land a few punches that left Kim’s face a mess, and earn the TKO victory.

After his impressive debut, he was signed by the UFC. The rest is history.