Youngey

Illness forces Lesnar out of fight

Brock Lesnar, the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s massive heavyweight titleholder, was forced to withdraw Monday from his highly anticipated Nov. 21 title defense in Las Vegas against Shane Carwin.

UFC president Dana White confirmed the news to Yahoo! Sports. White said Lesnar has been ill for more than three-and-a-half weeks and unable to train. With the bout at UFC 106 less than a month away, Lesnar was forced to postpone the title defense.

White said he does not believe Lesnar had the H1N1 virus, commonly known as swine flu.

The fight matched two of the biggest and most powerful heavyweights in the UFC. Lesnar (4-1), a former World Wrestling Entertainment star, was a junior college and NCAA Division I wrestling champion. Carwin is a former Division II national wrestling champion.



Damnnn !!! .. Hope he gets better, heard the rematch is on the cards ASAP

Youngey

Also i heard the John Fitch and Thiago Alves fight is off, Alves is injured....

Youngey

It seems Griffin/Ortiz II will be the main event of 106 now instead of the postponed Lesnar fight so the card will look like this, still decent I think

-Tito Ortiz vs Forrest Griffin
-Jon Fitch vs Thiago Alves
-Antonio Rogerio Nogueira vs Luiz Cane
-Karo Parisyan vs Dustin Hazelett
-Amir Sadollah vs Phil Baroni(bumped up from the prelims)

Kevsworld

I saw that a few days ago. I was looking forward to that Lesnar fight, but I'd rather wait until he's over his sickness. It'll be interesting to see how he does against an opponent of similar size.