UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar said his road to wellness included multiple misdiagnoses, substandard medical care and a frantic car ride across the Canadian border.
Lesnar, who has battled through a painful intestinal infection called diverticulosis for the last few months, related his story during a Wednesday conference call.
“I didn’t know what was going on at first,” Lesnar said. “I was very sick. I’ve been suffering almost a year with something I didn’t know what it was. I had some stomach pains here and there and some flu-like symptoms throughout the year. Actually, during the training camp for Shane Carwin is when everything just kind of snowballed. That’s when I realized I was missing full weeks of my training camp because I just couldn’t perform. That’s when I decided four weeks out to give these guys (the UFC) hopefully enough notice.”
Lesnar said the last thing he wanted to do was give a “bad performance” or “risk losing my title,” so he withdrew from a Nov. 21 contest against Carwin at UFC 106. The promotion tentatively rescheduled the bout for UFC 108 on Jan. 2 in Las Vegas, while the 32-year-old fighter kept returning to the doctor to pinpoint what was wrong with him.
Lesnar said physicians gave a couple of potential diagnoses, including mononucleosis and the H1N1 virus. Lesnar acknowledged that he refused to get a CT scan, which might have allowed doctors to diagnose him properly at the time.
“In my mind, I either had the flu or mono, and so I had to pull the pin and decided to take a little vacation and get away from the chaos and head up to Canada and do some hunting,” Lesnar said.
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Brock Lesnar is a jack ass. Canada has the best health care system in the world it is not controled by greedy insurance companys and it is free. It would realy do him good to keep his trap shut cause the less he says the better he sounds.