This could be enough to force the UFC to make a bigger play to Henderson for a Marquardt fight.

Shane Carwin is not going to take a fight with someone else because he’s afraid he’ll lose, and not get to fight for the belt.

Nogeuira, or Dos Santos would finish him, and he knows it. He probably just wants to be able to say he fought for the belt.

If they are awarding an interim title, shouldn’t it be Carwin vs. someone for it?

They won’t do an interim title, it makes no sense, Lesnar will fight by March.

The only one I could see them doing an interim title for is 205 with Shogun in a main event for this show, especially considering the disputed nature of Machida’s current status.

I have an aquaintence who is one of Shane’s training partners in Denver and he told me Shane really wasn’t all that upset the bout with Lesnar was moved back. Shane did have 3-4 days in the past few weeks when an illness limited his training, but not really a big deal, his training camp was on schedule for a Nov 21 bout. From what I heard he enjoys training with his team and feels he gets better every day he has to train with them so an extra 2, 3, even 4 months if that is what it takes is no problem, he’ll be that much better when the bout occurs. And between the team in Denver and the extended Team Jackson, its difficult to argue with that logic.

I’ve had mono and it can completely shut you down. When I first went to my doctor and they drew less than a 1/2 pint of blood for testing I was dizzy walking to my car. I lost 20 lbs in 2 weeks. All I could do was eat a couple popsicles a day and watch bad tv. If mono is what Lesnar is suffering from it will probably take 2-6 weeks for him to get back into the shape he was in before the illness struck, plus an 8 week training camp. And that 10-14 week period can’t start until the mono runs its course.

This could be awhile, but I think Carwn has the mental game to not make the wait an issue for him and quite frankly due to the physical toll mono extracts I would say Carwin’s odds just got better. Shane strikes me as one of the most mature fighters in the UFC so waiting shouldn’t drive him nuts. Its not working out too bad for big Shane.

I think Vel Nog should be for the title baby. Lesnar may or may not be back in 3 months. Let’s just make things interesting. Shane sitting out a few more months? He is not getting any younger. But I guess he wants to make himself famous by knocking Lesnar out.

If we don’t have some action in the heavyweight division, UFC risks looking like Strikeforce. It is funny how when I had Mono, I just went on a making out binge in high school in hopes that all the girls would get sick and have to stay home from school.

I think the Nog Cain fight would be an EXCELLENT fight. Nog is better on the ground than Cain is a wrestler and Cain can’t knock his momma out.

As for Carwin, I hope he fights Brett Rogers after he loses.

Maybe they should rename Scott Junk, Scott “Mono” Junk … Great point.

Or Matt “Mono” Mitrione AKA Triple M.

but he was kinda handed the title shot in the 1rst place (i thought nog deserved it, after beating handy). he was supposed to fight cain 1rst, so either he can wait a little longer or fight beuntello or somebody else in-between. can’t stand the thought of another “interim” title idea, and i don’t see it happening. the last one was basically b/c of randy’s year long hiatus, not knowing for sure if he was going to come back or retire. this is a much different scenario. someone has to beat brock to be the ufc champ imo. not too woried about the co/main being a 3rounder, there are plenty of great fights still on this card. if gsp comes back by feb, they can pair him and brock together for ppv gold.

Maybe Brock accidentally got on top of Tito’s wife instead.

Brock does have mono as stated by Dana White..

At this point in time they are not definite on what to do with Carwin.. Brock wont be able to resume training until sometime in Dec.. It’s more realistic we’ll see Lesnar defend the title in Feb at the earliest.. More than likely the March card..

Lesnar does have a history of balking when things don’t work his way. He could be buying time and Mono is a perfect fit.

Not saying that’s happened. But there’s the possibility.

I found out I had mono back in mid SEPT. My doctor told me no boxing for minimum 6 months – doc said spleen gets enlarged from the virus and has high risk of erupting…I think brock will be out for a while – he will be wiped out for a while and then has the long process of getting back into shape…which makes me wonder how skinny he will look in the next couple months