Brock Lesnar: Devastated By Illness At UFC 141

Fans who are quick to write off Lesnar as a ‘flash-in-the-pan’ in MMA are deeply ignorant of the realities of injury, illness and aging on an athlete in his mid-30’s.

that’s what he is though

it may have been inevitable but he he had a big break and turned shit upside down and then fizzled

whether or not people feel its a personal issue with him is irrelevant

Fans who are quick to write off Lesnar as a ‘flash-in-the-pan’ in MMA are deeply ignorant of the realities of injury, illness and aging on an athlete in his mid-30’s

Isn’t that the definition of flash in the pan? He came and was then gone…..how are they ignorant to the realities of injury, illness and aging? Why does any of that matter? Whatever the reason he had a very short 8 fight career in which he came in got a championship then got smashed into retirement. You don’t measure a career based on what could have been you base it on what happened

The “what ifs” of Fedor being in the UFC. Now no one cares and he has been written off (at least in the near term). MMA fight legacies have a lag-time because it’s a new sport. It’s easy enough to “place” someone like Royce Gracie in the context of MMA history, but everyone else can be debated (or so it seems).

It might take a few years, but I predict that Lesnar’s place in MMA history will be secured. He will be viewed as emblematic of the sport’s shift from fadish diversion to legitimate contender in the public marketplace of cultural activities.

Yes, maybe he would have been a GOAT from a fighting perspective HAD he started earlier, but then you could make that case about nearly anyone who was born at the wrong time. Maybe Lou Thesz would have been a great MMA fighter… how about Bruce Lee? How about Antonio Inoki? The difference, of course, is that Lesnar DID compete in MMA. He took care of a late-career “what if” and made the most of it. Perhaps he could have made a different choice in the early 2002s, left pro wrestling and gone to PRIDE or the then-troubled UFC. But he would have taken a considerable pay cut. It was a choice.

Aside form the misleading title this article suggests that Lesnar’s career would have been materialy different if he didn’t have the diverticulitis. Doesn’t Meltzeer say that it’s the lack of speed that was his demise? The only thing that prevented him from acheiving more was his late entry to the sport. Does anyone think he would have beat Cain if he was in less pain during training. Or how about if he didn’t have to pull out fo the JDS fight, would he have beaten Junior if he had a disease free training camp? Of course not. The only thing that could made a difference is years of training kickboxing.
He made the most that he could have with the opporitunity that he had. Good for him.

“I invite all the fans who are calling him ‘exposed’ ‘bully’ and ‘front-runner’ to have a foot of their large intestine removed and then get in the cage with Cain Velasquez and Alistair Overeem.”

What would that prove, exactly? If we are not capable of handling Cain and Reem after surgery, that we are not allowed to criticize? That sounds like the stuff Sean Salisbury used to say to John Clayton: “What do you know? You never played in the NFL!”

But wait, wasn’t there all sorts of talk coming out that he refused to spar, or take any leg kicks in training like when he was at Militech when he first started training for MMA? Certainly that was before his first bout with diverticulitis?

someone should tell dave meltzer that every mma fighter that loses a fight not only totally sucks, but was never very good to begin with.

this also applies to champions that fail to finish fights, or who win against people, and then have those same people lose more convincingly to another fighter.

I recently went on a number of web sites like WebMD and NIH and such, looked up diverticulitis and diverticulosis, and found out how my shitty diet is probably putting me at risk. It may well be that Brock’s "legacy’ will be – or could be – as a spokesman for increased awareness of how our diets can affect our health.

If a guy who epitomizes strength, durability, and the peak of human physical potential can be laid low by something that’s possibly preventable, he also could be the object lesson for changing how some of us go about something so basic as feeding ourselves.

Brock’s not an old guy, so none of us should say, “Well, whatever, I’ll worry about my diet when I’m as old as my parents.” The “experts” don’t know what causes the intestinal problems that Brock endured, but they do suspect that diet can help remediate them.

So, who cares what the guy’s legacy in fighting is. He has an opportunity to reach a lot of people – like me, for instance – and wake them up. If he cares enough about it, maybe that’s what his legacy can someday be.

“I invite all the fans who are calling him ‘exposed’ ‘bully’ and ‘front-runner’ to have a foot of their large intestine removed and then get in the cage with Cain Velasquez and Alistair Overeem.”

Yes, because fans with perfectly fine intestines would totally beat Cain/Overeem.

Brock Lesnar: Devastated By Illness At UFC 141

IMO, this sounds like you have actual doctor/scientific evidence/expert advice from a sports physician. Unfortunately it doesn’t seem like you do.

I invite all the fans who are calling him ‘exposed’ ‘bully’ and ‘front-runner’ to have a foot of their large intestine removed and then get in the cage with Cain Velasquez and Alistair Overeem.

That’s just silly. That’s like saying the only people allowed to blog about a subject need to have a PhD or Masters degree on said subject. You as a blogger/pseudo-journalist should realize how crazy that assumption is.

Please do not post a headline reading “Brock Lesnar: Devastated By Illness” when there is no facts to support that contention.
Your article is just guesses from another writer.

I don’t get the Lesnar hate wagon jumping from most. This article made some good points. No way is a guy his age after an illness and surgery like that going to be the same. Right as well on the comments about his biggest advantage to his game being his speed/athleticism (explosiveness for Rogan) and that seemed gone. Honestly though, to me it seemed like his passion was much less than it once was, from the first illness on. And against ‘Reem it seemed like he just didn’t care. But if that ability to explode and take someone down was gone (I nearly typed “explode on a guy” lol) then Brock didn’t have much more… for all his NCAA experience he wasn’t the technical wrestler than many at his level were.

This is the real world and if he was billed as being the greatest thing after beating Randy (who was in his 40s) then he can be beat by CV and Reem who are simply better. Don’t make excuses for him, he said he was healthy and lost leave it at that.