Brock Lesnar's Health In Question; Blame Canada?

A man who made his MMA debut under the K-1 banner, Brock Lesnar has apparently succumbed to the ways of living like a mountain man. What was first reported as a bout with Mono (the kissing disease!) has apparently taken a turn for the worse. Dana White briefly touched upon Brock's illness in the post-fight press conference at UFC 105.

White said Lesnar collapsed while spending time on a retreat in Canada and was checked into a hospital.

"[Lesnar] is in bad shape, and the reality is they don't really know all that's wrong with him," White said. "He owns a bunch of property in Canada. He went up to Canada just to get away from his house, to go up there and just kind of chill out up there. 

"He [expletive] dropped. He went down, and he had to go to the hospital. They ran every test on the planet on him, and they ended up finding out something else was wrong with him."

White said he's not yet sure what the UFC will do regarding the heavyweight division with its champion on the shelf for an indeterminable amount of time.

"If it's a long wait, we're gong to have to do something," White said. "We're going to have to – the last thing I ever want to do is strip a guy who won a title. That's the last thing I want to do. I don't know if we'll have to do an interim or what we'll do to fix it."

White said there's still more questions than answers surrounding his heavyweight champion, but one thing was certain: Lesnar will be on the shelf for the foreseeable future.

Honestly, going to Canada might not of been the best idea, what with all the SARS and public healthcare. What else is plaguing the UFC? How about Big Nog? Oh, right, he has another rough bout with staph infection. Ouch.

A planned UFC 108 bout between heavyweight contenders Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira (32-5-1 MMA, 3-1 UFC) and Cain Velasquez (7-0 MMA, 5-0 UFC) has been called off due to a severe staph infection currently affecting "Big Nog."