Q&A: Brock Lesnar on his recovery, WWE vs. UFC, marriage and more
Ramsey Nijem and Tony Ferguson will be in Las Vegas on Saturday night, competing for the fighter contract the UFC awards to the winner of its reality TV show, The Ultimate Fighter . They're the last two survivors in the season-long game of musical chairs.
Also on the TUF 13 finale fight card (Spike, 9 p.m. ET) is a potentially electrifying bout between Anthony "Showtime" Pettis and Clay "The Carpenter" Guida, whose nicknames tell you all you need to know about their respective flashiness and work ethic in the cage.
Who'll not be there? Brock Lesnar.
The former UFC heavyweight champion, who served as a coach on this season's weekly Spike show, was scheduled to face the other coach, Junior dos Santos, in a No. 1 contenders bout at UFC 131 a week from Saturday. But Lesnar pulled out of the fight three weeks ago because of a relapse of diverticulitis, the intestinal disease that sidelined him for nearly a year beginning in the fall of 2009. So dos Santos, who I'm guessing will be in Vegas this weekend to root on Nijem, from his TUF team, now will fight Shane Carwin for a shot at belt holder Cain Velasquez.
Lesnar, meanwhile, faces a long, perilous road to recovery. Last Friday he underwent surgery at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., a procedure in which 12 inches of intestines were removed. "He said he's a little sore," UFC president Dana White updated fans during last Saturday's UFC 130 telecast, "but the operation was a huge success." White expects Lesnar to fight again, but not until next year.
Three days before the surgery, Lesnar spoke with SI.com. His autobiography, Death Clutch: My Story of Determination, Domination and Survival (William Morrow, $26.99), was about to be published, chronicling not just his rise to the top of the UFC but also his amateur wrestling career, which culminated with him winning the 2000 NCAA Division I national championship, and also his seven-year stint in professional wrestling, mostly with the WWE. But much had happened since the end of the story contained within the book jacket. Lesnar was at a crossroads. "I have to face the ultimate decision," he said. "Do I get the surgery or can I keep battling this thing?"
We now know how he resolved that decision. We don't know where his story goes from here.
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