According to a report on Sherdog, Brock Lesnar is out of his scheduled Heavyweight title fight at UFC 106 in November against Shane Carwin due to a bad illness.
UFC president Dana White stated, "He's never been this sick in his life. He said it's been going on for a long time and he just hasn't been able to shake it."
White did shoot down the rumors that Lesnar had contracted the swine flu virus, but didn't go into specific detail on what the illness is that is keeping Lesnar off the UFC 106 card.
Reason Lesnar Pulled Out, New Rumored Date For The Fight
To update our previous report on Brock Lesnar's UFC 106 fight being cancelled, apparently it is because Lesnar has been suffering from a severe flu for almost a full month.
Basically, Brock Lesnar has still yet to shake the illness and felt he wouldn't have enough time to properly prepare for the November fight.
According to reports, UFC contacted Shane Carwin and told him right now that the tenative plan is to have the fight rescheduled for UFC 108 on January 2nd, 2010 in Las Vegas. That card was originally scheduled to be headlined by Rashad Evans vs. Thiago Silva, which if the Lesnar-Carwin fight is added as currently planned, would then become the co-main event for the event.
Credit: Matt Boone @ wrestlezone.com
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