By
Jason Comack 
November 15, 2009, at 12:17 am
The list of injured UFC super stars is currently bigger then the list of healthy ones.
Brock Lesnar is out of action indefinitely. Dana White shed light on Lesnar’s illness:
“He’s in a hospital up in North Dakota somewhere right now,” said White. “He went to Canada and some bad stuff happened to him, so we’ve got to figure it out.
“He doesn’t want to talk about it publicly, but he’s in bad shape. He’s not well and he’s not going to be getting well anytime soon.”
In a word that’s very cryptic.
“He has other problems too,” continued White, fielding a question about his diagnosis of mononucleosis. “He is not good. He is very, very sick and he’s going to be out for a while.”
White went on to indicate that the creation of an interim title might be necessary.
In a word WOW. God knows what’s wrong with Lesnar but White’s words almost make it seem…life threatening almost?
“You know, I can’t really talk about it right now, but he’s in rough shape. He’s in really bad shape … and we’re going to have to do some stuff to take care of this guy. He is not well and he’s not getting any better.
I hope Lesnar can beat whatever this is. Despite my distaste for him as a fighter he’s still a big part of what makes MMA so great, The David trying to beat the Goliath. This of course puts the UFC in a big bind. Lesnar/Carwin sapped UFC 106 of a main event then UFC 108 of a main event. Now it would be easy to have Velasquez/’Nog be a for the interim heavyweight title and have that headline UFC 108, except for one giant problem. ‘Nog has a staph infection and has withdrawn from the fight.
“White said the infection had become serious after entering Nogueira’s blood stream and that the Brazilian might need to be hospitalized and fed an intravenous antibiotic to combat it.”
Awesome. Now the next logical step would be to put Carwin against Velasquez, a fight that was originally suppose to go down way back when and have it be for the interim title. Of course there’s only one giant problem.
“White said an alternate pairing between Velasquez and Carwin would not be possible, as Carwin recently underwent knee surgery while waiting for Lesnar to recover. Carwin posted on his Twitter account Saturday that he should be “ready to fight by Feb.”
So what now?
It looks like someone will be fighting Cain Velasquez for the interim title on January 2nd the question is who…
Already Ruled Out: Antonio Rodrigo Nogueira, Shane Carwin, Brock Lesnar
Frank Mir: Scheduled to fight Kongo at UFC 107. However, coming off a loss in his last fight (Lesnar) can you put him in an interim title fight right now? Can you also afford to take him off the already weak 107 card?
Junior Dos Santos: Already scheduled to fight Gabriel Gonzaga at UFC 108 so the timing works out. 3-0 in the UFC with dominant wins over Werdum, Struve and Cro-Cop justify his spot in a title fight.
Other then those two no one else really deserves a chance. Cro-Cop has been awful, Rothwell just got killed by Cain, Gonzaga is a solid fighter but recently lost to Carwin, Kongo lost to Velasquez in his last fight and Struve lost to Dos Santos.
To me there’s only one option and that’s Dos Santos vs. Velasquez for the interim title at 108. You can find a live body to replace Dos Santos in his fight against Gonzaga (someone like Chase Gromely.) 108 is deep enough that you can push that fight off the main card without trouble.
The UFC certainly is having a rough end of the year.
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