Crippling injuries are a part of sports and when you are involved in sports as physical as the UFC, injuries and pain become almost a part of the routine. But career crippling injury is a whole different story and the UFC champ Brock Lesner is currently facing a situation that could mean the end of his fighting career. Lesnar has been diagnosed with some sort of serious intestinal problem that UFC president Dana White says requires a ‘major surgery’. Now you might think people have come out of major surgeries before to resurrect careers, but when doctors tell you ‘you might never fight again’, things can never be too good.

Lesner was a revelation in the world of professional sports with his impressive physical specimen and despite his very limited in-ring talent made a huge name for himself in the WWE before he jumped ship and decided to join UFC. His career has always been full of promise and just when people though that Brock would fulfill that promise the current illness has put him out once again.

While fans and non-fans alike are wishing Brock the very best, Lesner himself could probably take heart from the life of one ‘Shawn Michaels’ who suffered a crippling back injury in 1998 and still came back in 2002 to WWE ring to work again fulltime. Hopefully Brock Lesner will script a similar fairytale in the UFC…

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