Brock Lesnar Pulls Out of UFC 106

According to Yahoo Sports, Brock Lesnar has been forced to withdraw from his title defense against Shane Carwin at UFC 106. According to Dana White, Lesnar had been sick for 3 and-a-half weeks with the flu and has been unable to train. Since he would no longer be at his best for the Nov.21 fight in Las Vegas, he decided to postpone it.

Despite Carwin calling out Lesnar for his past several times during the build to the big matchup according to FightLine, he had no criticism for Brock when asked about the situation. "My heart just sank, as you can imagine," Carwin said. "Hopefully, we'll get it rescheduled soon."

Carwin also said on his twitter, "I had H1N1 myself and I understand how devastating it can be". (It should be noted that White said that they don't think Lesnar has the swine flu). Carwin also confirmed on his twitter that the fight would be reschedules for January 2^nd, which is UFC 108, a card that already features Rashad Evans vs. Thiago Silva, Gabriel Gonzaga vs. Junior dos Santos, and Tyson Griffin vs. Jim Miller.

While UFC 108 looks to be in good shape, this leaves UFC 106 without its main event. UFC's website has already moved the original co-main event, Tito Ortiz vs. Forrest Griffin to the main event slot, and is now billing UFC 106 as "Ortiz vs. Griffin 2". This still leaves the card as a whole a bit lacking on starpower, but according to MMAJunkie, there is a chance that Antonio Nogueira vs. Luis Cane will be added to the card, which should give the card some much needed star power with Brock Lesnar out. Eitherway, Lesnar is proven to seriously boost buyrates, so there is almost no chance that UFC 106 now does as well financially as it was originally expect to, though that financial success should now transfer over to UFC 108.

Now the big hope for every UFC fan is that Lesnar gets over his bout with the flu quickly so the fight isn't postponed again, and so that Lesnar can be 100% for his high profile title defense.