What Happens if Brock Never Contracts Diverticulitis?

[ricc505]

Doesn't change the fact he reacted to getting hit worse than my toddler does.

So Brock would have been healthy enough to grift another main event or 2 and then retired.

Quit hitting your toddler. It's the wrong thing to do!

 

[Staph infection]

Doesn't change the fact he reacted to getting hit worse than my toddler does.

So Brock would have been healthy enough to grift another main event or 2 and then retired.

Quit hitting your toddler. It's the wrong thing to do!

He don't want no wimp like Lesnar so he is toughening that toddler up.

 

[OverhandLoop]

He still gets murdered by Overroid and Cain, due to never going to a real camp. It annoys the piss out of me that he never did.

 

[Tito Tapped]

Quit hitting your toddler. It's the wrong thing to do!

It's 2025 we're all about that equality now

 

[Pequeño Corey]

Probably gets that Bud Light sponsorship and lays on his wife a few more times.

 

[surgeyou1]

Still don't see him beating Ubereem or Cain. Just never seemed to fully grasp the standup game.

 

[surgeyou1]

Diverticulitis didn't make him awkward at standup. He got started late and heavyweights are big and goofy. I don't think anything changes.

HW always has and always will be dominated by guys in the 235-245 range. That's why the others -- Brock, Francis -- are just blips.

Comparing Brock to Francis is insane lol. That ain't no blip. He fucked people up for a long time.

 

[swarrrm]

Still don't see him beating Ubereem or Cain. Just never seemed to fully grasp the standup game.

Agreed - there's maybe a handful of guys that would have a chance against Ubereem and Cain and Brock definitely isn't one of them.

 

[jitzmonkey]

Before replying, I’m going to ask a general medical question here since it seems the most appropriate place:
Would it have been avoidable if he’d have eaten his veggies?

As a big “footwork guy,” I’m guessing that he’d have had difficulty with Cain, JDS, and (due to his size) Overeem.
I believe that all three would’ve still proved very difficult due to Brock’s heavy plodding gate

 

[CasualBot]

Catching Randy wasn't impressive.

Cain destroys every version of Brock.

 

[TheNewGame]

Still don't see him beating Ubereem or Cain. Just never seemed to fully grasp the standup game.

Prime JDS had elite TDD/get ups, cardio, and chin to go with his striking. Nightmare for Bork too.

 

[KO Shotz]

Brock's matchups vs Cigano & Reem would've been very interesting if he was healthy.

Against JDS, who knows if Cigano would've been able to stop a healthy Brock from taking him down. Ya JDS had great TDD, but who knows what would've transpired vs a healthy Brock. JDS was being looked at as possibly the best HW ever back in those days, so if he was able to stuff a healthy Brock TD's & beat him then his legend would've been bigger than what it is today. Same goes for Brock tho. If he went on to dominate a guy who was being looked at during those days as the baddest HW on the planet, then Brock's legend would have bounced back.

Against Reem it gets intresting for me because if healthy, I think that matchup looks completley different. Reem obviously pieces Brock up standing no matter what, but if we are talking about a completley healthy Brock who has all his strength & hasn't been cut open, he would be taking Reem down at some point. Where it's intriguing for me is once that fight goes to the ground. Would Brock control that fight? Would Brock finish Reem? Or would Reem catch Brock with something off his back? Who knows?

Cain beats Brock no matter what imo.

 

[Deceasedxo]

Cain wrecks him in the exact same way. Overeem probably still tkos him.

 

[orca]

crazy alot of people think he beats prime jds.
prime jds has like the best tdd in every weight class at that time..even the best wrestler in cain is having a hard time taking him down

i dont think brock has the tools that could beat jds

jds would uppercut his face

 

[wufabufa]

Cain wrecks him either way, probably Overeem too. If he stuck around long enough for USADA in 2015/2016 he'd be sidelined and run away to pro-rasslin anyway. Comfortably top 5 then TKO by piss tests.

 

[Deceasedxo]

crazy alot of people think he beats prime jds.
prime jds has like the best tdd in every weight class at that time..even the best wrestler in cain is having a hard time taking him down

i dont think brock has the tools that could beat jds

jds would uppercut his face

100% agree

 

[Ibm]

He'd have done a lot better but a mysterious striker would have eventually beat him

 

[Vayn Sword]

More than likely there would be no Brock without diverticulitis. You abuse roids your whole life somethings gotta give - in this case it's his gut.
I predict Brock will soon die from a coronary or something similiar.

 

[Dr. Rose]

I think so as well, but I think he has a very good chance of beating JDS. IDK about Ubereem tho, he would have to get him down and keep him there. But those 2 are really the only ones I can think of that Brock would 100% have serious problems with

I think so as well, but I think he has a very good chance of beating JDS. IDK about Ubereem tho, he would have to get him down and keep him there. But those 2 are really the only ones I can think of that Brock would 100% have serious problems with

I watched the Reem Brock fight with some buddies at a bar, and during the last combos before Brock went down, someone shouted that Reem "kicked him in the diverticulitis." Even now, when I think about it, it still makes me laugh my ass off.

 

[fzoid4454]

I'm not sure most people understand just how ill Brock was during that time period...

On October 2, Lesnar pulled out of his Carwin bout due to an illness. UFC President Dana White said Lesnar had been ill for three weeks, claiming he had never been this sick in his life and that it would take him a while to recover, therefore his fight with Carwin was rescheduled for UFC 108 on January 2, 2010. Lesnar initially sought treatment in Canada, but later told reporters that he had received "Third World treatment" at a hospital in Brandon, Manitoba and that seeking better treatment in the United States saved his life. Lesnar went on to criticize Canadian health care further and stated that he shared his experience to speak "on the behalf of the doctors in the United States that don't want health care reform to happen".

On November 4, it was confirmed that Lesnar had mononucleosis and that his bout with Carwin would have to wait a bit longer and the fight for Lesnar's heavyweight championship was canceled. On November 14 at the UFC 105 post-fight conference, White stated, "[Lesnar]'s not well and he's not going to be getting well anytime soon" and that an interim title match might need to be set up. In addition to mononucleosis, it was revealed that he had developed a serious case of diverticulitis, an intestinal disorder, which required surgery. After further diagnosis, Lesnar underwent surgery on November 16 to close a perforation in his intestine that had been leaking fecal matter into his abdomen, causing pain, abscesses and overtaxing his immune system to the point that he contracted mononucleosis. From the level of damage to Lesnar's system, the surgeon estimated that the intestinal condition had been ongoing for around a year.



That shit is crazy to me. That means that Brock had fought and defeated Randy Couture and Frank Mir with a hole in his intestine and literal shit leaking into his torso.



He manages to beat Carwin, a great, gutsy performance... which IMO really used up all the remaining strength his body had to keep fighting and taking damage. Then he fights and loses to Cain, in a lackluster effort that really wasn't close to his showings in previous fights... and a few months later...

Lesnar was advertised as a coach of The Ultimate Fighter Season 13, opposite Junior dos Santos, with the two expected to fight on June 11 at UFC 131, but he was struck with another bout of diverticulitis and had to withdraw from the fight on May 12. He was replaced by Shane Carwin, who ended up losing against dos Santos. Lesnar underwent surgery on May 27 to help battle his problems with diverticulitis. White said that he had a 12-inch piece of his colon removed.

So he very possibly could have went into that fight sick again, and/or re-opened the wound during the fight. But his fighting career at that point was pretty much over, his body just could not take the punishment anymore.

I honestly have no clue exactly how things would have gone had he not gotten so sick, but I do think he would have held the title multiple times... he was just such a strong athletic freak and his skills would have only improved with each fight. I think a lot of the "he didn't like to get hit" was kind of overblown, and in part due to the state he was in at the time. The dude fucking got mashed up by Carwin for a round, didn't quit and finished him, and signed up to fight other guys with extremely good striking... never ducking anyone.

What do you all think?




WAR BROCK!!!!

Fortunate that doctors are generally barred from talking about patient's private health information.

This means that people like Dana and Brock get to make up ridiculous nonsense about how insanely fucked up they were, and we're supposed to take their wild claims at face value. If Brock had "literal shit leaking into his torso" he'd be dead from sepsis in hours, not months.

So, if he didn't contract divirticulitis, he still doesn't react well to taking a punch, and his intestine has nothing to do with his chin.