Brock Lesnar’s recent sickness has raised more questions than you can shake a stick for the UFC and Dana White. Will Brock Lesnar ever fight again? What to do with the title? Who should be in the interim title fight? Who should fight Carwin next? There are clearly more questions than answers at this point, particularly when you consider Nog and Gonzaga have staph infection and Carwin is taking some time off to recover from minor surgery and see his child be born. UFC heavyweights are dropping like flies right now, leaving only two blue chip, up and comers and a slew of rebounding vets to vie for attention.
The biggest question the UFC HW division faces regards weather or not Brock Lesnar will ever fight again. This is the biggest and unfortunately least answerable question we have. My gut tells me that we will see Brock sometime after November 2010. The Ultimate 2010 could be primed for a unification fight or we could have to wait a bit longer. At the end of the day, its all a guess. Brock may or may not fight again and his influence on the sport will be a topic for discussion when we know more. In the mean time an interim title fight seem inevitable Unfortunately the two most marketable prospects are out injured. Shane Carwin was told he would get a title shot and it seems pretty reasonable to assume that he will either fight for the interim title or he will get the first crack after one is crowned. If the UFC doesn’t decide to crown a champion before Carwin and/or Nog are ready to return it seems pretty reasonable to expect them to fight when they are healthy. I for one hope to see the UFC crown a champion a bit sooner, say… January. Many rumors continue to fly that Velasquez and Nog will push their date back and Junior Dos Santos will act as welcoming committee for a former champion returning to the UFC (yet to be specified), but I think that if Dos Santos and Velasquez are read and willing they should be lined up for one another.
Being booked to fight at UFC 108 has seemed like n injury sentence for the big boys but Junior Dos Santos and Cain Velasquez remain standing. The two unbeatens seem to be the last two HWs worth mentioning in line for a title shot and not on the shelf till March. However, only rumors circulate about the possibility of the two meeting one another at the first UFC show of 2010. The fight makes entirely too much sense for me to imagine them actually passing on it, leading me to presume the question of weather or not an interim title should be on the line is being discussed behind the scenes. The UFC needs champions and despite the lack of marketability that these two fighters bring to the table, they could put a title around a waist and set up a potential unification bout in the future. Neither man would bring a ton of credibility by themselves to a fight with Lesnar, even if they got a win or two under their belts. However, unification bouts always bring about interest. Considering how quickly the ear is coming to an end it would seem pretty certain that we will hear something regarding Dos Santos’ opponent for UFC 108 this week, which will tell us a great deal about the UFC’s plans for the division. His opponent will in one way or another implicate Velasquez’s next fight, which will in turn implicate Nog and Carwin’s next fights as well. Some clarity should come sooner rather than later but until then, The UFC needs to pull out all the stops to lift the recent injury curse placed upon them.
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