Brock Lesnnar Will Not Be The Next Bo Jackson, Hopefully

UFC Heavyweight Champion Brock Lesnar was released from a hospital in Bismark, ND, Tuesday and he is currently recovering at his home in Minnesota from Mononucleosis and a serious bacterial infection in his intestinal tract.

Last month, Lesnar (4-1), the 2000 NCAA heavyweight wrestling champion at the University of Minnesota, was forced to cancel his scheduled title defense at UFC 106 against Shane Carwin (11-0) due to a previously undisclosed illness.

The bout versus Carwin, 34, was almost immediately rescheduled for UFC 108 in early-2010.

However, Lesnar, 32, indefinitely postponed his slated match with Carwin last week because his illness had yet to subside.

“Brock’s very, very sick,” UFC President Dana White told TMZ. “He’s not well and he’s not going to be getting well anytime soon.”

White said that Lesnar’s condition would necessitate “major surgery.”

Last July in Las Vegas, Lesnar avenged his only defeat as a professional mixed martial artist when he pulverized past titlist Frank Mir (12-4) with strikes and won by TKO in the second round.

Lesnar, a former three-time WWE champion who was invited to try out for the Minnesota Vikings in 2004, is UFC’s glittering attraction and he seemed destined to dominate his division for the foreseeable future.

“There’s a possibility Lesnar will never fight again,” said White of the native of South Dakota.

If Lesnar is unable to return to UFC, it will be one of the most premature and unfortunate retirements in recent sports history.

In January 1991, spectacular Los Angeles Raiders running back Bo Jackson suffered a serious hip injury during a playoff game against the Cincinnati Bengals.

Jackson, a young 28-year-old at the time he was injured, was an all-time elite athlete who absolutely excelled on both the gridiron for the Raiders and on the baseball diamond for the Kansas City Royals.

The trauma Jackson suffered to his hip was so severe that he was obligated to instantly retire from the sport of football and he was relegated to simply being a designated hitter in 1993 for his new team, the Chicago White Sox.

Jackson, the 1985 Heisman Trophy winner, would have inevitably continued to dominate his two sports for many years had he not been so badly wounded.

Unfortunately, Jackson was never physically able to maximize his potential and his legacy is not nearly as accomplished as it should have been on the field.

If Lesnar never again enters the octagon, the sport of MMA will be deprived of watching a prime superstar in a similar manner to the way that football and baseball were when they lost Jackson nearly 20 years ago.

“This is who I am,” Lesnar once said. “I am a fighter.”

As Nike made clear, Bo Jackson “knew” sports and he thrived competing in them.

Brock Lesnar knows how to fight and that is one of the reasons he is nicknamed, “The Next Big Thing.”

Fans of mixed martial arts should hope that “The Next Big Thing” is not the second coming of Bo Jackson.

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