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Brock Lesnar is ill and was forced to postpone his next title defense, tentatively scheduled for UFC 106 in November. The fight will be moved to UFC 108 in January.

Word has it Brock, who’s hardly in need of any of the best appetite suppressants, was apparently felled by the H1N1 (swine flu) virus. That’s a bit ironic for a fellow whose braggadocios ways won him nationwide scorn at UFC 100.

Let’s hope when he returns, he’s not only healthy, but a bit more humble.

Even though Brock Lesnar’s best opponent is with a rival company right now, UFC President Dana White is already talking dreamily about matching Brock Lesnar, the UFC Heavyweight Champ and world’s biggest jerk, up against the best pound-for-pound MMA fighter on the market right now, Fedor Emelianenko. He’s been more hyped than diet supplements on a WWE broadcast.

Said White:

“This whole Fedor thing has been going on and on and on…I keep saying this and that about him and he keeps waiting. Eventually, Fedor’s going to be here. I want Fedor. I want him to come to the UFC and everything else…[Lesnar] just became the heavyweight champion…We’ll end up getting that deal done. And then we’ll do Brock vs. Fedor, and it’ll be a huge fight.”

Right now, with the black eye Lesnar’s unsportsmanlike conduct gave UFC this weekend, I’d be looking for someone to unseat him as quickly as possible if I were Dana White, also.

Former WWE Heavyweight Champion and current UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar may be a Minnesotan these days (he is originally from South Dakota), but his current status following his brutal victory over Frank Mir at UFC 100 Saturday night ought to be, “national embarrassment.”

Lesnar showed absolutely no sportsmanship in the mauling he perpetrated on Mir; Mir was down, bloody and unconscious fairly early in the second round, but that didn’t stop Lesnar from unleashing a barrage of additional, unnecessary and nearly-mutilating blows to the face on his fallen and helpless opponent. Lesnar is to blame for doing it, but even more to blame are the referees who allowed it.

Following his vicious victory, Lesnar flipped off the crowd with both hands, complained about Bud Light not offering him any personal endorsement money, and crassly bragged about “getting on top of” his wife later than night. He did every bad thing one could possibly do to give UFC a black eye, save for downing a bunch of phentermine diet pills in front of fight commission officials. So there’s that. It was a display completely lacking not only in sportsmanship, but in humanity or any recognizable level of manners. Lesnar’s antics made Mike Tyson’s ear-biting incident look like a choir-boy prank.

It also didn’t help that in an earlier fight, another UFC fighter named Henderson took a cheap-shot swing at a clearly knocked-out opponent and then went on to brag that such brutality was necessary to “shut him up.” Whatever. Last I checked, unconscious men don’t talk.

To make matters worse, after the UFC owner read Lesnar the riot act following the crass display, when Lesnar apologized at a press conference, rather than taking responsibility for his own vulgarity, Lesnar blamed his deviltry on his WWE background.

Sorry, Brock, that doesn’t wash; the WWE may be over the top, but people know it’s a drama for adults where real injuries occur only when mistakes happen. The rest is show-biz storytelling. You were in WWE for only about a year; you’ve been Brock Lesnar all your life.

Be a man, Brock, and admit that it’s your own fault you’re a jerk.

Former WWE superstar Bobby Lashley worked his third-ever MMA fight Friday night and destroyed opponent Mike Cook in only 25 seconds, using a guillotine choke for force a submission. Cook came to the ring in a wrestling match to poke fun at Lashley’s pro wrestling background.

Lashley, currently with TNA on the wrestling side, was featured prominently in a Trump vs. McMahon “hair match,” at WrestleMania to years ago and went on to become an ECW champion, as well as a WWE champion, before an injury led to an extended absence and, eventually, his disappearance from the WWE. Lashley is 3-0 as an MMA fighter and is scheduled to face Bob Sapp next month in Mississippi. Let’s hope Lashley doesn’t put Sapp in a Bob stroller.