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Former WWE and TNA wrestler Bobby Lashley has been pulled from June’s big Strikeforce card, due to a knee injury. Lashley, who has posted an impressive 5-0 record in his MMA career thus far, was scheduled to headline the card.

The fight, scheduled for Los Angeles, has no HGH connections; Lashley is considered a rising Strikeforce star, though he has not yet drawn the interest of UFC President Dana White.

The injury is believed to be minor; Lashley’s fight will be rescheduled once his injury and rehab process have been more closely evaluated.

Former WWE star Brock Lesnar is apparently fully recovered from a severe case of diverticulitis that, had things gone less favorably, could have ended his UFC career. Appearing with UFC president Dana White on SportsCenter, Lesnar said he is now fully recovered and hopes to return to the ring “sometime this summer.”

That would make it a nearly one-year absence from the ring for the reigning UFC Heavyweight Champ, who last battled Frank Mir in July at UFC 100. Upon his return, Lesnar is expected to face the winner of the March bout between Mir and Shane Carwin.

You can bet Lesnar’s recovery required a lot more than merely the best anti wrinkle cream money could buy; he received help from local doctors in North Dakota, as well as from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

Talk about getting out of Daddy’s shadow!

The latest word on the street is that once he leaves WWE on January 1, Shane McMahon will be looking to gain a financial interest in UFC and become one of the mixed martial arts promotions’ executives. No word from UFC president Dana White on whether UFC would even be open to this, though Shane O’Mac definitely has the financial wherewithal to support such a bid.

With his marketing experience and global connections, McMahon could help UFC expand as a global brand; the question is whether he’d be welcomed in, due to his ties to pro wrestling. And it’s unlikely he’d have any major role in the on-screen product.

Has Shane McMahon suddenly gone off the deep end? Is he in need of drug rehab? Nah… he’s not that bad off. He’s just realized that WWE will probably be Steph’s toy, so now he’s out looking for one of his own.

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 champion Brock Lesnar upset Randy Couture over the weekend to win his first UFC title and becoming the first person to ever win WWE and UFC titles. Although Lesnar currently wants nothing to do with his pro-wrestling background, his unique achievement is nevertheless one for the record books.

Lesnar has been a dominant monster ever since his NCAA wrestling days at the University of Minnesota, and although he tried and failed to make the Minnesota Vikings as a defensive lineman, the ultimate fighting path he’s on now puts him back in more familiar territory.

Never one who needed a diet pill, Lesnar’s hulking physique and aggressive attitude have finally won him the legitimacy he’s longed for.