The other major topic was touched on by Ranallo early in the interview. He asked Brock about his current medical condition and his uncertain future as a fighter (transcription courtesy of Zach Arnold at FightOpinion):
Ranallo: “What is the plan for you, Brock? Are you scheduled to go to the doctor this week, I understand, or what’s the future hold for Brock Lesnar as a Mixed Martial Artist?”
Lesnar: “Yeah, I’m very disappointed. This has not only mentally but this has been very physically strenuous on me, you know, since my first bout with Diverticulitis in 2009. Having to back away from a fight is not something that I think anybody likes to do, surely me, you know, the first time it happened to me and to fall under the same circumstances, I thought I had this thing beaten and I’m very disappointed but getting past that and understand that, you know, my health is very important and I got another doctor’s appointment on Thursday and a consultation where we’re going to go over and just try to figure out the best approach to try to handle this and it may be surgery and it may be not. We’re reviewing other options here to try to help me but, you know, I want to get back into the Octagon sooner than later.”
Ranallo: “So, obviously you, as you stated during the conference call when this first was released, you stick by your guns that your MMA career is not over?”
Lesnar: “No, it’s not over. I mean, I don’t, you know, even talking with the doctors about the possibility of surgery, there’s really, uh, it’s not a career-ending surgery by any means so I just got to weigh out all my options at this time and see if that is the right thing to do or is there’s any other medication that I can be on or any other thing, I don’t know how I can change my diet any more than I have but we’re looking down all avenues right now and I foresee, you know, in the near future that I’ll be able to step back in the Octagon.”
Brock was apparently pretty amused by a question about his nemesis, Frank Mir:Lesnar: “Yeah, I’m very disappointed. This has not only mentally but this has been very physically strenuous on me, you know, since my first bout with Diverticulitis in 2009. Having to back away from a fight is not something that I think anybody likes to do, surely me, you know, the first time it happened to me and to fall under the same circumstances, I thought I had this thing beaten and I’m very disappointed but getting past that and understand that, you know, my health is very important and I got another doctor’s appointment on Thursday and a consultation where we’re going to go over and just try to figure out the best approach to try to handle this and it may be surgery and it may be not. We’re reviewing other options here to try to help me but, you know, I want to get back into the Octagon sooner than later.”
Ranallo: “So, obviously you, as you stated during the conference call when this first was released, you stick by your guns that your MMA career is not over?”
Lesnar: “No, it’s not over. I mean, I don’t, you know, even talking with the doctors about the possibility of surgery, there’s really, uh, it’s not a career-ending surgery by any means so I just got to weigh out all my options at this time and see if that is the right thing to do or is there’s any other medication that I can be on or any other thing, I don’t know how I can change my diet any more than I have but we’re looking down all avenues right now and I foresee, you know, in the near future that I’ll be able to step back in the Octagon.”
Ranallo: “Do you hate Frank Mir?”
(laughter for 10 seconds)
Lesnar: “We’re not going fishing tomorrow, I’ll leave it at that.”
The rest of the interview is quite informative and discusses his recently-released book Death Clutch: My Story of Determination, Domination and Survival. It's definitely worth a listen if you've got the 20 minutes to spare. You can listen to the whole thing here.(laughter for 10 seconds)
Lesnar: “We’re not going fishing tomorrow, I’ll leave it at that.”