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UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar is
still sick, weeks after withdrawing from his title defense match.


      UFC president Dana White confirmed to The Associated Press on
Sunday that Lesnar is in "rough shape." A report on Canadian
sports network TSN's Web site says Lesnar collapsed in Canada.


      White says he can't divulge details about what's wrong with Lesnar, 32, a native of South Dakota who wrestled for the University
of Minnesota. But White says Lesnar's illness is serious and that he'll be out for a while.


      Lesnar announced in October he was withdrawing from his upcoming
title defense match due to an unspecified illness. That match,
originally scheduled for Nov. 21, was pushed back to January. But
TSN reports the fight has been postponed again.

      Messages left with Lesnar's manager and agent were not
immediately returned Sunday.

Lesnar, who was a wrestling star at the University of Minnesota, is in "rough shape," according to the UFC. But the organization did not divulge the nature of Lesnar's condition.

UFC heavyweight champ Brock Lesnar seriously ill

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