Shane Carwin Quickly Accepts Opportunity to Put Himself Back in Title Contention

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Ken Pishna
Shane Carwin at the Grudge Training Center

Shane Carwin at the Grudge Training Center

It is sometimes odd how the winds of change alter life.

Former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar felt the cold wisp of the wind on Thursday as he had to drop out of his proposed number one contenders bout with Junior dos Santos at UFC 131 in June. Lesnar is again battling diverticulitis.

He’ll have some tough medical decisions to make in the coming days, weeks, and months, but he has declared he’s not giving in without a fight, and plans to one day return to the Octagon.

Stepping in for him at UFC 131 in Vancouver is former UFC interim heavyweight champion Shane Carwin.

“Junior is a serious fight and not the type of fight that you would normally take on a 30 day notice, but I have a dream to chase and I do not have a lot of time to chase it,” Carwin wrote on his web site on Thursday. “This is an opportunity to put myself in contention for the title. I know my coaches will have me ready so I have everything to gain.”

Jason Genet, Carwin’s manager, told MMAWeekly.com that, just as it would have been for Lesnar, a win by Carwin will earn him a shot at current UFC heavyweight champion Cain Velasquez.

Carwin has had to undergo his own battle, although not life threatening like Lesnar’s, dealing with a problem called lactic acidosis. It’s a condition that caused his body to basically start to shut down during his fight with Lesnar at UFC 116 last summer.

Carwin has been working for months to make sure the problem doesn’t recur, and believes he has it under control. He was already on the card for UFC 131, expecting to take on Octagon newcomer Jon Olav Einemo.

UFC president Dana White said on Thursday that they haven’t yet addressed a new opponent for Einemo.

“My manager said, ‘This is where you belong,’” Carwin wrote, “and I am going to make sure I do everything I can to prove him right.”

“I hope Brock is able to recover,” he added. “I look forward to facing him again one day.”

so obviously if carwin wins he will get a title shot?
ohh hooo i see cain getting kod in the first round >.<

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Carwin for HW champ!!!!!!!!!

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Carwin for HW champ!!!!!!!!!

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Not gonna happen.

i think carwin can beat jds and cain also
carwin has good wrestling
and has way better stand up than brock
not to mention cain has a glass chin
look at his fight with cheick congo
he got rocked at the beginning of all 3 rounds and it just just a straight

Brent, Glass chin means getting hit and not recovering good, or at all a.k.a K.O. Unfortunately casters may call getting rocked due to a punch glass chin. People with iron chins are not the ones who can just walk through punches, but can also recover from them and get the an advantageous position. Great cardio also helps with the strength of the chin ( chin is metaphor), since a body with a great cardiovascular system can deliver blood to areas in brain which has been dry due to the severe movement of the head in one direction, which in mnay cases is the major reason of a knock out in the first place.

So I believe Cain Does not have a glass chin, but we will see if I am right or wrong when he fights Jr. or Carwin.