Brock Lesnar's title fight against Shane Carwin is just days away as the two meet this Saturday night in the main event at UFC 116

Heavyweight Champion Lesnar can currently be backed at 4/6 with 888sport, who are offering a £20 RISK FREE bet on the fight.

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Interim champion Carwin, who beat Frank Mir back at UFC 111 to earn the big-money pay-per-view clash with Lesnar, can be backed at 11/10.

Their first meeting was originally set for UFC 106 last November, before a rescheduled date for UFC 108 in January was announced. But champion Lesnar was forced out of both events due to a severe case of diverticulitis, which at one point was life-threatening.

Ahead of Saturday's big-money main event, Lesnar recently said of his illness and time on the sidelines: "I laid in a hospital bed for over two weeks without any food in my body. I couldn’t put any food in my mouth.

"I lost 42lbs at that time. The doctors didn’t want my stomach to do any work so they fed me intravenously. I had two PICC lines, one in my right arm and one in my left.

"To wake up every day to be on all them drugs and not be able to put any food in your mouth...you definitely take a different approach on life. You realise that there’s nothing more important in life than your family and you really find out who your friends are when you’re laying.

"I felt like I was on my deathbed. I really did, you know, because I was very sick. This illness...it kills a lot of people and it’s one of those things that I never even knew I had."

Lesnar admitted that he wasn't sure if he'd fight again - or even if he'd want to fight again.

"Everything was in the air...because I’d lost so much weight," he added.

"I thought I was going to have to have major surgery and have part of my colon removed and that would have been a two-year process for me to even come back from.

"I really feel like like I’m a cat with nine lives. I think I’ve got about eight left."

While Lesnar's return is a remarkable one, punters should perhaps be weary of backing the former pro wrestler against an opponent in Carwin who is yet to be taken to a second round in a professional fight.