Bloody Eyebrow

Okay, first of all, check this out:

Did you see that? YouTube sensation and glass-jawed promotion-killer Kimbo Slice is stepping into the ring to fight the criminally underrated champion of the now-defunct International Fight League, Roy “Big Country” Nelson. He got knocked the fuck out by Seth Petruzelli, a TUF-reject and UFC washout, and is now stepping up to face one of the most dangerous men on the planet in a fight that will earn him scale as a bottom-of-the-barrel actor.

Meanwhile, the most highly rated, most highly touted, most amazing heavyweight fighter in the world, Fedor Emelianenko is taking on Brett Rogers, a guy who just quit his job changing tires at Sam’s Club in January. Seriously. Now Brett is currently ranked more highly than Roy, but that’s a) part of the “fighting Fedor bounce” and b) complete and utter bullshit.

The point isn’t that Kimbo is a better fighter or a better man than Fedor. It’s that Kimbo at least has the stones to go out there and test himself against the best fighters he can while Fedor is hiding behind his crooked management team so that he can fight scrubs.

Sack up, Fedor. Book a real fight.

There’s a disagreement brewing on the internet about Sean Sherk dropping out of UFC 104. The question is, did he drop out because he knew he’d fail the drug test or because he was legitimately injured?

Those who argue that he was scared of the test point out that he’d failed a test for PEDs in the past and been suspended for it. Since he never came clean and admitted any wrong-doing, it’s hard to suggest that he learned a lesson from that, even though his explanation that his supplements were tainted was ridiculous, based on the amount detected in his blood.

On the other hand, those who think he was injured point out that he had an MRI taken and sent to the UFC which should constitute all the proof anyone needs. They believe that without evidence of wrong-doing it would be libelous to make any accusations. And some even believe Sherk’s circular explanations for his positive test:

1. He submitted clean urine, but the testing equipment was tainted.
2. He didn’t take steroids, but his supplements tainted his urine with them.

Regardless, with Dave Meltzer reporting that Sherk’s injury occurred a few hours after he was supposed to have given his sample, I think there’s a better answer:

Both.

I like to imagine Sherk finding out about the test, realizing that he couldn’t pass a steroid screen without a few weeks of Golden Seal, and eventually flying into a rage tossing his truck tires and sledgehammers around until he injured himself. What do you think?

Michael David Smith of Fanhouse writes:

Rich Cimini of the New York Daily News reports that Jets outside linebacker Calvin Pace and Saints defensive ends Will Smith and Charles Grant — all of whom will serve four-game suspensions for using banned supplements — are going to spend that time working out at Xtreme Couture, a gym widely regarded as one of the best MMA training facilities in the world.

Which is just great news. I think the guys at Xtreme Couture can learn a lot about banned substances from these NFL players. Stephan Bonnar for one definitely needs to go back to taking steroids if he wants to get back to his winning ways. And these players may have just the insights he needs.

But if Pace and company want to up their game in the realm of performance enhancing drugs, they should really spend some time “training” at Team Hammer House – take a course from Mark Coleman who managed to defeat Bonnar in July at the ripe old age of 44. Maybe he can even give his old pal Phil Baroni a refresher on presenting real urine so he’ll be ready to head back to the UFC.