I totally agree steve, I’ve said this before if your going to fight injured don’t bitch when you lose. I only lose respect for fighters like this who take away from the legitimacy of a win by another fighter. If you can’t come into the fight 100% drop out, the UFC has a big enough roster to find another fighter and when your not a huge name fighter they don’t really care that you dropped out so don’t act like they’ll never let you fight again if you dropped the fight due to injury. This guy totally gets a fail and no new fans thats for sure.

You definetly can go for the kill. It has nothing to do with hurting their friends because they all know they are capable of doing it. It has to do with hurt feelings after the fight is over, a grudge or even the possibility of injuring and sidelining a teamate. These guys don’t want to fight each other because they don’t want it to cause a rift in their friendships down the line when one friend stomps another friends dreams of becoming champ. For example Fitch would beat Kos who in turn would beat Swick. Swick doesn’t even belong up there imo but his friends refuse to fight him and refuse to put him in his place. If I ever see Swick against GSP I’ll throw up. total waste of money unless its on a fightnight and then I can watch the overrated Swick get stomped for free which would make me happy.

It’s true that he’s screwed both ways. If he says nothing people will say he is overrated or whatever. If he says he was injured, people will get pissed because he is making excuses.

Personally, I prefer it if a fighter just congratulates the winner and moves on. But I can imagine what goes through the mind of fighter after a loss and feeling the need to explain themselves.

We are some of the most fickle fans there are, but I also think a lot of mma fans, or the ones on the sites and really know what they are talking about, are a little more educated then a lot of other sports fans. I mean educated on the sport itself. With that in mind, if you have an injury that may play into the outcome of a fight you should probably not fight or just not say anything. People don’t want to hear excuses. When I was getting scouted for baseball as a catcher nobody gave a shit whether I was playing hurt or not, just if I could do my job behind the plate and if I couldn’t I was expected to say I need the game off. If I blew the game because my knees were in bad shape and someone got into scoring position off me (stealing a base) my coach, the scouts, and the people in the stands didn’t want to hear I am just coming off of major knee surgery. I don’t know I am starting to ramble now, but the point is-if it the injury is a factor before the fight, don’t fight or if you lose just don’t say anything and go out wit a little class.

I actually find the main stream fans are not fickle, but only us hardcore ones. I have friends who still think Chuck’s the fucking man even with the losses. Hell, most people who are fans barley know about this sight or others. They probably get most of their news from yahoo, espn, or org websites. If they see Fabiano fight again they will barley remember the triangle, they’ll just be like, yo this dudes usually pretty good. It’s only us most hardcore fans that are little bitches, at least in my neck of the woods.

Nog made it clear on several occasions that he had a staph infection prior to the fight and was not at 100%. And no he didn’t come right out and make the excuse…he waited a couple weeks just like Fabiano.

Dana White confirmed the fact that he had a staph infection. He wasn’t the first to announce it. Plus he did it to better hype to Couture fight. If Dana White came out and confimed Fabiano’s cracked rib it wouldn’t make it any less of an excuse.