CSAC medically suspends people for half a year
June 5, 2008 – 9:49 am by fightlinker
Someone needs to tell the California State Athletic Commission that it’s “Safety First”, not “Stupidity First”. The medical suspensions from last weekend’s WEC show have just been announced, and they are fucking moronic:
- Alex Nogueira: 60-day suspension due to a cut; coincides with a 45-day suspension (with no contact for 30 days) due to suffering a knockout
- Luis Do Santos: 45-day suspension with no contact for 30 days due to suffering a knockout
- Jeremy Lang: 180-day suspension days due to a left-ankle injury; coincides with 60-day suspension for a cut and a 45-day suspension (with no contact for 30 days) due to suffering a knockout
- Will Robeiro: 180-day suspension due to a right-hand injury (can be cleared early by doctor)
- Rob McCullough: 60-day suspension due to a cut
- Chuck Grigsby: indefinite suspension due to a head injury (must be cleared by a doctor)
- Mark Munoz: 180-day suspension due to a right-hand injury
- Yoshiro Maeda: 180-day suspension due to a right-eye orbital injury; coincides with 45-day suspension with no contact for 30 days due to suffering a knockout
- Miguel Torres: 60-day suspension due to a cut
- Jens Pulver: 180-day suspension due to a right-eye orbital injury
- Urijah Faber: 180-day suspension due to a right-hand injury (can be cleared early by doctor)
I’m really interested in knowing who’s bright idea it was to suspend guys for 180 days without the option of an early clearance from a doctor. For those of you who don’t like using their brains on that math shit, 180 days is six goddamn months. Some of these guys should have done steroids and smoked some mad weed right before the show. They might have gotten off EASIER.
Between the CSAC and the NJAC, I’m starting to suspect a conspiracy where fights are stopped earlier and earlier and medical suspensions are made longer and longer until it becomes “First person to land a punch wins, loser gets suspended for 9 months.”
