Forums | Pictures | Members | My Forums | My Profile

Fightlinker
Five Ounces of Pain has an interview up with Sean Sherk covering all sorts of stuff from his steroids trial to his steroids action figure. One thing that really caught my eye (possibly because it was the first thing in the interview and I have ADD) is Sherk basically claiming that the UFC avoided California because they hated working with the CSAC:
Sam Caplan: Did you feel any sense of satisfaction upon hearing that Armando Garcia was going to resign?

Sean Sherk: Yeah, I mean, definitely. There's no love lost there. That's definitely music to my ears. I felt he obviously handled my case very, very poorly and he had handled many other fights very poorly. And he handled the UFC poorly.

You know, the UFC hasn't been back in California since July of '07, after my fight. UFC 73 was the last time they had been there. Now, if the UFC leaves your state and refuses to come back, there's a reason for that. So there's a lot of things going on there and there's a reason why he resigned. It's not coincidence; there's a reason why he resigned and rightfully so.

Dana White was shitting kittens by the end of the CSAC's case against Sean Sherk ... it was delayed about a bazillion times because the commission kept fucking up. While you could attribute the UFC's reluctant return to Cali on slow ticket sales (Stacked w/ Sean, Tito, and Anderson only did 11,000 paid aka BALLS), you have to figure Sean has talked to Dana a few times on the situation. While I still suspect Sherk is a dirty no good liar on the steroid front, I'm ready to believe him on this front.

So all you California people feeling unloved in '08, rejoice! Armando Garcia is gone! The tyrant is dead!
cyph
Why no San Jose love from the UFC? The Bay Area is like the mecca of MMA in California and the HP Arena is far nicer than that piece of crap they call the Arco Arena.
si
My favourite Sherk quote was in part 2, talking about BJ's move to Welterweight:

"To be honest with you, if you’re going to be gone 13, 14, or 15 months, I think you should relinquish the belt."
unclefesterdanawhite
The Bay Area is Strikeforce country. I would not want the UFC to move into there. Strikeforce put on 5 shows in San Jose this year and some of their shows are pretty packed. They had the paid attendance record in North America. UFC 68 beat the attendance record but not paid attendance. I don't know if the Montreal show beat them but it was pretty impressive for a non-Zuffa org to hold a paid attendance record for MMA at one time. Anyway my point is that to have the UFC moving in there and competing for dollars would fuck over Scott Coker's business. And I wouldn't want to see that.
steve4192
Strikeforce is one of the few mid-level organizations that Dana gets along with. I don't think he has any intention of declaring war on them by invading their territory. I think he has too much respect for Scott Coker to try and steal his fanbase.
LR
Tyrant my ass... the board at the CSAC is still in their pretty little seats. Those are the people that should be canned as well. Garcia's recommendations to uphold suspensions even when guys tested positive for TWO or THREE drugs in their systems were always ignored by CSAC board members. They should be axed.

Garcia wasn't the worst problem, it's dealing with these entertainment lawyer/I own a huge ass business, give me an important position people that needs to be taken care of.
Fightlinker
Agreed, Leland. There needs to be some serious housekeeping. That shit with Baroni where the two guys who sided with him on the commission just didn't return from their lunch break? How amateur hour is that.
Not Logged In
Only FL members may reply to forums.















Skyscraper 120 Right 120x600