Lets face it, there’s a stigma against admitting to injury. You drop a fight, you get dissed. You admit to having been injured after losing, you get booed.

Every MMA fighter has continuously nagging injuries that commonly blow up into major ones. It’s what full time training athletes like these deal with. You also have these fighters coming in, and winning. Antonio Silva had a torn MCL when he fought rodriguez, but I haven’t seen anyone commending him for a gutsy win…..all I heard was how boring and slow the fight was. I agree with it, it sucked, but I’m still going to give those fighters every ounce of respect for still stepping up.

Complaints like garth’s are the biggest problem with North American MMA fans. They feel entitled to a fight of the type they expect. You see this in the keyboard pundits everywhere. You hear this in the arenas when the ‘fans’ start to boo because of a feeling out process, or a technical battle on the floor, trading control and position. It’s very frustrating to know that these guys pour they’re hearts and souls into these fights, then get shit for trying to win at whatever cost, beause if you’re not winning, you’re out.

and did you forget about pride? Not the organization, the feeling. Up to three months training camp, and then you expect them to throw that all down the drain because of a small injury they think they can fight with, that they feel they can fight through, because their fans deserve it?

To put these people on par with cheaters is straight up awful. You’re offal. Professional fighters hate submitting….to their opponent, or their own body. Personally, I’d rather lose fighting to win, than quit before I ever took the chance. In putting these fighters in with cheaters, you seem to be saying your little bit of money is worth more than these guys’ time, and effort. And that’s a joke.

Personally, I pay for fights because I never know what’s going to happen, not because I wanna see exactly the fight I want to see, and the fighter I like win. Try to apreciate what the fighters go through to perform for you, instead of criticizing them for working through pain to give their fans what they want.

Sapp was a headliner. nuff said. The only Sapp fight that I’ve ever enjoyed was when he fought Crocop. That was a beatdown!