Aleksander Emelianenko says late medicals were cause for absence from Affliction card
July 30, 2008 by Adam Morgan
Aleksander Emelianenko, in an interview with Life.ru, discussed his absence from the Affliction: Banned card two weeks ago. Translation from MMA Mania:
I passed the medical board and my license to fight was obtained without any problems. But the fact is that in California the commission is very rigid for admittance. One of the main conditions to let you fight is the ability to pass all of your tests on time. I had to be in America by July 13, the Visa was only good until the fourteenth and my tickets were purchased in advance for the fifteenth. On the whole, I was late. They thought the organizers could agree and settle the problem but they quickly found out they would not be able to get me on the card. Instead they were able to find a suitable replacement for Paul Buentello. The laws in California are so rigid.
The MMA world was afire with rumors regarding Emelianenko’s absence from the Affliction card two weeks ago, with hepatitis being the leading rumor. According to Emelianenko, those rumors are completely false. It’s not hard to believe that California denied him a license due to late medicals as they’ve done this kind of thing before. Armando Garcia doesn’t play around. If you’re late with your medicals then you aren’t fighting in California, period.
If it’s true that Emelianenko was only held off the card because of late medicals then it’s much better news than the rumor that he has hepatitis. I’d love to see him fight on U.S. soil against Affliction’s heavyweights and there would be almost no chance of him fighting if he had hepatitis. Late medicals we can work with. Hepatitis? Not so much.
I personally think there should be a boycott by MMA as whole against the CSAC. I am sick of hearing how the CSAC screw fighters and fights.
If MMA events choose to not hold any more events until the CSAC can get it together, then the CSAC sees no revenue anymore.
CSAC official Bill Douglas said the results they found will keep him out of all 50 states and his request for licensure was officially rejected. so yeah, Aleks is full of it.
Sprewell,
Do you have a link or a story pertaining to that? Not questioning you, I would just like to read it.
Douglas said it in an interview with Bryan Alvarez at F4Wonline.com, I’m sure you can contact Douglas to confirm.
I can never get past the C-Section tattoo.
Thats good, because if you got past the c-section tat youd have to deal with the swastika tats.
http://www.alex.mixfight.ru/multimedia/photos/tattoo/95/
Whoever started the hepatitis rumor is a complete jerk. I can’t wait to see him fight in vegas.
I really hope Aleks will get his name cleared the next time around. I’d like to see him be able to compete again. He is a great talent and it would be a shame if he couldn’t fight anymore.
I would like to hear some of the fighters’ opinon about the CSAC. We’ve had a lot of high profile fight’s cancelled one way or another over the last two year’s. I’d like to hear a bit of insight as to what they think. Professional and/or amatuer fighter’s would be good.
[...] Emelianenko has finally offered up a reason for being pulled off the Affliction card last second: late paperwork. I passed the medical board and my license to fight was obtained without any problems. But the fact [...]
If it’s true then the CSAC knew he wasn’t going to fight on the 13th when he didn’t show up , and should’ve said something at that time, instead of stringing everyone along. The fight was on the 19th dammit. 6 days. Thank god for Big Daddy but even he could’ve had more than one days notice.
i’m so sick of all the atheltic commisions in the US. they are ruining mma, at least in america. look at how ufc is going downhill. dont get me wrong, i am an american and it is the best country. but all these regulations ruin everything. its even worse in michigan. they have to have amateur mma events on indian reservations so its not within state limits. affliction is awesome, but it would be even better in japan.
MMA is legal in MI, passed in May 2008. Cage Rage just ran at Mohegan Sun, the Palace of Auburn Hills regularly runs cards with local MMA fighters, as does the Wyandotte Sports Arena.