You’re doing a great deal of rambling without providing much of a point. Randleman, Sylvia et al. were all suspended and suspended in about the same manner b/c they clearly violated the rules and there are precedents that have been set as to how long the suspensions will be.

Phil Baroni was suspended b/c he punched and official in the face multiple times…how is that any requirement of discretion on the NSAC’s behalf?? He broke the rules – he laid his hands on an official and no doubt he was given a penalty in line with what is normally given to fighter’s who assault officials. Very few people (who aren’t drolling trolls on some forum) are making a huge outcry for Yvel not getting licensed. I’m not sure whether or not Yvel faced sanctioning for his actions that occurred in 2004, but if he did and the sanctioning was completed and honoured then I would think that it would seem unfair to continue to punish a fighter who was already punished and had “served his time” so to speak.

And as far as the whole Rogan-Mancia thing goes, obviously Mancia’s agent hasn’t seen how the mainstream media (or at least G4TV) has treated the web video between those two. If they did, they would be thinking that Mancia was going to do a B-rated buddy cop film with Michael Richards a couple of years from now. I guess Mancia’s agent is banking on the next season of his show being very good.

1) The commissions arbitrarily choosing what fights should go based on ‘mismatches’ is not a process without some level of ignorance or hypocrisy.

2) Defending Wes Sims is usually not much of a winning argument to support point #1.

Yet these “fans” are claiming that the NSAC has it in it for Pride, by not granting Gilbert Yvel a license. Everyone in their right mind could’ve told them that he’d never get a license. Not from the NSAC, not from the CSAC, from none of the State Athletic Comissions. Here’s a guy who was repeatedly disqualified for unsportsmanlike conduct, here’s a guy who not just “accidently” poked someone in the eye like say Belfort, but intentionally tried to gouge out Don Fryes eye. A “fighter” (and i use that term very loosely), who punched a referee out, broke his jaw, and then started to stomp away on his limp body. And contrary to Baroni, who openly apologized for his actions, Yvel never apologized, but instead tried to justify what he did. Yet it is the NSAC that doesn’t want Pride to succeed, and give the fans a fight between Yvel and Kharitonov, and therefore didn’t grant Yvel a license. Not the NSAC keeping out a dirty fighter, and protecting other athletes from a violent, uncontrolable idiot.

They are claiming that they suspended Randleman because he fought for Pride, not the UFC. No, they suspended him indefinetely because he intentionally tried to deceive them by providing a fake urine sample. Guys like Sylvia ‘fessed up, got their suspension and were back in the fight game after doing their time and providing a clean sample.

Zack: First off, Lauzon was not an 18 year old rookie. You’re thinking of his younger brother Dan, who was 4-0 when he fought Spencer Fisher. Joe Lauzon was 22 yrs and 13-3 when he fought Pulver. Eddie Sanchez was 6-0 when he faced CroCop.

And the difference between them facing Fisher, Pulver and CroCop is quite simple: they fought MMA-fights, whereas Butterbean simply didn’t, at least not if we’re the NSAC who rules everything from their perspective of the unified rules.

Just take a look at Butterbean’s record and you’ll see exactly why they didn’t want him to fight Hunt. At the time of “The Real Deal” he had fought 4 guys who had never won a single fight, four that were several weight-classes below him and a fight with a former UFC-fighter (who was also a weight class below) under “special rules”. Which more or less leaves him with not one fight that somehow fits within the NSAC regulations of fighting in your own weight class and/or fighting under unified rules. Whereas Hunt fought four times in his own weightclass by that time, and faced a former KOTC champion, a KOP champion, a former UFC and KOP champion, as well as the No. 2 heavyweight in the world and Pride OWGP winner, which i would call a slight difference in fight records. So had Butterbean fought at least a few “real” MMA fights and credible opponents the fight would surely have happened, well, if Hunt had gone to BK a few times, since he’d had to move up to Superheavyweight.

But since all that didn’t happen they tried to make it a boxing match. Well, Pride did, but got turned down by the NSAC. And the reason for that is simple as well: they don’t allow mixed cards in Nevada. So it was more or less tough luck on Pride’s side, and not the ill will of the NSAC.

Well they did turn down a Butterbean/Mark Hunt fight because it was a “mismatch”…yet they let Jens Pulver, a former UFC champ fight an 18 y/o rookie (who he ironically ended up losing to.) They also let Cro Cop fight Eddie Sanchez. I’d really like to see a Mark Hunt vs Sergei fight, but I’m not sure if they can do open weight over 205lb or if that fight cant get sanctioned cuz Hunt is a SHW while Sergei is a HW. Yvel vs Sergei was a fight I was looking forward to cuz its always fun to watch Yvel get beat down.

The big question is where is the outcry about this, the NSAC bias towards the UFC and against smaller promotions is so blatant there’s no denying it. I haven’t heard this mentioned elsewhere except for this little blurb on MMA Weekly.

It’s buried deep in the MMA Weekly story about the NSAC suspensions.