Choi submitted those new medical certificates to CSAC and requested a new examination again but was refused. What he heard from Mr.Garcia was “there’s no way for us to give you the right to fight here now.”. He also said even if there had been a mistake that would be corrected after K-1 show is over.(reportedly June 23th)

In the hospital, which CSAC appointed as a official one, there was no MRI machine that could fit Choi’s head because it is very big. But CSAC made choi take it anyway and Choi failed at the medical test even if the film was not very clear one.

Although Choi is just a green guy in MMA, he’s been fighting in K-1 for more that 2 years. And even before, he competed in Korean traditional style wrestling competition(called Ci-rum) for so many years. This Ci-rum organization is very official and national one in Korea. If Chio had that kind of serious problem, he couldn’t have competed in there for that many years.

“The real problem is there was no reason for Garcia to suspend him for having a tumor on his pituitary gland. That’s how people get that freaking big unless they are a hereditary giant and there aren’t many of those. I’m guessing Nicolay Valuev wouldn’t be able to fight in Cali either. Garcia seems to think his job is more meaningful than it really is”

Yeah, the tumor is also the reason they die at a relatively young age.

What I am saying though is that jurisidiction, which is the matter at hand, does not extend beyond one’s own limits, i.e. the state in which the matter was handled.

Of course no other state or country has to listen to the medical suspension of the CSAC. The thing is, though, that it is in the best interest of preventing serious injury or death, most (somewhat) regulated states and countries will tend to at the very least review the decision of the other commissions. If they disagree with the assessment, they can let the guy fight, but if they agree, they can keep it going. At the very least, they should consider the suspensions placed in other states.

I honestly don’t see a problem with a commissioner saying “I don’t think fighter X should be fighting anymore because of reason Y.” Afterall, do you want to see another Douglas Dedge situation where a guy who was virtually banned from fighting in the U.S. due to a pre-existing medical condition (in his case, blackouts) went to a country where it was a ‘Wild West’ situation and ended up dying from a relatively weak series of strikes because of the condition? I would rather see more unified medical suspensions/reviews globally than to let guys go to a lawless place in defiency of any reasonable medical judgment, get killed in the ring or cage and then the sport gets blamed for their own idiocy.

What the heck is wrong with Armando Garcia? Does he think that the CSAC rules the entire freaking world? Someone seems to have a complex.

The NSAC and other commissions have previously suspended indefinitely/revoked fighter licenses for people that fought while under medical suspension (I think ‘Cabbage’ was suspended or revoked in NSAC as he fought shortly after his medical suspension elsewhere). Afterall, what’s the point of being medically suspended by a commission if the suspension is not effective anywhere else? We don’t need more fighters with health issues (Tommy Morrison, Joe Mesi, etc.) risking their lives and/or the lives of others because they go to a ‘Wild West’ state, commission-wise. If anything, there’s needs to be more accountable on this aspect, I think.