Comments on: Report: Armando Garcia resigns from California SAC

By: Ivan Trembow

Ivan Trembow — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 08:26:34 +0000

How do we know that he didn’t take the fight seriously? He came in heavier than he usually is, but that doesn’t necessarily mean that he wasn’t taking the fight seriously. It could have just have easily been that a training injury caused him to be able to train less, and that caused him to put on some weight. That happens all the time to fighters, and in the weight classes that require cutting, it can make for some very hard weight cutting (ie, Thiago Alves with his injured ankle before the Matt Hughes fight). In heavyweight fights, you don’t have to cut weight at all unless you’re Brock Lesnar, but a training injury could still cause you to come in heavier than usual. Again, I’m not saying that he DID have a training injury, I’m just saying that it has to be considered just as likely or more likely than simply not taking the fight seriously.

By: 45 Huddle

45 Huddle — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 07:17:57 +0000

I wonder how much it has to do with him coming in 20 lbs over weight and obviously not taking the fight seriously.

All I know is that if I showed such a lack of effort at my job, I would have likely been fired. He should have been happy that they offered him a pay decrease.

I’m all for the UFC getting the best fighters. And I still think them not signing Matt Lindland is garbage. But in this case, with Werdum coming in so out of shape, it’s a slap in the face to the fans who purchase the PPV and buy tickets to see the event. Can’t exactly feel bad for the guy.

By: Ivan Trembow

Ivan Trembow — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 06:05:38 +0000

Wow. “You lost a fight, now take a pay cut or we’re releasing you.” Tough break for Fabricio Werdum. He had just signed a new contract after beating Brandon Vera and before losing to Junior dos Santos, and it was thrown out the window when he lost.

By: Zack

Zack — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 05:34:54 +0000

“Isn’t this the same mental midget that suspended or fined Josh Thompson for wearing a “Frank Shamrock is a bitch” t-shirt??”

Which wasn’t even as bad as him fining or suspending someone for a cartwheel guard pass.

By: The Gaijin

The Gaijin — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:49:07 +0000

Isn’t this the same mental midget that suspended or fined Josh Thompson for wearing a “Frank Shamrock is a bitch” t-shirt??

By: jdavis

jdavis — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 20:13:38 +0000

It seems that in the three years that Garcia was running CSAC there were tons of odd decisions and a number of things they just plain botched. There are going to always be certain decisions that will be controversial from any athletic commission but CSAC excelled at controversy. Even if you drop half of the controversies as people just grouching on them you still have a commission with a lot of screwy things going on and Garcia was in the middle of all of it.

By: Fightlinker

Fightlinker — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:44:12 +0000

Here’s one:

http://www.fightnightnews.com/garcia.html

And regarding false positives, Bigfoot took ADT which caused a positive test for boldenone. ADT is not boldenone, nor is it a banned substance. As for Baroni, read the link provided in the original post … if you have more info on that situation I’d love to hear more.

I agree with your statement that banned substances in supplements does not mean a positive testing is a false positive testing. But in Bigfoot’s case, his positive was caused by a non-banned substance. If the CSAC had made a ruling on the issue i’d be okay with it but they ignored the fact so they wouldn’t have to make a decision. Pathetic.

Again regarding Baroni’s case, I was shocked to find myself siding with him based on what I learned during his case. But how can one explain multiple tests coming clean and even retests of the csac samples coming through clean? If Ken Pavia is lying about the situation, then that changes things. But no one has come forward to challenge his statements.

By: Ivan Trembow

Ivan Trembow — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:19:47 +0000

Also, what was the web site that had the multi-part investigative series on how Garcia operated? I know there was one on MaxBoxing, but there was another one that I can’t remember.

By: Ivan Trembow

Ivan Trembow — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 19:16:25 +0000

The only thing unusual about the Baroni and Sherk suspensions were that they were reduced in half, despite the ridiculous defenses offered by their lawyers. Taking a steroid unknowingly because it was in a supplement that you took, even if that is really all that happened, does NOT mean that it was a false positive and does NOT mean that you don’t deserve the full suspension.

By: mr. Roadblock

mr. Roadblock — Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:38:30 +0000

45:

Not only are Loretta’s facts off but that is a horrendous run-on sentence.