http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=8107&zoneid=2
WTF - a witch doctor ritual? that's the explanation?
Very weird.
But I did notice Georges do the same thing to himself on the way to the cage, and in the cage before the fight. Tapped his chest and his back right below his neck with his fingers. I thought it looked funny.
uh oh, bj nuthuggers have nothing to grasp to now. bj got beat by the better fighter and his coaches know this
"Witch Doctor Ritual"... AHAHAHAAAAAHAHAHAAHAAAAHAHAHAHAAAAA
Greg J should have stayed quiet..
ttt
GSP is using magical spells from his witch doctor! So THAT'S why the Jackson guys are so good.
Shit, no wonder GSP looks unbeatable. He's full of voodoo...
The talk about BJ's shoulders post fight certainly tells us that this crazy shit is probably true! :)
Justin
So this is a voodoo dude that works with Hughes... I vaguely remember him on Series 6....
GJ Put's Friend on the SPOT avoids blame...
GJ Put's Nurse on the SPOT avoids blame...
WOW - he is already distancing himself away from Nurse...
So NSAC dismissed BJ's formal complaint? - it was mentioned in the article that NO formal complaint has been made...
figure four - So this is a voodoo dude that works with Hughes... I vaguely remember him on Series 6....
GJ Put's Friend on the SPOT avoids blame...
GJ Put's Nurse on the SPOT avoids blame...
WOW - he is already distancing himself away from Nurse...
So NSAC dismissed BJ's formal complaint? - it was mentioned in the article that NO formal complaint has been made...
I don't think the complaint can be filed until Monday.
XFC - The talk about BJ's shoulders post fight certainly tells us that this crazy shit is probably true! :)
Justin
lol +1
gsp is a level 70 warlock with grease lightning spellz
Voodoo vaseline?
“At that point, somebody in the audience thought we were greasing George down, and ran over and told the commission that we were greasing his body down. The commission came in and said ‘you can’t grease him down,’ which didn’t work. They said ‘you’re putting Vasoline on his back,’ and Phil’s like, ‘oh, there might be a little on my fingers, but it wasn’t intentional at all, and of course they wiped it right off and it was gone, so it wasn’t a factor in the fight at all.”
Indeed, much of the fight played out with St. Pierre on top of Penn, doling out a vicious ground and pound attack. Jackson said after a little explaining, the commission realized what was going on.
“We told our side of the story, we said didn’t mean to put any grease anywhere,” he said. “If we were trying to grease the back we’d be greasing up and down, we would make it count. We wouldn’t do a little tiny spot in the back. The whole thing doesn’t make any sense, so they were fine with it once we gave our explanation. It wasn’t like we were taking gobs of Vasoline and slathering on his back. They didn’t understand the drill that the witch doctor was having us do, and so it looked that way. It didn’t effect the fight at all.”
At this point, no formal complaint has been filed with the NSAC. The popular trainer chalks the whole incident up to fan paranoia.
“The whole greasing thing is pretty ridiculous,” he said. “You can’t grease somebody up. You just couldn’t do it. They check your body before you get into the cage, there’s an inspector right there. In order for us to grease him up, it would be insane. There are cameras everywhere. We don’t cheat. We don’t need to cheat to win.”
Greg Jackson interview - "So Phil Nurse put all the Vasoline on his face, so his hands might have had a miniscule amount left over from that, when he went around the side and rubbed a little point on his back, and tapped on his chest."
Complete bullshit! All anyone has to do is view the footage to see he did much more then the rubbing a little point on his back and tapped his chest, all after dipping into the Vaseline clump.
Jackson was also heard warning Nurse that the inspector was coming. Chuck Lidell was going ballistic and he's been around long enough to know greasing when he sees it.
The inspector was heard yelling about the greasing hardly being ok with it. And then Oh they wiped it off, he knows damn well you can't wipe it off.
This was pure CYA mode.
Unless its 1995 and you're a kickboxer fighting a LUTA LIVRE dude in the IVC, it would seem like a risky thing that could easily backfire.
lol @ "Vaseline clump"
cweatapeach - lol @ "Vaseline clump"
watch the gif's