Brian Stann responds to Shlemenko's accusations that UFC fighters are faking injuries
Posted on August 17, 2012, 01:55 PM by Mike DrahotaBrian Stann recently took to Twitter to repspond to the allegations made by Bellator Middleweight Alexander Shlemenko that UFC fighters are faking injuries when they do not like the fights they've been given. Stann appeared to be annoyed by the comment, centering around his originally scheduled fight against Hector Lombard:
Shouldnt even dignify todays comment w/ a response, but I would never fake an injury. I agreed to fight Hector b4 he was even signed
— Brian Stann (@BrianStann) August 15, 2012
Now today, Schlemenko himself responded to Stann, saying that he had used Stann as a sort of example where he knew how long it would take his injury to heal:
I knew how long it takes to recover shoulder injury, that's why I used@brianstann as an example. If he recovers so fast - respect to him!
— Shlemenko Alexander (@StormShlemenko) August 17, 2012
However, Stann appeared to have taken offense to this, responding:
@stormshlemenko no you dont know how long because anyone can google a grade 2 seperation and see it is 6-8 weeks, worry about yourself
— Brian Stann (@BrianStann) August 17, 2012
Brian Stann has always been an upstanding fighter, inside and out of the cage. Is there any weight to Shlemenko's comments? Or is it just an attempt by a non-UFC fighter to drum up controversy and attention? Stann will face Michael Bisping at UFC 152, we will find out just how healed up he is then.
Further Reading: Alexander Shlemenko - UFC fighters are using injuries to avoid bad matchups
Comments
@Schlemenko....bitter much cuz you aint in the UFC ? Worry about your career, and quit being a sour grape.
yea all these guys from Bellator are always talking about UFC fighters, I think it's envy for the most part. you don't hear UFC fighters calling out Bellator fighters. that would be like someone playing Baseball for the Scranton WilkesBarre Yankees and calling out Derek Jeter and A-rod, you're in the same sport different league. just like Lombard found out. Bellator has some great talent, I'm not even saying Lombard isn't a great talent, but maybe since he steamrolled people over there he really thought it would be the same level of competition? whatever it is @Justsayin, everyone in Bellator has a padded record really. If you're in Bellator and you're a UFC level fighter there is only 3 or 4 REAL prospects per weight class over there minus the guys who already had their shot at UFC, so if your Bellator record is 10-2 and you didn't fight those same few people over and over most of your wins are against lesser opponents. not to mention Stann losing doesn't make him a gatekeeper. he's still got a decent career left and he'll get better, he's a soldier, he's disciplined, he's full of heart, and he will try to be the best. dunno if I think he'll ever be the best but I don't see him ducking fights based on being scared of a gatekeeper roll which would still see him in some big fights vs new up and comers making probably quadruple a year what you make
Brain u pussy u did fake it u could of fought but Greg saw how scared and worried you were and told u to pull out.. your a bully and you've never faced anyone even close to your level.. the UFC hand picked glass jaws for u so they could make an American hero out of u but the forgot one thing this isn't Hollywood this is MMA it doesn't get really
Hahahahahahahahaha.
He Fought for his country, put his life on the line for his country. That is more than you will ever do with your life you Wanker. If it was not for men like him cowards like you cud get drafted into the war
He was nothing more than a mercenary for corrupt politicians. No honour in that I am afraid.
who cares? he was a hired thug! IDIOT
Wihitemare 1,000,000 iraqis died in the war you brainwashed bitch the whole war was for the oil but again like I said you brainwashed bitch you watch your american news and you believe it give this country a few years and then you'll realize what the jews are u p to and that you been getting f***** in your ass and like to buy your own government but you continue to say that he defended his country you don't go halfway across the world to defend your country there was absolutely no threat or proof of the b******* your government fed you I don't hate him for going to the war it was a great thing and he did it with good intentions but when you see what really goes on the least you could do is come here and tell the people the truth
whitemare...he faught for a few rich people and made them richer. people who afterwards didn't give a fu*k about him and every other soldier involved. not going to war isn't cowardly. its smart. EVERY ONE has a choice. if you go to war you'll have blood on your hands. the iraq war was nothing but a huge crime. you have to be quite an idiot not to see this.
"you have to be quite an idiot to not see this" sharp my own post.
what your f**kin problem?
You, and people like you who spread garbage about things they know nothing about.
Your the only one that knows nothing about what's going on in thus world
Yea, because you do.
and like whitemare said, if he didnt do it, then people like you who would cry themself to sleep at night while shitting and pissing themselves at the same time, would get drafted into wars. your country has these same type of "mercenaries". get a clue you ****ing pessimistic retard.
yet another brainwashed bitch
Probably no "honour" in that as it isn't even a word.
Keep conspiracy theories you know nothing about off the wall.
Honour is the proper spelling in britain . Canada uses both british and american versions
Honor is an american version of the word just like colour , flavour etc.
Regardless of grammar I agree Evan that those types of discussions don't belong here.
The politics of a conflict has no bearing on the honor of the soldiers serving their country azzkika.
Thank you Sambo. Learn something new everyday.
What's a conspiracy? Do you see honor in following an order to bomb women and children in a country full of poor people? You call that courage? Do you deny it was for other interests such as oil that the war was waged in the first place. THE ONLY CONSPIRACY IS THE CONSPIRACY OF THE STUPID.
No I say conspiracy because everything you just posted is incoherent babble.
Do you know what Stann did in his time in Iraq? He held a bridge a strategic point for for 6 days under assault from a heavier force while calling in strikes of both air and artillery. He brought home every single person under his command as a LT. That's heroic. Nothing close to bombing women and children.
whats his buisness on a bridge in a place on the other side of the world? stann like every other american soldier involved in this war served a gouverment that is responsable for hundreds of thousands of killings for oil. they had absolutely NO fu**ing buisness there. and every soldier involved in this is responsable because they DID have a choice.
That's what he signed up to do, and those are his orders. Gouverment isn't a word, and you again are taking conspiracy theories then treating them as fact.
If the US got all this oil from the Iraqi war, we probably wouldn't be paying an average of 3.50 per gallon for it right now.
Wow odeh that was amazing guts in posting that,can't believe it didn't get weaked by clueless clowns. My most sincere respect for you and i understand your frustration.
Yea we all know that there's just no way that people in power actually want to keep it, and there's just no way that a capitalist country is interested in capital....that's just crazy.
ok then...whats your theory? to me the official version of the gouvernment (I'm not a native english-speaker...smartass) is most ridiculous conspiracy theory.
oh...so he signed to switch off his brain? I guess that is what you have to do...denial of responsability. how else would you be able to live with the aftermath.
Yea, the official version is so much worse than "versions" people float on lint for page views. Or its also gotta be less relevant than uncertified accounts of boots on the ground.
Germany (and other countries with a 100th the amount of automobiles) are going to pay a lot less for gas. It's been that was for the past 50 years.
oh are they? funny because here the price for gas has been and is still rising every week. wtf ever. if you sign for going to war (signing away your choice to think for yourself) you're not a hero. you're an idiot. my opinion. if noone went to war there would be no war. as simple as that.
oh btw...do you know how much we europeans pay for gas??? in germany its about 6,70 € (EUROS!)
oh...thats a gallon.
Shouldnt even dignify [Stann's] comment w/ a response, but [he totally faked that] injury. [He] agreed to fight Hector b4 he [knew he'd be] signed, [and then he went into full-on dodgeball mode].
I'd probably take the Bisping fight over the "Poison Dwarf" fight any day too (especially if I'm trying to strike), but then again, I'm not the "American Hero". SMH.
*fixed
*illogical
Funny thing is that Shlemenko put as an example a man that is war hero, after driving past bombs and avoiding bullets, the octagon becomes a pretty peacefull place.
Funny thing is, that has nothing to do with the fight game.
Avoiding bombs (which is what you claim an invading army does) has nothing to do with how you perform in the octagon. And hopefully we can agree that if Stann tries to flatfootedly box Shango, he's getting knocked out.
Stann is at a point in his career where a loss could mean relegation to gate-keeper, which is why he's fighting the guy with no KO power.
Padded record ftw.
blah blah, war is a lie and for whores to take part in. it don't mean shit.
Funny thing is that my post has nothing to do with how he performs in the octagon, just sayin that he is probably not scared to fight someone after what he has experinced in the army....and I don't agree that Shango would KO him, how do you know that?
Agree with the loss situation and don't give a shit about the invading army or whatever you are tryin' to say, because I live on the Balkan penisula in Europe.
You talk up Lombard, then claim Bisping has a padded record...
You should probably change your post name from "just sayiin..." to "just stupid..."
Shango couldnt even KO Tim Boetsch, who stood up with him the entire fight... Your precious dwarf is over rated. Time for all of you fair weather fans to jump on another bandwagon,
Well… Tim basically backpedalled the entire fight, whereas Stann is another flat-footed boxer like Shango.
And Shango is the one with the power… just pointing that out.
And I'm not a fair weather fan. I'm disappointed in his last performance but I do believe he's going to have a have great impact in the MW division. Maybe he'll never be the champ, but goddamn he's gonna get a shot at it!
... and so does Stann. Yea great impact, how'd that first match go against quality competition?
You're not a fair weather fan. Just an ignorant one.
Shlemenko trolling cause he mad he's either fighting in Bellator tourneys or in the super prestigious SFL
so do u guys think that if Brain stann didnt go to iraq we would all be dead? ps thanks your for serving brain stann To bad the oil price never went down?? i would have sucked if you died there and we didnt get cheaper oil o like my friend
Why do fighters insist on saying stupid things ?