Brian Stann responds to Shlemenko’s accusations that UFC fighters are faking injuries

Brian 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:

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:

However, Stann appeared to have taken offense to this, responding:

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.

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Further Reading: Alexander Shlemenko – UFC fighters are using injuries to avoid bad matchups