Matt Hughes talks more about St. Pierre greasing
Just when you thought you were sick of hearing about Georges St. Pierre's greasing allegations during UFC 94: St. Pierre vs Penn 2, Matt Hughes has brought up the topic on his blog again. In response to the reaction he's received about his first post on the subject, he writes:
I usually don't do this, but I will this time. When I talk about a topic one week, it usually doesn't get brought up again. I think a lot of people need to go back and reread last week's blog, including GSP. At no point did I accuse Georges of putting grease on himself. All I said was that he felt slick. I've wrestled over a thousand matches, fought 50 opponents, all I've ever done in life is wrestle and compete with other people. With all that experience, do you think I wouldn't be able to tell the difference between sweat and something else? Last week when I got to Florida, I was in the elevator with Robbie, I said "Robbie did you hear about GSP?" He said, "No, I don't know what you're talking about." I then said that BJ accused him of being slippery, Robbie looked right up at me and said, "That's what you said after Anaheim." Also, I've had several people close to me around my town who have come up to me and said the same thing. I've nothing against GSP, I even think he's somewhat a likable guy. Some people are trying to say that I'm making this personal and that's just not true at all. The reason I didn't bring this up before was because I didn't know there was anything to him being slick. With all the other guys coming out and saying the same thing, I just wanted to be true to myself, and to everybody else, and say that there could be some validity there.
So basically Matt Hughes thinks Georges St. Pierre is a cheater. Because you might "accidentally" grease once, but not multiple times against multiple opponents. And, whoa, hey, Matt, saying St. Pierre is "somewhat a likeable guy"? Geez, get a room. I've never heard such doting praise thrown on another man like that before. What's next? Maybe he's probably not as bad as Hitler? We get it, Matt. You're in love with the guy.
Georges St. Pierre denies cheating
Georges St. Pierre was on the Beatdown radio show yesterday and responded to the greasing allegations. Sherdog reports:
"Listen, I never cheated in my life," an animated St. Pierre told Sherdog Radio Network's "Beatdown" show on Wednesday. "Let me tell you something, I never said something bad to B.J. Penn. I never answered back to him with what he said. I've always been respectful. Even after the fight I went and told him, 'Hey, keep your head up. You can be proud. You're a tough guy. You stayed in the ring for a long time.' But now that he says something like that it bothers me a lot. He already said I was taking steroids, that I was a quitter, that he was blaming me for seeing a sports psychologist and now he says that I cheat because I use Vaseline."The 27-year-old French Canadian, who narrowly bested Penn via split decision in their first meeting at UFC 58 in March 2006, said Penn's contempt is misplaced.
"It's disrespectful, but B.J. is a winner," St. Pierre said. "I understand a winner's mentality. A winner's mentality always tries to understand the reason why he lost. In B.J.'s case, he doesn't do it in a good way. I understand that he tries to understand why he lost, but what he should've done instead of looking at things he doesn't control he should've looked at himself in the mirror and asked himself what he should've done better to be more well-prepared for that fight to be able to beat Georges St. Pierre instead of looking at me and try to find excuses... B.J. right now is doing it all wrong and he's not going to become a better fighter if he keeps acting like this."
It's a bit presumptuous for St. Pierre to be claiming he did nothing wrong and he's innocent in all this, but he does bring up some good points about BJ Penn. Always making up excuses doesn't make you a better fighter. It does, however, keep you from having to wash the dishes. Honest, honey, the doctor said if I do the dishes I'll die. You can't argue with science!
Matt Hughes speaks out on GSP greasing
Matt Hughes has made a post on his official blog regarding UFC 94 and mentions that when he fought Georges St. Pierre, "he felt greasy." From his blog:
I thought BJ would have put on a better performance. BJ Penn is coming from a lighter weight class, but he took the fight at 170. That's the bottom line. I knew it was going to come down to who had the better cardio and even at the end of the first round BJ looked tired. Now, on to what everybody is talking about, the greasing. I'm not the only one who has said that GSP felt greasy during a fight. I know Matt Serra has mentioned it and, even in their first fight, I think BJ said something. I'm not saying GSP did something wrong and I'm not saying that it would have changed any outcomes of any fights; but what I am saying is, for my last two fights against Georges, he felt greasy.
Not exactly conclusive, but if you're to believe what everybody's saying, that's five fighters who have said Georges St. Pierre is greasing (Josh Koscheck, Matt Serra, Jason Miller, BJ Penn, and Matt Hughes). Although keep in mind that's also five fighters that St. Pierre has beaten up. Either there's some validity to what they're saying or St. Pierre just really makes people want to come up with excuses.