
“To be honest, even an interim title doesn’t make me too happy. This belt hasn’t been taken away from me, it’s still my belt. If I get cleared from my hearing to fight, I’m eligible to fight right now, so I don’t think that the idea of an interim title … it doesn’t make me too happy. I’ll just have to fight whoever wins that fight. If somebody wants to wrap that belt around their waist and call themselves champion, I think it should be me. Otherwise, it’s just a little fake belt.”
– UFC Lightweight Champion Sean Sherk comments via MMAWeekly.com on the decision of the UFC to book a fight for the interim 155-pound title between BJ Penn and Joe Stevenson at UFC 80: “Rapid Fire” on January 18. “The Muscle Shark” has been embroiled in a dispute regarding steroid use with the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) since July.
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Easy there Seany boy, control your artificial testosterone.
okay,dont worry, after BJ penn beat joe stevenson, then BJ will beat you too, so there would be no fake interim belt anymore,
I hate the interim belt idea. If he’s cleared, there’s no reason for an interim belt. If he’s not, there’s no reason he should have the real belt.
[quote comment=”205910″]I hate the interim belt idea. If he’s cleared, there’s no reason for an interim belt. If he’s not, there’s no reason he should have the real belt.[/quote]
agreed, this is premature, if they waited this long why can’t they wait another freaking 2 weeks? lame.
Well Sherk is correct. And either way you can call this a number 1 contender match. If Sherk gets cleared he’s gonna run through either of those contenders
First off, Sherk needs to calm his roid ass down. I was at UFC 73 and watched him fight Franca, and I just wanna say he is the most boring fighter, period. His wet blanket approach to winning fights and trying to keep the belt are weak sh*t and so is he if he’s trying to tell anyone that he didnt roid up. It doesnt matter anyway, because once he has to fight penn for the undisputed title, his reign as the roid champion will be over.
yea hes deff right and would beat either one of them steriods or not. but if bj wins he will fight sherk right away and wouldnt call himself the champ util he beats him. cause hes a G
The only reason that they are doing this is so to get more viewers. They must think that Interim Belt sounds better then number one contender match.
Either way still a very good fight!!
If he’s cleared he can fight to get the belt back from the winner of BJ and Joe Daddy. Otherwise STFU and stay away. He’s held the whole division hostage first with his litany of injuries that have allowed him to defend the “real” belt twice in two years and now with his ‘roids. If he wasn’t friends with Dana he would already have been stripped, either for the positive test or for his inability to defend the belt on anything close to a regular basis. Even WWE strips champions if they are injured and can’t get in the ring. He is the last person who should be complaining about any of this, because it is entirely his doing.
A memo to Sean Sherk
Please shut up. You have defended that belt once in the last year and a half. Does anyone even remember you last fight before Florian? No. Your fights are boring, perhaps your biggest talent is eating knees and then laying on people. The UFC isn’t gonna wait for you that long. Plus you aren’t even a big draw. You can’t even headline your own event and you are the champ!
thats a real big IF sherky!!
but the idea of an interim belt is stupid
Well Sean if your levels weren’t all jazz’d up on that mountain dew this wouldnt be a problem now would it?
Either way BJ will be the next champ
[quote comment=”205909″]okay,dont worry, after BJ penn beat joe stevenson, then BJ will beat you too, so there would be no fake interim belt anymore,[/quote]
HAHA, ya, no kidding. He won’t hold that one for long regardless.
well…if you dont get cleared sean.. then you are a “Fake little champion”
i think sherk will beat penn in pretty much the same fashion he beat hermes. he will control him on the ground as he proved against hermes he has great submission defense and if he does get caught in one he will more than likely muscle his way out of it.
it’s just a little fake belt.”
I think u are fake sean sherk, grow some balls and fight bj penn without steroids, that would be cool.
dana and the UFC are taking advantage of the situation. regardless of the outcome, he’s going to be able to have sherk fight bj or joe daddy. if bj beats joe daddy… which i am assuming he does… i assume that sherk vs penn would be a moneymaker. just my thought
[quote comment=”205915″]Well Sherk is correct. And either way you can call this a number 1 contender match. If Sherk gets cleared he’s gonna run through either of those contenders[/quote]
LOL @ Sherk running through BJ. Too bad Matt Hughes and GSP couldn’t “run through” BJ. You know, 2 guys who absolutely dominated Sherk?
[quote comment=”205975″][quote comment=”205915″]Well Sherk is correct. And either way you can call this a number 1 contender match. If Sherk gets cleared he’s gonna run through either of those contenders[/quote]
LOL @ Sherk running through BJ. Too bad Matt Hughes and GSP couldn’t “run through” BJ. You know, 2 guys who absolutely dominated Sherk?[/quote]
QFT
[quote comment=”205953″]i think sherk will beat penn in pretty much the same fashion he beat hermes. he will control him on the ground as he proved against hermes he has great submission defense and if he does get caught in one he will more than likely muscle his way out of it.[/quote]
Huh? You’re equating BJ with Hermes just because they are BJJ guys? Hermes is not on BJ’s level. And how exactly will Sherk muscle his way out of a sub if he gets caught? Oh right, just like a bigger, stronger Matt Hughes muscled his way out a rear naked choke from BJ. All the ‘roid rage in the world won’t save Sherk.
[quote comment=”205932″]A memo to Sean Sherk
Please shut up. You have defended that belt once in the last year and a half. Does anyone even remember you last fight before Florian? No. Your fights are boring, perhaps your biggest talent is eating knees and then laying on people. The UFC isn’t gonna wait for you that long. Plus you aren’t even a big draw. You can’t even headline your own event and you are the champ![/quote]
LOL. Well put!
[quote comment=”205907″]Easy there Seany boy, control your artificial testosterone.[/quote]
LOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL
[quote comment=”205948″]well…if you dont get cleared sean.. then you are a “Fake little champion”[/quote]
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
[quote comment=”205923″]The only reason that they are doing this is so to get more viewers. They must think that Interim Belt sounds better then number one contender match.[/quote]
I think the interim title is a great idea. It’s just a glorified #1 contender match but it gets to be 5 rounds so we the fans benefit.
Is that Roid Rage I am sensing Sean.
Sherk can try to lay on BJ all he wants but BJ’s jiu-jitsu is a tad bit better than Franca’s. I’m also sure that BJ isn’t happy about this interim belt idea seeing as how he was stripped of his “real” belt while he was having contract problems. Either way BJ will take the title and much like Anderson Silva, dominate this weight class for a long time. this is all assuming that Sherk doesn’t hurt himself walking into the hearing and have to be out 6-9 months with an injury.
He doesnt even deserve to have an opinion in the matter if you ask me. Whether or not he “knowingly” took roids is irrelevant. His test was positive, and he has the audacity to say that it would be a fake belt. He is a fake champion, a champion doesn’t take steroids. Even if it was all his supplements combined that made the level rise, he should have done research to make sure something like that didn’t happen. The fact is Dana is making business personal by not stripping the belt, and using his excuse that the CSAC is taking too long. Would he rather they make a decision without all of the information and just make an assumption on the matter. BJ can and will whoop his ass. Mark my words. Hey Mania, who do you think would win that fight?
[quote comment=”206033″]Even if it was all his supplements combined that made the level rise, he should have done research to make sure something like that didn’t happen. [/quote]
well put
[quote comment=”206026″]
I think the interim title is a great idea. It’s just a glorified #1 contender match but it gets to be 5 rounds so we the fans benefit.[/quote]
Good point. But I don’t think it will get anywhere near 5 rounds. If it does, I can only think that’s good for Joe and bad for BJ.
p.s. Grow some balls Sherk.
fake belt? kinda like the fake one you gainded from juicing roids? or maybe its more like some of the extra fake talent that the roids gave you? no use arguing semantics you just a douche, who shoulda gave up the belt a long time ago. you say you havent lost the belt.., well when was the last time you defended the damn thing.
mma rules, lets keep it that way by keeping the bastards who arent willing to give up a belt (even if they know they dont deserve it, plus if your that good just go win the damn thing back, try doing it natural this time though)
eat it sherk, your a vagina.
-Greg
[quote comment=”206004″][quote comment=”205932″]A memo to Sean Sherk
Please shut up. You have defended that belt once in the last year and a half. Does anyone even remember you last fight before Florian? No. Your fights are boring, perhaps your biggest talent is eating knees and then laying on people. The UFC isn’t gonna wait for you that long. Plus you aren’t even a big draw. You can’t even headline your own event and you are the champ![/quote]
LOL. Well put![/quote]
this memo was sent to me by mistake, i just REALLY wanna make sure that sherk gets it.
[quote comment=”205915″]Well Sherk is correct. And either way you can call this a number 1 contender match. If Sherk gets cleared he’s gonna run through either of those contenders[/quote]
I disagree I think BJ would beat sherk even with the juice.
It doesn’t make me happy the idea that sherk can’t cycle off right..if he likes them roids..Im not happy with the lw division being held up this long..I’m not happy if he is found guilty..will most likely get a reduced sentence and won’t be stripped of the title..Im not too happy with dana’s tool.
Sherk should just shut up until he is cleared, if that ever happens.
BJ never lost his belt to anybody either so I guess that allows BJ to cry about his belt being the real one too?
Either way, BJ will beat both fighters in front of him. He is too skilled.
[quote comment=”205915″]Well Sherk is correct. And either way you can call this a number 1 contender match. If Sherk gets cleared he’s gonna run through either of those contenders[/quote]
You have got to be crazy if you think his lay and pray style of MMA is going to work with BJ Penn. Pen has fought succesfully in every weight class under 185, so handling Sherk’s abnormal, geneticly enhanced, physique will not be an issue. Sherk is nowhere near the caliber fighter that Hughes or GSP are. GSP, Hughes, and Penn can actually finish fights, not just lay on top of their opponents until the final bell rings. Sherk will get caught in a submission trying to lay and pray with BJ. That is assuming he can take him down. He beat hughes the first time, would have prob. beat hughes the second time if he had not sperated rib in the 3rd round, he was winning the first 2. Also he took the second fight with hughes on 2 or 3 weeks notice(If my memory serves me correct). So to say Sherk is going through run through Penn is insane, hell it is MMA everyone gets lucky here and there, but Sherks days of eeking out decisions by laying on top of them, will finally be over. He will have to add so much more to his game before he can beat Penn. Sherk is strictly a wrestler, BJ has inceredible stand up, incredible take down defense, and probably is in the top 3-5 BJJ in the game right now.
[quote comment=”205995″][quote comment=”205953″]i think sherk will beat penn in pretty much the same fashion he beat hermes. he will control him on the ground as he proved against hermes he has great submission defense and if he does get caught in one he will more than likely muscle his way out of it.[/quote]
Huh? You’re equating BJ with Hermes just because they are BJJ guys? Hermes is not on BJ’s level. And how exactly will Sherk muscle his way out of a sub if he gets caught? Oh right, just like a bigger, stronger Matt Hughes muscled his way out a rear naked choke from BJ. All the ‘roid rage in the world won’t save Sherk.[/quote]
Well Stated! I can not figure out how people are equating Sherk to Hughes and GSP. He is nowhere near the level of anything.
The new date for the Sherk trial has been pushed till December 4th. This guy keeps getting lucky.
Sherdog is reporting that the CSAC is postponing the hearing further, to December 4th. Also it states that the package that was given by Jacobs before the hearing but never distributed to the board member contains a request to allow a lie detector test. Also it shows evidence that Sherk’s supplements were contaminated with an anabolic agent. Interesting.
SHERK NEEDDS TO QUIT HIS BITCHIN!!! Its his own damn fault all of this is going on. Some may say well what if hes not guilty..how is that his fault??? He shouldnt have taken any damn thing that could even ppossibly show up as a steroid so its his own damn fault. He needs to shut up and quit being a BABY!!!
[quote comment=”206216″]Sherdog is reporting that the CSAC is postponing the hearing further, to December 4th. Also it states that the package that was given by Jacobs before the hearing but never distributed to the board member contains a request to allow a lie detector test. Also it shows evidence that Sherk’s supplements were contaminated with an anabolic agent. Interesting.[/quote]
So does that mean Sherks roids were tainted by someone else? Is that the argument they are taking? That is nonsense. that is the whole I just took what the doctor gave me I did not know what it was, I just trusted my doctor argument.
Sherk is the fake. Winning by cheating is fake!
He is so juiced up he doesn’t see the irony in his statement.
He is the perfect example of how drugs suck everything that is interesting out of MMA. He can overpower the guys in his weight class but doesn’t have the technique and skills to finish, so his fights suck.
who care what this matt hughes-mini-me (sherk) has to say. At som,e point he will have to fight BJ, and BJ will rip is shoulder off with an omoplata and this whole idiotic situation will be squashed.
How in the world is Stevenson gonna deal with the PRodigy? I think that it will be a pretty easy fight for BJ assuming his conditioning is where it should be. If the budda-bj-penn shows up he could get outworked by both sherk and joe daddy.
[quote comment=”206216″]Sherdog is reporting that the CSAC is postponing the hearing further, to December 4th. Also it states that the package that was given by Jacobs before the hearing but never distributed to the board member contains a request to allow a lie detector test. Also it shows evidence that Sherk’s supplements were contaminated with an anabolic agent. Interesting.[/quote]
Here’s the link:
http://www.sherdog.com/news/news.asp?n_id=9845
I don’t understand how it could take 5 months to get this cleared up. By the time they actually give a verdict, Sherk’s year suspension will be over.
Sherk can’t get any love on these boards. I actually appreciate Sherk’s fighting style. I’m always really impressed with his strength and conditioning. He didn’t slow down at all during the Franca fight. He’s always working. That’s why his fights don’t get stood up.
I really can’t see either BJ or Stevenson beating Sherk.
Would he prefer to be stripped of his title???? Don’t bite the hand that feeds you sherk, dana did all this so sherk could keep his belt.
[quote post=”3825″]I really can’t see either BJ or Stevenson beating Sherk. [/quote]
BJ has world class jiu jitsu and some of the heaviest hands at 155. Not to mention he fought and dominated hughes and GSP, two guys that owned sherk.
he dose not deserve the belt, the roids are getting the best of him. b.j well destroy him,florian would have beaten him if he did not just lay there. he is a boring fighter i don’t want to watch any of his fights.
[quote comment=”206253″]Sherk can’t get any love on these boards. I actually appreciate Sherk’s fighting style. I’m always really impressed with his strength and conditioning. He didn’t slow down at all during the Franca fight. He’s always working. That’s why his fights don’t get stood up.
I really can’t see either BJ or Stevenson beating Sherk.[/quote]
Your so wrong and because you actually think Sherk’s fighting style is good you should be banned from commenting.
Dear Sherk:
Why the Hell are you even opening your massive Yap? You think you should’nt be stripped of the belt, yet you yourself know full well what you did. You are a cheater, and cheaters don’t hold belts, or compete for that matter. It’s a good thing you’re friends with Dana White, because his “I’m pissed off” and under-developed thoughts would never have been considered.
The Issue here is, that you are not satisfied with an interim belt idea, then why are you drugged up in the first place? Guilty or innocent, you are left with a tainted image, and huge loss of respect, not only for you, but the UFC and Dana White. And for the record, little boy gone big, you are very high energy with a large lack of tools in a wide MMA spectrum, no one really respected you in the first place, and I don’t need to tell you about the now. One-dimensional is an overstatement, and now that you’ve bit the hand that feeds, you’ve probably lost 80% or more of your 25 fans.
Thanks, Mike
First off, Sherk needs to calm his roid ass down. I was at UFC 73 and watched him fight Franca, and I just wanna say he is the most boring fighter, period. His wet blanket approach to winning fights and trying to keep the belt are weak sh*t and so is he if he’s trying to tell anyone that he didnt roid up. It doesnt matter anyway, because once he has to fight penn for the undisputed title, his reign as the roid champion will be over.
dude r u an idiot he works his ass off in those fights did you see how many knees he took but he fought through hermes franca has amazing ground defense so he held off big finishes. he was hurt against kenny florian. Sean sherk is a beast ansd he’s prolly not on roids i thought he was to untill i saw how long its taking the csac he gonna be cleared and he gonna beat bj or stevenson period
[quote comment=”206366″][quote comment=”206253″]Sherk can’t get any love on these boards. I actually appreciate Sherk’s fighting style. I’m always really impressed with his strength and conditioning. He didn’t slow down at all during the Franca fight. He’s always working. That’s why his fights don’t get stood up.
I really can’t see either BJ or Stevenson beating Sherk.[/quote]
Your so wrong and because you actually think Sherk’s fighting style is good you should be banned from commenting.[/quote]
KO KING, I actually think that Penn is a great fighter too, but I can’t see how people think he is such a better fighter then Sherk. He’s lost to GSP and Hughes just like Sherk has. Penn has two very good victories against, Hughes and Gomi. Sherk has three victories against Karo, not to mention Diaz and Florian. I think it will be a great fight. Penn will get gassed by the fourth and fifth rounds and that’s when Sherk will submit him or GnP. Sherk actually has more submission victories(13) then decision(12).
I can’t believe the amount of Penn love there is on this site.
Hey buddy, this whole interim belt thing, the delay, this whole deal is because of YOU, so cool it.
Besides, BJ is gonna kill you anyway.
[quote comment=”206496″][quote comment=”206366″][quote comment=”206253″]Sherk can’t get any love on these boards. I actually appreciate Sherk’s fighting style. I’m always really impressed with his strength and conditioning. He didn’t slow down at all during the Franca fight. He’s always working. That’s why his fights don’t get stood up.
I really can’t see either BJ or Stevenson beating Sherk.[/quote]
Your so wrong and because you actually think Sherk’s fighting style is good you should be banned from commenting.[/quote]
KO KING, I actually think that Penn is a great fighter too, but I can’t see how people think he is such a better fighter then Sherk. He’s lost to GSP and Hughes just like Sherk has. Penn has two very good victories against, Hughes and Gomi. Sherk has three victories against Karo, not to mention Diaz and Florian. I think it will be a great fight. Penn will get gassed by the fourth and fifth rounds and that’s when Sherk will submit him or GnP. Sherk actually has more submission victories(13) then decision(12).
I can’t believe the amount of Penn love there is on this site.[/quote]
its the way he lost to them, you said it yourself he gassed if not for his conditioning(or rib) hughes looked liked he did not belong in there with him and their first fight he ended it quick, and sherk is no hughes. the only way sherk wins is if penn is out of shape. penn will destroy him on the ground or standing maybe in the later rounds if penn is not in shape will sherk be able to do anything and if he can’t end the fight in those rounds penn will have scored enough to win. i can’t beleave all the sherk loving your giving.and the florian fight all he did was lay on him thats no way to win.
[quote post=”3825″]KO KING, I actually think that Penn is a great fighter too, but I can’t see how people think he is such a better fighter then Sherk. He’s lost to GSP and Hughes just like Sherk has. Penn has two very good victories against, Hughes and Gomi. Sherk has three victories against Karo, not to mention Diaz and Florian. I think it will be a great fight. Penn will get gassed by the fourth and fifth rounds and that’s when Sherk will submit him or GnP. Sherk actually has more submission victories(13) then decision(12).
I can’t believe the amount of Penn love there is on this site.[/quote]
This is ridiculous. Penn beat a prime Hughes and a prime Gomi. Sherk beat Karo, Diaz, and KenFlo, but those guys haven’t even reached their peak yet. Sherk beat Karo twice when Karo was a freakin teenager, you tool. BJ did very well at WW, whereas Sherk got dominated there when faced with top opponents. Then Sherk moved to LW where not only are guys smaller, but the talent pool is a lot shallower than at WW. And most of those submission victories you speak of happened in B-class promotions.
[quote comment=”206496″][quote comment=”206366″][quote comment=”206253″]Sherk can’t get any love on these boards. I actually appreciate Sherk’s fighting style. I’m always really impressed with his strength and conditioning. He didn’t slow down at all during the Franca fight. He’s always working. That’s why his fights don’t get stood up.
I really can’t see either BJ or Stevenson beating Sherk.[/quote]
Your so wrong and because you actually think Sherk’s fighting style is good you should be banned from commenting.[/quote]
KO KING, I actually think that Penn is a great fighter too, but I can’t see how people think he is such a better fighter then Sherk. He’s lost to GSP and Hughes just like Sherk has. Penn has two very good victories against, Hughes and Gomi. Sherk has three victories against Karo, not to mention Diaz and Florian. I think it will be a great fight. Penn will get gassed by the fourth and fifth rounds and that’s when Sherk will submit him or GnP. Sherk actually has more submission victories(13) then decision(12).
I can’t believe the amount of Penn love there is on this site.[/quote]
The fight that he lost to hughes the second one you speak of, he took on 2 weeks. He fought one of the longest reigning ufc champs oon 2 weks notice. Owned him the first 2 rounds and only lost because he seperated his ribs in the the 3rd. Sherk got TKO’d in the second vs. gsp, Penn lost a split decision. So there is a huge difference between Sherk being owned by Hughes and GSP and Penn Owning Hughes for 2 1/2 fights one of which he 2 weeks to prepare for and then taking GSP to a split. Sherk is 1 dimensional, so he took a few knees then layed on top of his opponent till he got his head together. Then proceeded to lay there. They allow him to stay there because he just switchesd control but does not loose anything. Everytime he wins his opponents look like nothing has happened to them, just sweaty from having a big wet towel placedon them.
Sherk has no one to blame but himself and doesn’t get to bitch about how things progress. He should have just admitted what he did like Franca- no bs- instead of putting the fans and other fighters through all this crap.
what exactly is the interim title anyway…what does it represent and why is it there