Aleksander Emelianenko failed to meet the medical licensing requirements and was scratched from his bout against Paul Buentello at the Affliction: Banned event on July 19 at the Honda Center in Anaheim, California.
California State Athletic Commission Executive Director, Armando Garcia, was unable to elaborate on the situation due to California’s very strict medical privacy laws. And since Gary Goodrich was able to step-up on such short notice to replace him, much of the fallout from Emelianenko’s ban went by the wayside.
That’s not to suggest the MMA community didn’t do its share of speculating. Everything from hepatitis to a brain aneurysm — even total heart failure — was offered as a possible cause.
Not so, according to “Sasha” (translated from Life.ru):
I passed the medical board and my license to fight was obtained without any problems. But the fact is that in California the commission is very rigid for admittance. One of the main conditions to let you fight is the ability to pass all of your tests on time. I had to be in America by July 13, the Visa was only good until the fourteenth and my tickets were purchased in advance for the fifteenth. On the whole, I was late. They thought the organizers could agree and settle the problem but they quickly found out they would not be able to get me on the card. Instead they were able to find a suitable replacement for Paul Buentello. The laws in California are so rigid.
According to Emelianenko, it wasn’t his health, rather his inability to meet the strict deadlines that California imposes on competing fighters.
The same strict guidelines that every other participant, including older brother Fedor Emelianenko, were able to meet.
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Whats next, who’s dad can beat up who?
Thanks Mike, Ill get u mine in the morning!
Kudos to you, by the way!
Kev, I sent it to you first!
And PHIL, did you get a new email address? My email to you got returned
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lol seriously, im sure shed love that
No kidding, but he is right, she does give grade a bj’s. haha
All kidding aside, did anyone expect Alex to say, “Yeah, medically I am fucked up”?
LOL, I guess that she’d be much happier this way giving props to her abilities as opposed to saying that she scrapes her teeth on my foreskin everytime she puts my goodness in her mouth.
it saved paul from getting a severe beating!
Yep.. I was thinking the same thing.. but is a bird move by CSAC..if it was a UFC I wonder if they would of cleared the fighter under these very circumstances.
thats it phil, the csac is in the ufc’s pocket and someone i’m sure outside of afflcition had to do with that nasty rumor being started.i am glad he is hep free and can fight and hope to see him on the next card.
ROY.the CSAC just issued 180 day medical suspensions (no contact) for fedor and tim sylvia and vitor belfort as well. they did say they that the suspensions could be lessened with a doctors approval. ive bean reading rumors all over the net where tom antecio has ben stating that oct 11 is not set and niehter is vegas. just some new news to passs along.
Even if Fedor broke his hand on Tim’s ugly face he wouldn’t be out for half a year. WOW, how did Fedor get hurt whatsoever?????
something smells fishy…
elbow injury (supposedly)
sounds like the csac may have an external agenda. not letting aleks fight and now suspending fedor for 6 months. i wander whose pockets the ufc is in??? i’d hope no one is taking payoffs, but with the reputation vegas has for fight fixing and the recent nba controversy, i believe anything’s possible and every athletic commission can be bought, it takes just 1 member.
LIsten, these are just estimated dates of medical suspensions…they NEVER hold up. Fighters can compete earlier as long as they get cleared by a Doctor! I promise that they will all be fighting in the March Affliction card!
Dont pay much attention to these medical suspensions….not a big deal at all!
march? you mean oct right?
yeah october! thank GOd we dont have to wait for march
Yeah, cuz March is more than 180 days away anyway.
Is everyone just going to accept this as truth now? I could definitelty see CSAC jerking a fighter around but I am not about to take this translation as fact.
look into it, do you know who ratner is
mark ratner is the former head of the nsac and now works for the ufc. i dont see what he has anything to do with the csac.
he has alot of pull talk to this guy mailto:kazja13@yahoo.com
he is from kage combat he has alot of inside info i’m not saying i beleave everything he says but he definetly knows a few things
Its water under the bridge. THe important news is that Aleks can continue his mma career, because he is a young Animal!
I really hope they book Aleks vs. Sylvia especially since Buentell is in talks to fight Pedro Rizzo!
How long in advance did he know he was booked for the fight? I guess not long enough to know what to do in order to fight.
Yea it’s a good thing he’s ok but still, he should have had his ducks in a row, it’s almost understandable I guess if that was to be his first fight in America, Fedor shoulda filled him in on the process.
Yeah, but also I dont understand that if it was too late for him, why wouldn’t it be too late for Goodridge? I dont get it?
good point
WTF!!!!
I was totally taking in by the Hepatitis theory, Jeez.
I’d been thinking, sucks to be wee bruv.
California isn’t Russia, you can’t just “Pay to Play”.
looks like buentello was saved… next time paul next time
I was at the Affliction show and talked to Paul Buentello, and straight from Buentello’s mouth, he told my friends and I that the reason Alexander was taken off the card was because the found he had Heppatittis. Believe it or not, this is what Buentello told us.
SOMEONE ON HERE SAID HES FIGHTING SYLVIA NEXT!!!!!!!WHERES THE SOURCE!!!!!!!!ANYWAY HE WOULD MURDER TIM ON THE STRIKING WATCH HIS FIGHT WITH RICARDO MORAIS!!!!!!!!!!HE KILLED HIM IN 30 SECONDS!!!!!!!!
WAAAAA!!!!!!! I LOVE CAPS AND EXCLAMATION POINTS!!!!!!!WAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Why are you yelling?
I agree that he will beat Sylvia, but did you really just compare Sylvia to Ricardo Morais? THats a garbage analogy. THats like comparing Anderson Silva to Charles McCartyhy!
It doesn’t add up. Aleks says that he couldn’t fight because he missed a deadline, yet Gary Goodridge was able to get approved at the eleventh hour before the fight. Either Aleks isn’t being truthful, or Gary Goodridge has ‘deadline immunity’ so to speak.
Excellent point.
goodridge already had a planned fight in california for later in july and already had his clearance with the csac before affliction called
He should have just stayed in san francisco sanctuary city. lol
Hey everybody! Tonight on Lewis Black’s show on Comedy Central they’re debating which is the root of all evil: Ultimate Fighting v/s Blogging. All of us could be under the influence of both!
I remember seeing a commercial for that while watching the new Gong show for the first time. I wish I can have that 1/2 hour of my life back!
They had one act called “Queefy McQueefer” where this chick came out wearing short shorts and came out with a midget wearing a George Washington wig. Little George played the trumpet to some song. The chick bent over, put the microphone to her “tate” area, used one hand to spread one butt cheek away from the other, and proceeded to queef along to the song.
LOL, I’m not kidding!
That was the one GOOD thing that I saw during that show.
Someone else PLEASE say that they saw this…
Armando Garcia needs to GFTO. He’s screwed up so many fight cards. Send him packing!!!!
please have aleks fight buentello at the next las vegas show!!!
Im sure this true. as far as goodridge im sure he already had a licence to fight in cali and just had to pass his medical stuff. alecs just didnt give himself enough to take care of clearence, lience and medical.
Still skeptical…I’ll be convinced when he successfully passes a state’s tests.
Aleks needs to rematch Baby Face……..
and send his teeth flying into the back row
Just glad he hasn’t got Hepatitis.. I was worried for him when I heard that cos it can be pretty nasty!
Cant wait to see him come back and for all the people who haven’t seen him fight, they are in for such a treat.