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Post by Ian from 616Entertainment. on Jun 25, 2011 16:55:55 GMT -5
Following Saturday’s news that Nate Marquardt was forced from Sunday’s UFC Live 4 card just prior to the event’s official weigh-ins, UFC President Dana White posted a video on his verified Twitter account stating that the one-time middleweight title challenger will be released from the Las Vegas-based promotion.
“He failed his medicals,” said White. “Not only is he out of this fight, and out of the main event on Versus, he will no longer be with the UFC.”
Marquardt, 32, was slated to make his UFC welterweight debut and headline the event against Rick Story before he was pulled for the card due to unknown medical issues. Story will now face AMA Fight Club welterweight Charlie Brennemen. The bill, set to go down at the Consol Energy Center in Pittsburgh, will now feature a main event pitting Patrick Barry against fellow kickboxer Cheick Kongo.
The Grudge Training Center product was 10-4 with the UFC, and challenged Anderson Silva for the promotion’s middleweight crown in July 2007. Marquardt was stopped in the first round by punches.
-Sherdog.
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Post by James Hetfield on Jun 25, 2011 16:57:09 GMT -5
Included in the event thread, but this does deserve its own thread.
I heard from a few guys that Nate talked up about how easy the cut would be when he showed up in PA on Tuesday, but at the weigh-ins (today) he was 181lbs and not allowed to dehydrate more, and thus failed medicals.
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Post by Adam235 on Jun 25, 2011 17:07:27 GMT -5
This news is a shocker for me but I didn't understand why he wanted to drop down in class anyway. He has put on some good fights so it sucks he got released.. Damn lol
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Post by SteveHulk on Jun 25, 2011 17:18:07 GMT -5
Following Saturday’s news that Nate Marquardt was forced from Sunday’s UFC Live 4 card just prior to the event’s official weigh-ins, UFC President Dana White posted a video on his verified Twitter account stating that the one-time middleweight title challenger will be released from the Las Vegas-based promotion.
“He failed his medicals,” said White. “Not only is he out of this fight, and out of the main event on Versus, he will no longer be with the UFC.”
Marquardt, 32, was slated to make his UFC welterweight debut and headline the event against Rick Story before he was pulled for the card due to unknown medical issues. ...how come they are releasing him though? Seems a bit strange, unless the UFC are really pissed at him... |
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Post by James Hetfield on Jun 25, 2011 17:20:09 GMT -5
It's probably something we don't know... YET.
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Post by Boquest on Jun 25, 2011 17:21:27 GMT -5
I'm going to guess he got caught tampering with his drug testing. Regardless either way...wow.
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Post by Mr. Orange on Jun 25, 2011 21:25:23 GMT -5
Well looks like I got it right in the event thread, with him weighing in HUGE. But I think it was that and maybe tampering with the test as well. But who knows.
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Post by Torn Quad Trips on Jun 26, 2011 8:04:08 GMT -5
he should get released. he was part of the main event. spike is/was doing a marathon run of his fights. now he's not fighting? he's losing a bunch of people a bunch of money. and to bail THE DAY BEFORE is ridiculous. it's a total d-bag move, in my opinion.
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Post by Daryl on Jun 26, 2011 12:21:35 GMT -5
There was a video crew following him around, here's the link: nbcsports.msnbc.com/id/22825103/vp/43539534#43539534He gets on the scales at least twice. The last time he weighs himself he weighs just over 170 and is happy because it's not a title fight so is allowed to weight 171. Unless the weighing scales were seriously wrong, then the reason for his release should be nothing to do with him being overweight. |
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Post by Patrick Bateman (original) on Jun 26, 2011 12:52:46 GMT -5
It is not being overweight. He made the 170 lb weight. It's not a steroid or anything like that, because they would not have the results yet 2-4 weeks. It is something pretty bad.
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Post by Sandy on Jun 26, 2011 13:53:51 GMT -5
Other forums are guessing it is a medical issue that could spread...like Herpes.
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Post by Thick Justice on Jun 26, 2011 14:12:02 GMT -5
Other forums are guessing it is a medical issue that could spread...like Herpes. Didn't even think of that. That is a possibility. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 27, 2011 0:13:03 GMT -5
Just read about it, that's a real shame, was interested in seeing how Marquardt would do at welterweight.
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Post by Kliquid on Jun 27, 2011 2:08:52 GMT -5
Nate will be talking about the situation on Tuesday, according to Twitter.
But the Athletic Commission representative said that it was something that he could fix. So, it's obviously not AIDS or Herpes, Hepatitis, etc.
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Post by SteveHulk on Jun 27, 2011 2:16:48 GMT -5
Dana White:
"Nate Marquardt's gonna have to man up and come out and tell the world why he didn't pass his medicals." "When he does that I think everybody is going to understand why he was cut from the UFC."
"I think it's pretty clear to the fans and everybody else that I'm pretty disgusted with Nate Marquardt. He's been cut from the UFC, he won't fight in the UFC ever again." "Bottom line is, what Nate Marquardt's thing is, it's bad enough to be cut from the UFC."
Hmmmm... I'm trying to work out what it could be(?)
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Post by Patrick Bateman (original) on Jun 27, 2011 2:20:25 GMT -5
Dana would not fire a guy over a staph infection or a legit illness. Has to be an STD like crabs or gonorea (spelt that wrong I'm sure). Genital warts? Whatever it is Nate will never be the same again. It's to soon to fail a pre fight.
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Post by Squatch on Jun 27, 2011 2:22:11 GMT -5
I wonder if Nate Marquardt got a crappy attitude around the bosses and was fired for that reason. I would have to guess it has nothing medical about it.
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Post by Johnny Lawrence - Cobra Kai on Jun 27, 2011 8:21:54 GMT -5
I'm pretty stumped about what the cause could be, after reading Dana White's reaction.
Telling Nate to "man up" and tell people why he failed his medicals isn't typical language. If it were an STD or staph, or something like that, I wouldn't expect Dana to be so pissed off, and I definitely wouldn't expect the accusatory "tell everyone what you did" tone. If it were staph, he probably wouldn't have been fired, much less publicly shamed.
If it were a contagious STD or something, I could see the UFC releasing him for safety reasons, but I wouldn't expect them to publicly shame him into sharing that personal info with the world.
Steroids or other banned substances seems like the easy answer, but my problem there is why did the commission know about it early and expect him to correct the problem before the fight? Why wouldn't they have immediately just scrapped the fight, since it's a banned substance?
Or maybe it was a banned substance that he talked his way out of punishment for the first test (steroid for recovery from illness with prescription, perhaps), and showed up with an even larger dose for a subsequent test?
Weird situation.
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Post by Patrick Bateman (original) on Jun 27, 2011 12:14:34 GMT -5
I'm pretty stumped about what the cause could be, after reading Dana White's reaction. Telling Nate to "man up" and tell people why he failed his medicals isn't typical language. If it were an STD or staph, or something like that, I wouldn't expect Dana to be so pissed off, and I definitely wouldn't expect the accusatory "tell everyone what you did" tone. If it were staph, he probably wouldn't have been fired, much less publicly shamed. If it were a contagious STD or something, I could see the UFC releasing him for safety reasons, but I wouldn't expect them to publicly shame him into sharing that personal info with the world. Steroids or other banned substances seems like the easy answer, but my problem there is why did the commission know about it early and expect him to correct the problem before the fight? Why wouldn't they have immediately just scrapped the fight, since it's a banned substance? Or maybe it was a banned substance that he talked his way out of punishment for the first test (steroid for recovery from illness with prescription, perhaps), and showed up with an even larger dose for a subsequent test? Weird situation. But it takes 2-4 weeks for blood results. There's no way they would of already known. Diaretic? Maybe an injury that was never healed, but they tought it would. A concussion he had but never got the clearance he was supposed to before he showed up to the weigh ins. |
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Post by tnafan17: The Total Package on Jun 27, 2011 16:35:24 GMT -5
This is tough. It must be something serious though.
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