This statement officially disqualifies anything you say after it, since, in the same sense: if you haven’t made a movie, you can’t talk about movies, if you haven’t fought in a war, you can’t talk about the war in Iraq, if you don’t have cancer, you can’t talk about cancer, etc.

Starnes chose to not fight. Period.

The UFC is making money hand over fist and paying ****, it’s pretty bad when fighters are making more in other organizations and Dana says the UFC is leading the way? It’s time either Dana pulls his head out of his *** or the Fertitta brothers send him packing!

Secondly, this was a gamble of a match-up that could have gone either way. Quarry, at his age, and with his recent fighting history, considered this a make-or-break fight. Starnes, who took a heavy beating in his last fight against Alan Belcher (which I personally think was a bad fight on Kalib’s part), probably thought the same. Kalib has a stronger ground game than Nate (and knows it), which meant that Nate did not want to engage up close. However, as a striker, dealing with a limping opponent, Nate should have finished this. But, he didn’t want to move in. Starnes, on the other hand, was clearly waiting to try and gas him (which didn’t happen). This is a Joe Silva issue, and even he can’t predict how a fight’s going to be.

As a final statement, I must say that I’m so sick of people who expect every UFC fight to be a Griffin VS. Bonnar war-for-a-contract. These men train to be tactical and they create gameplans in order to follow them. This fight didn’t work out. Starnes is in a bed that he’s made, and no amount of ****ing is going to make him feel worse, just like it’s not going to make any of you feel any better about yourselves. Come on now…things are what they are. Now, go join a gym/dojo if you want to see what your body can take when it’s not behind a keyboard and computer.