CSAC To Get Medieval On Antonio Silva
Antonio Silva
Just when you thought it was safe to pull one over on the California State Athletic Commission, word comes down that Antonio “Bigfoot” Silva is getting slapped harder than Badr Hari after the K-1 GP Finals. According to Dave Meltzer of Yahoo!Sports, the CSAC has not taken kindly to Silva’s blatant disregard for the steroid-related suspension he received this past summer, and as punishment are now looking to revoke Silva’s fighter license. The commission is even going an unprecedented step further, fining Silva’s manager (Alex Davis of American Top Team) $2,500 just for negotiating the Sengoku bout which Silva won only two days ago.
So how bad would a revoking of Silva’s license really be you ask? This bad:
“A license revocation would mean Silva, and his corner men, would be banned from fighting in all U.S. commission states until California granted him a new license, which would be no less than one year from the date of it being revoked. Such an action would force whatever form EliteXC that potentially resurfaces this year to strip Silva of the title.”
Well there’s always the land of the rising sun, right Antonio?
Given, Antonio Silva didn’t have to ignore the CSAC’s ruling to instead compete in the “we don’t care” island of Japan, but I do feel a little sympathy for the guy. The man has to eat just like anyone else and being suspended from your job for one year, especially in this economy, has to be difficult even for a mildly popular professional fighter. Not to mention the CSAC has its own ocean of problems which seem to bring down their credibility about every other week.
Any how, Silva will have his day in front of the commission on February 10th, where he and one can only imagine a variety of lawyers will be doing their best to mend fences with Bill Douglas and crew. Oh the suspense.
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in that picture, antonio silva looks like a mix between tito ortiz, and channing tatum. hahahahaha am i right
No you are wrong. There is only one thing that can ever be said about that picture.
Gayest.
Sasquatch.
EVER.
LMAO!!!!!! I’m actually laughting out loud here dude. That was great. Gay sasquatch….LOL
I think he’s covering his steroid-induced man-tits as well.
nice DbiZ and to you mr.Diablo have you gotten your post count up yet?
We said it before the fight, and I’ll say it again. That was a dumb move, regardless of the questionable nature of the original suspension.
he gets what he deserves! what did he think they would not know? he wasnt fighting in space he was in japan I knew right when i heard he was fightin he was $#@%in stupid & he was prolly done.Just shows ya stop using #$@%ing steriod enhancers 4 #@$& sake!! What up justin,fr702
The CSAC is stepping over their bounds on this . They are the governing body for california … not the world . if they dont want him to fight in their state or even the US thats fine … but what happens outside their area is not up to them .he has bills that need to be paid just like the rest of us
So true. Suspensions given out in the US are very long; 9-12 months usually. That’s a long time to be out of work, especially if you don’t own your own gym or have other forms of income. If Japan will take fighters with suspensions, that’s between the CSAC and whover governs things in Japan.
Maybe now with the increased salaries we’ve been seeing over the last few UFCs fighters won’t feel the need to use banned substances for that extra little edge for the win bonus. It wasn’t too long ago guys on the main card were getting 7/7; look at Jardin, he only got 14K including bonuses for beating Lidell.
Let me give you an analogy.
A guy commits a relatively minor crime and is sentenced to some house arrest. Hard to make a living, but not impossible. Instead of serving it, he jets off to another country for a year. He manages to come back to another state, but is pulled over for speeding on his way to work.
For skipping his sentence, he has an arrest warrant out for him. He is halfway across the country, technically out of the jurisdiction of the state/county he was convicted and sentenced in, but the warrant turns up when they run his ID.
By your logic, he should NOT have to serve his sentence, since he is outside the jurisdiction and only skipped so he could make some money for his family.
I don’t think I need to take that any further, do I?
That is probably the worst analogy I have ever heard. As far as I know he is suspended from fighting anywhere in the US by the CSAC.
A correct analogy would be:
You are a taxi driver. You have many outstanding traffic tickets you have not paid and get your license suspended for six months or until you pay. Instead of paying off your fines, you move to Japan and get a license there and work for 6 months. After, you return home and get and go to your local licensign bureau to get a new one.
Except that by not paying your tickets and fleeing the jurisdiction, there is every chance you won’t get your license back because by not paying the fines, you forfeited it.
But maybe you’re right. After all, who is the CSAC to say that anyone who wants to be licensed to fight by them needs to follow their rules?
Here’s how it comes down. Is revocation possibly too much? Yeah, maybe. But by FLAUNTING his decision to ignore the suspension, he at least deserves to have his suspension doubled or tripled. Every time he fights elsewhere.
Or he could just stay in Japan and not worry about it. Either way, he’s lost his belt.
And because you’re apparently not bright enough to get it, I’ll explain why it wasn’t a bad analogy.
CSAC = California. Rules = laws. Suspension = house arrest. Running to Japan = running to Japan. Revocation of license = warrant. Trying to get licensed again = running ID. It all adds up.
I just wanted to talk down to you again. It’s fun. and very easy.
If you knew anything about law, I would concede to this point, but you’re 100% wrong. You can’t get arrested for violating terms of the CSAC, therefore it is not law. Maybe in your little world the CSAC makes up the worlds laws. But the point is the suspensions handed down by the CSAC are for fights in the US ONLY. Period. Maybe if there were clauses in the suspension that states fighting anywhere worldwide results in a ban for x amount of months or years, but to the best of my knowledge it doesn’t. You’re comparing apples and oranges here. What the original point is is that the CSAC is steping beyond their limits. If Silva were to fight in the US on an Indian reserve then suspend him for life by all means. But that’s not the case.
Man… Here I go having to be the voice of reason yet again. Diablo, as long as there is competition, there will be people trying to get an advantage on the competition. A little extra money will have no effect in the least on that. See all the other professional sports. He is having his license to fight in the state of California being revoked and the other state athletic commissions that sanction MMA fighters are honoring that suspension. It would be like a doctor who had his medical license revoked for a year in New York not being licensed to practice in Idaho on the same grounds.
I have no problem with this. If Sasquatch wants to run off and not fulfill any suspensions, he doens’t have to. But he won’t be fighting in the US until he’s cleared. End of Story.
I don’t think that the CSAC is over stepping its bounds in this situation. I also think that BSBiz made the most clear argument, but I did like your analogy DBiz.
I do have to point out, though, that Silva fighting on an Indian Reservation is no different from Silva fighting in Japan. Indian Reservations are treated as a sovereign land. That’s why they can have casinos in states that don’t allow gambling.
Yes and no, Justin. They are still part of the United States and subject to oversight by the US Department of the Interior.
Also, Diablo is an idiot, since he didn’t pick up that a warrant in California is acepted anywhere uin the US…HEY! Kinda like that suspension! If you run away from one, it’ll bite you when you try to come back.
Funny how that works out.
dbiz, you’re just ignorant for the sake of being ignorant. What is going on here is you have a non-American fighter who got suspended in California (and by default all states that regulate MMA) who thought it would be OK to fight in Japan. The CSAC ruling/ban is not international; no one body save for the United Nations has that power. The point of my argument is that the guy should be able to fight elsewhere and that the CSAC is getting a little power hungry, and I stick by that. It’s like what Dana did when the IFL came onto (and then quickly out of) the scene. He said “well if you go over there you can’t ever come back here”. And guess what, he’s taken MANY IFLers back into the UFC. Silva may be suspended further, but I’m sure after appeal he’ll be back (albeit unfortunately) at Strikeforce in no time.
But the CSAC does legally have the right to sue Silva’s manager and whoever governed the fight in Japan. But let’s see if the CSAC has the balls to sue them.
eldiablo,
Sorry, I have to say you’re the one being ignorant for the sake of being ignorant. Even if Silva gets his license revoked by the CSAC, he can still go back to Japan and fight again, he just can’t fight in the US. Silva applied for a license with the CSAC and therefore has to abide by their rules and their decisions. If they decide to take that license away, they can, he doesn’t have a “right” to a fighting license.
what did i miss? i dont care either way really who will he be fighting for anyways and if he cant fight in California im ok with that too
to me it like getting kicked out of mcdonalds for throghing food! then they get pissed you go to burger king or wendy’s. if they don’t want you there why can’t you go somewhere else! beside the fact they are T-bags?
There is nothing to say he can’t go somewhere else…he just can’t then go back to McDonald’s. And in this particular instance, BK, Wendy’s, KFC and Arby’s have all agreed to honor the McD’s suspension. So he’s stuck eating at Sushi Shack.
Personally I think I would prefer Sushi Shack to all of those you mentioned. Arby’s being the only one I would really consider.