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Kalib Starnes dismal showing disappoint fight fans

By Rod Hood | April 22, 2008

People get knocked out in record 9 seconds, some will be completely outclassed and submitted in less than a minute and we’ve seen total domination resulting in a brutal knockout, these are all possibilities that even the best MMA fighters face when they enter the cage. These are not only understood potential outcomes but accepted realities. However if you chose to enter into an MMA fight profession you are obligated to give 100% and fight to win not to survive.

“Kalib Starnes had the most pitiable showing of any fighter that I have ever seen; I was literally embarrassed for him in front of his home crowd.” This was a quote from one of our MMA fight fans and the general consensus of the emails we received following the UFC 83 event Saturday Night. We tend to want to make excuses for people in these sorts of situations because we are humans and empathetic to the way they must feel after performing so poorly, I heard some say he must have came down with the flu or something, the bottom line is that no matter how ill or just plain ill prepared a fighter is for the event they better be able to shake it off and master that moment of truth, find the heart and courage to overcome their fears, fight to win or get knock out trying. The only one I feel sorry for is the fight fans that paid admission to the event in Montreal and for the PPV fans who paid $45.95 for the fight and also for Nate “The Rock” Quarry for having to chase Starnes for 15 minutes.

Kalib Starnes should have aggressively engaged his opponent and went on the offensive and gave the crowd what they paid money to see, a professional MMA fight, but instead Starnes choose to run around the ring and stay away from danger. He seemed to be scared of getting hit, afraid of being hurt if that is the case he is in the wrong profession. There isn’t an excuse for that type of poor performance; there is not a reasonable strategy that includes running from an opponent for three rounds. I can see that if you are injured and need to buy 30 seconds to shake off the cob webs or to reset for the offensive attack or the big show jitters gets the best of you and you get a slow start I can see losing a minute or in an extreme case a portion of the round, but the obvious display of overwhelming fear, lack of readiness or willingness to engage his opponent was absolutely unacceptable.

Those fighters who perform at the highest level of professional MMA should clearly understand their obligation to fight and there should be zero tolerance for those that demonstrate that they are not ready or deserving of a position with the UFC. I think you have seen the last fight in the UFC for Kalib Starnes and a defining moment in which changes will be instituted in the prefight instructions that say you get two warnings within a fight for failing to engage and then the fight is declared a no contest or forfeiture. There should be a clause in the contracts that states that the opponent gets your paycheck if you fail to perform to an acceptable degree.

As someone else said it was just one of many WTF**k moments in the UFC 83 event.

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One Response to “Kalib Starnes dismal showing disappoint fight fans”

  1. bigfoot Says:
    April 22nd, 2008 at 3:33 am

    Starnes never did impress me any. especially when he was on the ultimate fighter.

    Tommy Speers will be back!!!!!

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