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Dana White on the Kalib Starnes Fiasco

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#1 ·
Nate Quarry vs. Kalib Starnes (middleweight, 185 lbs.)
This one was as ugly as the Bernard Hopkins-Joe Calzaghe boxing match. Starnes was thinking defense all the way. Quarry chased him for 15 minutes, and the Canadian crowd turned on Starnes, a native of British Columbia, booing him throughout the fight.

They also showered him with boos in the post-fight every time his face was shown on the screen. Starnes clearly didn't get it laughing at the crowd and egging it on to boo more.

Quarry, normally a class act, lost his cool with 30 seconds left in the fight. "The Rock" started mock running in the cage and then actually starting fighting with one arm. Starnes (8-3-1, 2-3 UFC) would not take the bait and continued backing away.

"I didn't mean to disrespect him or his camp," Quarry said. "It's tough to land a shot when someone is moving backwards the whole fight."

Starnes' fighting spirit has been called into question in the past. He reached the UFC through an appearance on TUF 3. He got a bad rap during the show when he quit a fight because of a rib injury.

White was very critical of Starnes in the post-fight interview.

"It takes two guys to fight. Nate is the only one to show. If I was fighting in my home country, I'd rather get knocked out than run around like that. I think he'll wake up tomorrow and wish he fought a different fight."

Quarry (16-2, 5-1 UFC) got off the cleaner shots and won. Apparently, Starnes irked the judges as well. One judge scored every round 10-8.

Quarry over Starnes by unanimous decision (30-24, 30-26, 30-27)
In other words enjoy your new career at Yamma Pit Fighting!:doh01:
 
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#35 ·
YOu know what was really sad, rewatch the Starnes vs Belcher fight and in the pre fight interview listen to what Alan Belcher says. I think he said something along the lines that Starnes runs away in fights and doesn't come to really fight.

Wonder what Alan thought after he saw starnes run away in UFC 83. lol
 
#6 ·
Starnes should fight Fedor as punishment.

Remember his last fight, when it was stopped because of a cut and he yelled out "F*ck you I want to fight". Someone should make a video or gif of him saying that and then show him running hahaha.
 
#12 ·
I am extremely disappointed ... even disgusted... with his performance (or lack thereof). Teh funny thing is that a lot of people thought he had a good chance to win as he apparently has a reasonable ground game and his striking supposedly has improved a lot lately. Sadly we had no indication that any of this was true -- only that he had good backing up skills.

I can't see him fighting in the UFC again - I think he just flushed his career down the toilet.

Really who would pay to see him fight again for more of this crap? Not me. Now when I think back I remember there were some concerns about his lack of heart on TUF when he quit because of a rib injury. It makes you wonder if that was BS too.
 
#22 ·
I don't agree with that, Starnes has shown that he has plenty of talent, but he has no heart. His ground game is solid and his striking really isn't that bad. He wilts once someone actually starts fighting back. The guy could be something if he had a different mindset, but now, he's in David Loiseau territory. Wasted talent.
 
#23 ·
sorry but where does a 'solid ground game' get you when your takedowns are terrible....and his 'solid ground game' is far from what i would call someone whose 'talented'.

he's one of the least athletic guys in the mw division...heart or no heart, gas tank or no gas tank, you give that guy 5 more years of intense training and he'd still be pretty bad.
 
#27 ·
well then he is a terrible fighter and not UFC material. Everyone in the UFC or at least the majority fight to win as they are hungry to advance pay wise and career wise. To run away in front of the world as a professional fighter is down right cowardly. He was not willing to engage the whole fight. If I was Nate I would not of shook his hand at the end of the fight. So he may be a good fighter when the opponent is not fighting back, but that is rare. Also him swearing at the world after his absurd performance is down right disrespectful.

Did he even give a reason for why he fought so poorly? I hope he regrets this fight for the rest of his life and is removed from the UFC.
 
#26 ·
i don't want to see him anywhere, ever again, under any circumstance. i don't want him fouling up WEC, i don't want to hear bill goldberg saying how huge an acquisition he is for elite xc, i don't even want to see him getting beat up by little kids at the local playground. whatever talent he may have had at some point much earlier in his life was greatly overshadowed by his phenomenal talent of flipping his middle finger to the guy he was running from like an angry, helpless, little sissy. i will purchase no card or watch any show that contains this utter joke at anytime in the future.
 
#29 · (Edited)
i don't know, i thoroughly enjoyed watching nate. he put together some fine combinations and kicked the snot out of that sissy's left running appendage. after this fight, i have become a fan of nate where i was rather neutral on him before. the only thing i wish nate had done differently would be if he would done a charging double-leg take down and pounded that sniveling, little sissy's face straight through the mat. but putting my bloodlust aside, the way he mocked his opponent has got to be the funniest thing i have ever seen in the cage, props to nate!
 
#30 ·
The thing that blew me away(besides the pathetic running away) was when Nate mocked him with the running and all Kalib does is freaking flip him off?!? Yeah- that showed 'em don't throw a punch or kick and show zero heart. Grow a sack.

Dana looking at his contract and: :bye02:
 
#31 ·
kalib is a really nice guy, he took a loss just so he could try and get his opponent in better shape, he's a class act if you ask me.

kalib should start his own martial art called 'run fu'
 
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