“No. No. Be of good cheer. If Mixed Martial Arts teaches us anything, it teaches us to accept our failures, as well as our successes, with quiet dignity and grace.” – Dr. Frederick Frankenstein

Of course he was greasing. That’s the only way he could have won the fight without using his “key to victory”…THE INESCAPABLE TRIANGLE!!!

I know that this is very difficult to prove. Having said that I think Ishida is a respectable fighter and his camp is a very solid camp. I am not saying Gilbert is any less respectable but I feel that this seems more legit than other incidents we have seen.

Is the answer a wipe down at the start of each round by an official?

where there was a clump of grease on GSP, that was obviously an accident by the cut man and also why would he grease fighting Alves?? He wanted to take him down and keep him down. There was no threat of submission from Alves at all. It doesn’t make sense. GSP is a true champion and would never intentionally cheat.

GSP is a true champion and would never intentionally cheat.

Josh Barnett laughs at you. He beat Couture and became a true champion. Guess what? Intentionally cheated.

I’m not saying St. Pierre did, don’t worry.

the Florian stealth text/email strikes again…..

I will say the one thing I noticed was that Gilbert is noticeably more shiny on the shoulders and back at the beginning of round two than he is at the end of round one. Whether this is just from water or something else, who knows. Otherwise, I can’t see where Ishida was ever in a dominant enough position to definitively say that Melendez could have only escaped with the assistance of grease. But thanks to Showtime’s crappy between-rounds interviews, we don’t have a look at what (if anything) the Melendez corner was doing.

So common in mma its so crazy some people here make it into a huge thing. If you trained in the gym I did, and were around the big name guys I’m occasionally around you would be speechless. I hate cheating, any form and I see it all the time. Steroids, greasing, etc is so commom amongst fighters, but mma forums are not even remotely aware of its severity.

Its like the mlb 5 years ago, basically the big name guys doing peds were 10 deep, now our whole generation of elite ball players have been exposed

Bill Douglas, Assistant Executive Officer of the California State Athletic Commission, on Monday informed MMAWeekly.com that Ishida’s camp issued a “verbal protest” about the alleged rule violation following the bout and was advised to file a formal appeal of the result.

According to Douglas, Ishida’s camp has five days from the date of the bout to file the appeal. They had not done so at the time of publication.

Representatives for Ishida’s camp declined to comment on the situation.

http://www.mmaweekly.com/absolutenm/templates/dailynews.asp?articleid=9397&zoneid=13

So common in mma its so crazy some people here make it into a huge thing. If you trained in the gym I did, and were around the big name guys I’m occasionally around you would be speechless. I hate cheating, any form and I see it all the time. Steroids, greasing, etc is so commom amongst fighters, but mma forums are not even remotely aware of its severity.

Its like the mlb 5 years ago, basically the big name guys doing peds were 10 deep, now our whole generation of elite ball players have been exposed

Hmmm, wrestlers do what when trying to hold you down? Head in your chest? Right. What’s Ishida doing in the photo? Trying to control the head and chest. Other than wrapping his arm around his opponents greased skeletal features, what else did he do? Try to control his shoulders and intercept his arms to regain control and stop strikes. That’s only when Melendez wasn’t wrapping his arms around Ishida’s head, shoulders and legs to maintain top control. Ishida was also getting a chest of facial grease during the above and how likely is it that it didn’t also smother over both of them?

So why, after a round of this, would his shoulders and arms be greasy and even harder to hold on to? Would simply a towel rub-down get rid of the distributed grease? Not likely. It’d wipe most off the surface and push the residue into his pores. Then they retouch the facial grease and they repeat – now with pre-greasing. Rinse and repeat.

Even the tiniest amount of jelly mixed with tons of sweat has to be a complete change in game. Add to the issue that they’re both covered in it by the end of the first round and you’ve got two slightly greasy guys, who are also sweaty their asses off while wrasslin’ accumulating a little more each round.

Mmmm – GREASY!

long-sleeved rash guards ftw