Alan Belcher has been hinting for a while with tweets like the one above that he will soon be returning to the UFC.
"The Talent" has been sidelined since sustaining a career-threatening partially detached retina last summer while training for his UFN 22 bout with Demian Maia, but according to one of his Remix MMA students he has been given the OK by his eye specialist to compete once again and is eyeing (no pun intended) a May or June return to the Octagon.
Here’s what amateur fighter Rodney Derouen said about the situation on MixedMartialArts.com’s Underground forum today:
A Maia redo or a scrap with Bisping both sound good to me. Discuss.
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commentsI'm with Videodrome on this one. A win against Marquardt, would make him top 5/6 in the division. All that would be left is Okami and Stann, and Sonnen.... (OK fine and Wandy)
With GSP on his way up to Middleweight, and the Spider already there, it's a bad time to weigh 185 lbs.
I guess my real question is who decides what is an acceptable disability and what is not? I know the answer is 'the bureaucrats in the athletic commissions', but it seems a little funny to me that poor-vision-in-one-eye isn't much worse than no-hearing. Kos' situation is a little different because he sustained the diminished capacity within the fight. Plus, in addtion to his diminished eye sight, he also had a broken fucking bone that hurts quite a bit (Randy Couture said a broken orbittal bone was the worst injury he has ever felt). I'm just saying that his eye isn't that much differnet than other definciencies that other fighters have who are licensed to fight.
I am way to lazy to look it up, but I am pretty sure the Kyle Maynard event was in a 'ho-bunk' state, so no atheltic commission to speak of. Alabama maybe? Seems sufficiently 'ho-bunk' from what I hear.
@Dojojoe
Joke dude, joke.
This is a serious question - how come Matt Hamill can be cleared and licensed to fight, but someone with severely diminished vision in one eye cannot be? I am aware that they won't be able to see things coming from one side, but I don't know that it would be any more debilitating or dangerous than not being able to hear. Plus, when you are deaf you have no equilibrium and your head is soft, so you have those things counting against you, as well.
If a commission would allow Kyle Maynard to fight, then a little eye injury shouldn't keep Belcher out. Although Maynard's fight was prob an amateur one. But still...
All jokes aside, I understand he is a fighter, but he could have lost his eyesight. He could be blind right now or possibly after any one of his fights. At this point he should really move on and find something else to do. The people close to him should be trying to convince him of the same. He faces the very real possibility of losing his eyesight for the rest of his life. How will Joe Silva feel if that happens? How will Alan Belcher and his wife feel?
I'm not discrediting him as a fighter, I just feel that another "second tier" fight against someone like Leben would be better.
@omunto
you don't know what you're talking about. a lot of people thought belcher beat akiyama.
Belcher vs. Maia was the original booking before Belchers injury and I liked Belcher as the dog in that fight, would like to get another crack at that fight because I think Belcher could win it.
Belcher is a great fighter, always exciting, well rounded and may only be behind 'fancy pants' as the fighter with the coolest shorts in mma.
@omu
Saying Belchers loss to Akiyama did not look good is like saying Evan Dunham's loss to Shawn Sherk didn't look good. Many people think Belcher's loss to Akiyama was controversial, it should not be held against him fighting Bisping or Maia, he's definitely in their league.
What did I tell you about that reading my mind shit??!!??
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