(F*ckin’ boo him.)
WEC lightweight champ Jamie Varner may have won a grueling title defense against Donald "Cowboy" Cerrone on Sunday — but between his injuries, the fan reaction, and his bank account, he isn’t exactly feeling like a winner right now. During an appearance on Sherdog’s "Beatdown" radio show yesterday, Varner rattled off the laundry list of ouchies that he left the cage with last weekend:
"I broke my right index metacarpal, completely fractured. So I have to get pins put in it tomorrow (Thursday). Then I go next week to see my eye doctor to make sure my retina isn’t detached. And if it’s detached it could be a career-ending injury…I broke my hand in the first or second round. I don’t know exactly where. I remember one time in the fourth round that I just couldn’t hit him with it. I told my corner that I couldn’t use it anymore…He checked one of my kicks early in the fight and that’s where I fractured my foot. Then I kicked him in the head with it in the fourth and that was it. My foot was completely done. So I walked out for the fifth round with one hand and some takedowns…I knew the fifth round was going to be boring. I couldn’t offer anything really damaging."
During that fifth round, Cerrone was able to score his first takedown of the night, then kneed Varner in the face when the champ was trying to get up. Varner’s knees — just barely — were touching the mat. Referee Josh Rosenthal halted the action and called the illegal blow unintentional, but Varner couldn’t continue, claiming that he couldn’t see. The fight went to the scorecards, and the crowd erupted in boos. Needless to say, the idea that some fans think Varner faked his injury to get out of finishing the last couple minutes of the fight doesn’t sit well with him:
“What hurt me the most was the crowd. They had no idea about the pain or suffering I was going through…No offense to the fans, but they’re a little bit ignorant and they have no idea the pain that I was enduring. For them to think I was looking for a way out — I fought close to 13 minutes with a broken hand and foot and I could’ve easily quit the fight before that. Why would I endure all that pain just to quit? I’m not a quitter. I’m a fighter. I’m a champion and I’m going to try and defend my title to the
death.”
If that’s not bad enough, Varner’s medical bills may cost more than what he made from the fight, and Frank Mir might have a personal vendetta against him. Damn, bro. Some days it’s just not worth getting up in the morning.
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Comments
Thu, 01/29/09 - 07:35
So you wanna be a fucking fighter?
Thu, 01/29/09 - 07:36
Yes I do. Varner took a beating in that fight. Hope he can continue his career.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 07:38
Varner can suckle on my ghetto chocolate balls.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 07:47
BOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
Thu, 01/29/09 - 07:47
Varner is Gabe Reutiger with a shiny belt.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 07:50
I'd love to see some of you guys fight for 5 minutes, let alone 5 rounds, let alone 5 rounds in a title fight with a broken hand, foot, and detached retina. Cut the guy some slack, shit. It was still a really good fight.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 07:50
He should have said he couldn't continue because his hand, foot and labia were broken, not because he couldn't see because of an unintentional illegal blow. It was obvious he could see fine. This was his way out and he took it....
Thu, 01/29/09 - 07:56
A shot doesn't have to look impressive to do damage. The eye is pretty susceptible to injury.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 07:58
No it wasn't
Thu, 01/29/09 - 08:14
detached retina? there's no way he's waiting around for a week to see a doctor if he even thinks he has a detached retina. he didn't continue cause he had a broken hand and foot and he knew that he would win regardless of whether it went to decision or if it were a DQ.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 08:15
It's really too bad that the fight ended that way because it is one of the best fights that you are going to see all year. Definitely top ten. If they would have scored that knee from Cerrone legal that would have been the fight of the year. Both of those guys did put on one hell of a fight even if one of them did take the easy way out late in the fight and they deserve a ton of credit.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 08:23
What a baby. No one's saying he didn't get banged up...but he was presented with an opportunity to get out of that fifth round where he was very vulnerable to being either knocked out or pounded into a stoppage and he took it. Cerrone inflicted damage over the first four rounds and wasn't given the chance to capitalize on it when Varner was becoming more and more defenseless because Varner took an easy way out. But honestly...the fact that his hand/foot/vagina was broken played no part in him deciding he couldn't continue? It was just 100% because of a glancing knee to the head that looked borderline legal for just about every replay? He knew he was in trouble...and he just admitted that in the quotes above. He knows what he did and it's exactly why he wants a rematch...once he's 100% healthy again.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 08:25
is there not going to be a pickem contest for ufc 94?
Thu, 01/29/09 - 08:29
Just have them rematch, it was a good fight. Or stick a few of the lower level UFC 155'ers in there and shake that division up a little. There are some guys in the UFC that will never win the belt there but I could easily see taking the WEC belt home.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 08:42
I forgot where I read it, but someone was addressing the fact that some fighters will drop to their knees when they're in a vulnerable position, knowing they can't be struck in the head legally. Does anyone else feel Varner did this?
Thu, 01/29/09 - 08:43
@shitwhistle you just made me poop myself.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 08:45
Im still wondering why nobody has ever mentioned the fact that when Razor Rob had him rocked, he spit his mouth piece out & pointed it out to the referee. Then the ref gives em a time out and washes it off. Sure, he came back after that and won fair & square, but that incident has always left a bad taste. Ive never seen a fight stopped for a lost mouth piece in the middle of the action. Check it out if you dont remeber. Varners tough, but hes also a shady opportunist.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 08:47
When your getting your retina checked out.. get the sand washed out of your vagina while your at it.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 08:56
The only thing he forgot to mention was his agonizing menstrual cramps.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 08:56
You guys are all missing the important point here... who's the hottie with the big tits in the photo with him in the Yahoo article?
Thu, 01/29/09 - 09:00
Why should he have to surrender his title after kickin "The Cowboys" ass up until that point. The knee WAS illegal. Damn right it was a good way out for him. It's not like "The Cowboy" caused those injuries to Varner. He caused them by being aggressive and up until that point, winning the fight. What about the heart he showed by continuing to fuckin thump that dude with a broken hand and foot. If anyone on this site says they wouldn't have quit, or wants you to believe they have more heart than Varner......ask them what organization they're fighting in, what their record is, and when they were champion. The answers to those question will prove my point!!!! These fuckin guys, I tell ya.....................
Thu, 01/29/09 - 09:09
Varner: "...and then I had to get stitches for my labia majora and minor after the fight, pussies don't heal on their own you know, so that's why I'm out for 3-5 months"
Thu, 01/29/09 - 09:18
"Fucking BOO ME!!!" What a dumbass puss. Gimme my fucking belt you little bitch!
Thu, 01/29/09 - 09:22
I have this fight DVR'd. After the decision and interviews all of a sudden Varner is in a good mood? Kick him in his vajajay next time Cerrone! What a disgrace!
Thu, 01/29/09 - 09:29
is I am with Agent Smith on this one......
Thu, 01/29/09 - 10:03
How does a fighter, in this day and age, not have health insurance? There is no way he should spend his whole fight purse on medical bills. It will change the sport forever when a fighter puts Blue Cross/Blue Shield on his fight trunks in exchange for a few stiches and some blood work. Or a Pap Smear in Varner's case.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 10:09
@ Jay.... Look, I agree. He was winning that fight until that point, but he hadn't won yet. If you're dominating a fight, but haven't ko'd the guy or made him tap yet, and you break your hand and say you can't go on... you lose the fight. It may suck, but them's the breaks. It just so happened that Varner realized he could keep his belt by saying the supposed illegal strike caused him to not see. Then he even says "I broke my hand sometime in the second round..." . It was obvious he could see just fine and was capitalizing on the turn of events. The rules are not set up that, if you're the champ and winning a fight, and you break your hand, they can stop the fight and you get a "do-over" sometime in the future. Cerrone's opponent was rendered unable to finish. The "illegal" knee happened at the right time for Varner to take advantage and he did.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 10:11
Richard Fitzentite Says: How does a fighter, in this day and age, not have health insurance? ========== I'm guessing because only someone making Arlovski-level money could afford the premiums the insurance company would demand... presuming they'd be willing to even cover a pro fighter in the first place, which I doubt.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 10:14
Whether he's hurt or not, he acted like a bitch after the fight and I could tell he was lame when he was walking to the cage. Don't care to ever see him again.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 10:17
I'm with Armfarmer on this one. Most of us would have been out of there after the broken hand. The guy took an accumulation of damage culminated by an illegal blow. All the Booers and the Vajayjay jokers need to spend a little time in the ring or on the mat to get a little perspective. Better yet, challenge this so-called pussy. I'd pay to see that.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 10:20
Okay, I try not to do this, but: How many times have you guys been kneed in the face? Especially like that. Watch the replay and watch Varner's head, he could have just as easily dropped and said he had a concussion to not continue. He said he couldn't see because he probably couldn't. Sometimes when you get hit like that your vision on that side [especially because he almost got hit in the eye] will go black or white, blurry, watery, or it may even pinhole. It may clear up in a minute, or it could take some days. Give him a break. We'll just have to wait for the rematch.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 10:26
@ Bootylam Yea. That should be a great rematch. It should happen just to quiet the criticism and allow both fighters to move on. Btw, there are no t shirts being given away in this thread, so what a waste of an 'epic' comment.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 10:30
the mans tough, i give him that, but the sand outta vagina comment was FUCKIN EPIC
Thu, 01/29/09 - 10:42
If cerrone had been winning the fight at that point he would have won the decision. Varner is tough and he wanted a rematch right away, the booing was uncalled for. Mir is a moron, I still hopes he beats lesnar though, then maybe brock leave the ufc and gets his ass handed to him by fedor. Not that the fight will likely ever happen, Fedor doesn't have many more contenders in his division.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 10:43
Fuck that. Jamie Varner is a bitch. Believe it or not, couch potato, but a broken hand is something you're EXPECTED to fight with. As the champion of an organization you should exemplify toughness. Varner is NOT champion material. Cerrone will win the rematch. You quit the fight because you broke your hand (or for any other injury caused by opponent--one way or another) and you lose.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 10:49
If he quit because he couldn't see, Why does he keep mentioning how much pain he is in from the hand and foot??? He's a b!tch!! He shoulda never beat Razor Rob... He was about to get KTFO and the ref called time so he could put his mouthpiece in. Joke of a champ.....
Thu, 01/29/09 - 10:57
This could all be avoided if we would allow knees to a downed opponent. We need to revert back to a little old school. The good ol' cock-fighting days (not that kind of cock-fighting TUF Guy). I'm gonna call Bob and get right on that. Seriously though, imagine how tough he would have sounded if he had of finished the fight like that. And Frank Mir is not a dude I want to have a problem with for any reason.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 11:06
this is why im sure all american mma fighters hate american fans, because of all of you guys. sorry you have to put up with these faggots on this site ben, you do a great job but all you have are posers that write comments on this page.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 11:08
you dont even have the balls to enter in a screen name, much less call out a savage who would knock you the fuck out with a broken hand. this is why i stick to watchin the japanese shows, so we dont have to put up with you assholes. nobody on this page has any idea what it takes to be a man, including myself.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 11:15
snicket916: I'm glad you can admit that you are not a man. Personally, I would never say that about myself. Because... I am a man. I love to test the limits of my fortitude, and so should Jamie Varner if he wants to be considered the toughest. The standards of toughness in MMA have been set already. Jamie Varner didn't live up to them. He acted like a whiny premadonna. The sunglasses were gay. He blatantly quit that fight and then cried about it in the interview, depriving everyone of a legitimate conclusion. He's a whimp and should retire.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 11:20
Now, Donald Cerrone. There's a tough guy. Heart of a champion.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 11:21
posers? ummm... anyways..i do agree that american fans are a lot more harsh then any other, but if ur gonna be a pro at anything...u gotta learn to just take criticism and move on!
Thu, 01/29/09 - 11:23
I agree, gesus. Especially if you're gonna be a pro fighter, toughness should not be an issue for you.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 11:26
You want to talk about injuries and damage, just look at cerrone. That guy got fuckin hammered from the 1st, yet he was fighting to win through and into the 5th. Varner's a beast, not taking anything away, but I do believe he sat down when he saw the knee strike coming, cuz it looked like he was startin to stand up at first; his knees were leaving the mat. IMO, that's probably why it was ruled unintentional. I've seen lots of fights whre fighters take a knee and reach for a single leg when they're rocked and afraid of being kneed in the head. But yeah, if cerrone were winning the "contest" up to that point, he would have won, so what can you do... he may have won the "fight" if it kept going though. Varner really shot himself in the foot with the fans after the fight, too... a shitty end to an exciting war.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 11:26
@Anonymous who said, "F* That. Varner is a bitch." I agree that a champion is supposed to fight through the injury of a broken hand, as Varner did. What I was implying was that you would not fight past a broken hand. And to Anonymous who said, "and then cried...depriving everyone of a legitimate conclusion." Are you trying to say that the conclusion wasn't legitimate? Was Varner supposed to overturn the decision of the judges and capitulate to cerrone? I only see one coward crying in this thread, anonymous troll.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 11:34
@ shitwhistle And I agree with you too dude. I guess all I'm sayin is that I would have done the exact same thing, NO, ......I take that back. I don't even have what it takes to be a professional mixed martial artists so, I would probably have quit after the first injury, but I would bet money that I would be a handful for a lot of people posting here saying he's a bitch for what he did. What does that make them?
Thu, 01/29/09 - 11:37
I think a lot of people on this pot are confused about what it takes to compete in MMA. It's nothing supernatural. It's choosing to be tougher than most. Taking punishment in a fight, shrugging it off and continuing to battle. Kinda like Donald Cerrone did.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 11:43
@ Sneaky Pete: So I guess "Sneaky Pete" is supposed to be your given name and not some faggot ass moniker you created? It's pretty obvious that Varner quit because he felt Cerrone turning it up at the end. The momentum was in Cerrone's favor and he may have pulled out a victory. Thus depriving the fans of a "legitimate conclusion" to the fight. You know, the reason they paid to attend the event? Remember, the doctors didn't stop the fight. Varner quit.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 11:46
He is to MMA champions as Barack Obama is to black people. A big fat faker!
Thu, 01/29/09 - 11:56
So you're sayin the champ, Varner isn't tougher than most?
Thu, 01/29/09 - 11:56
Get fuckin real people...............
Thu, 01/29/09 - 12:31
I was with Varner at first because I figured he was sincerely messed up from the knee to the head. The fact that he is using every other injury he endured in the bout and barely mentioning the illegal knee shows that he did in fact take the opportunity to get out with his belt while he could. He had time to recover and the honest thing to do would have been to carry on with the fight and not hamm up the illegal knee and loss of sight. He is undeniably a tough dude and I respect him for that but he used a shady tactic to keep his belt when he could have very likely won a decision if he made it out of the round. Big IF the way it was looking. Karma will get Varner in the rematch so sleep with that belt every night.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 01:32
Why do these guys always say lame sh!t like..."I'm going to defend my title to the death" but in reality they quit? Comments like that deserve to be boo'd or criticized, but his performance does not. Varner is a tough guy and a good fighter, but appears to be a bit stupid.
Thu, 01/29/09 - 02:17
Fuck you all the worm rocks... war varner get better fuck cheaters
Fri, 01/30/09 - 07:27
Anonymous, how do you know you aren't speaking to fighters right now?? Some of us just may know a little bit about what it takes to be a fighter. You on the other hand do not. Varner should just admit that he quit and redeem himself another day instead of copping out behind his injuries. Bottom line is, he quit because he "couldn't see".. I believe he had another perfectly good eye..
Fri, 01/30/09 - 12:42
this is why most american fans are douche bags... booing when shit hits the ground and booing when doctors cut the matches short. go watch WWE you fucking tools.
Fri, 01/30/09 - 02:25
uhhhhh thanks agent douchbag. I'm assuming that the premium per month would be less than what his entire purse would cost so in Varner's case it would have been a fucking bargain. Also please read comments in their entirety. You missed out on how I part of the solution, not part of the problem (sponsorship from a hospital/health insurance company). You also missed an unjustified and epic comment about Varner's Vag.
Sun, 02/01/09 - 06:57
Varner also suffered detatched integrity as a result of that illlegal knee
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