5 reasons to hate Josh Barnett
You all had to know this was coming. I am a big fan of doing 5 reasons of something. Since…
You all had to know this was coming. I am a big fan of doing 5 reasons of something. Since recently public enemy number 1 is Josh Barnett, it seemed only fitting to create the 5 reasons to hate list. Now, I’m sure not everyone will agree with my reasons they certainly didn’t on my other two posts. So this time I’m putting a disclaimer, these reasons are mere interpretations of why I think Barnett is hated based on the chatter circulating the MMA world. With that out of the way, let’s get to the good stuff…
1. He took steroids. Yes very obvious, but let’s be honest it’s unavoidable. I personally get annoyed with any sports athelete who takes steroids. I can’t stand cheaters, it doesn’t matter how big or how small. What keeps me watching matches or games in any sport is the knoweldge that the best person is winning based on their natural skill. When someone decides to unfairly get an edge it drives me up a wall.
2. He’s denying he took steroids. Barnett recently said in an interview that he did nothing wrong and that he did not take a banned substance. Yea, we totally believe you Palmero. I mean seriously it’s the same thing he said when he was busted the FIRST time for steroids. If you get busted for steroids people are already going to be pissed at you, but nothing pisses people off even more then when you insult their intellegence by trying to deny that you did anything wrong. Man up.
3. He screwed over a lot of fighters. This one REALLY gets me. Now granted, it might not be 100% fair to put this all on Barnett. After all no one twisted Afllictions arm to cancel the event. However, it’s becoming widely accepted that Barnett’s postive test was the nail in the coffin for Afflicition operations. He knew that a lot was riding on his match with Fedor, and the failure of that killed everything. With the cancellation came the worst part of all, the fighters did NOT get paid. Even after they put money in preparing for the fight. They are the true victims and I think Barnett should cough up some dough.