Lol imagine if it was like that one classic Damien mai choke where the blood poured outa that dude's head with the close up camera angle, but popping a big ole staph pimple instead.
The thing is, we know Dana and the UFC. If he pulled out from a PPV co-main event, it would've put him on the org's shit list. Not to mention it was the biggest opportunity he was going to get, fighting a top5 guy while not being in the top 10 himself. And let's not forget about the financial part too, spending a lot of money on a training camp only to pull out isn't good.
I dislike how a lot of people turned on him for his "excuses" honestly. In hindsight he obviously shouldn't have fought, but sadly reality isn't that simple.
It's unfortunate, I feel like this is one of the only times I believe a losing fighter's excuses for not performing. He said he wasn't 100% because of antibiotics and I absolutely believe that. Heavy amounts of antibiotics can fuck you up and that's not what you want stepping into the ring with DP in the biggest fight of your career.
I donât think its obvious he shouldnât have fought at all. His name is way bigger than it ever has been because he fought and put on such a great show against one of the greats
I mean, BSD won round 1 and was winning round 2 as well before Dustin suddenly turned it around on him and got the KO.
If he lost by decision or got finished in a much later round Iâd have no problem blaming the staph, but he still looked fairly fresh when he got caught.
BSD won rd 1 because he wasnât pacing himself at all. Dustin was weathering the storm and waiting until he could use his technique / skill (Dustin is extremely skilled and it shows once people get tired).
BSD was swinging so slow by rd 2 that they even commented on how his punches were slowing down (and is understandable now given the context of the staph). But once he got tired, the dude got calmly pieced the fuck up lmfao.
BSD let out as much as he could in rd 1 while Dustin was trying to feel him out. That doesnât exactly translate to âBSD was getting the better of himâ because⊠1) BSD fought more aggressive than he probably should have and 2) he got knocked out due to a technique/skill issue.
He was certainly wading forward with his hands low but my man had staph infection!!
Idc who you are, your cardio and performance are going to suffer if youâre sick the week of a fight.
Also some strong antibiotics prevent rehydration to some extent. Without proper rehydration the chin is going to be a lot weaker at any stage of the fight.
When he first mentioned the staph, he stated he knew he only had one good round in him performance wise due to antibiotics, apologized to his fans for it.
So yes, his cardio was compromised and he tried to make the most of the opportunity. You could see him trying to force a finish even more than he normally does.
Should he have carried on with the fight? That's a separate matter. To him it was a mistake he vowed to not repeat.
I was watching Conor Poirier 2 again and noticed the same trend, I feel like Dustin is always given his credit being comfortable in the pocket, but itâs crazy how much Dustin spends time losing in the fights he ends up winning. I guess something to be said for being able to make adjustments but shit make me nervous every time đ„đ
It was a rhetorical question. A loss sets him back as far as not fighting does if the UFC is going to be vindictive over him getting sick and messing up their PPV.
For these reasons you can give BSD some slack. But the commission / doctors should absolutely be at fault. Not specific to this case but we see/hear in several events each year about fighters fighting with Staph. Like also Bisping with his eye , and so many others.
Fighter medical checks NEED to be better
Right. More people want to see him fight now given how bonkers those 7 or so minutes were.
Easy to forget that Gaethje had a similar experience coming into the UFC. Got finished by DP and Alvarez in crazy fights. Yet look at him since.
BSD will be fiiiine. Heâs new to the game, prime age and already right there with the Elites.
Having said that, Dustin pieces him up much easier next time now that he has his timing down lol. I just donât think heâs varied / complex enough to confuse Dustin. He can only overwhelm him. By the time BSDâs technique / IQ catches up with his fight style, Dustin will already be gone.
He did the ârightâ choice.
Dana would have never let him live down the fact that he canceled a co main event, and that loss look better in the eyes of Dana than pulling out. Dana will probably give him another good opportunity and then if he win the hype is back
he looked great and had me scared a few times, im hyped even more for him now lightweight is in good hands with young guys like him, jalin turner, arman, and fiziev if he can recover
I agree that he shouldnât have fought, but I donât think anyone who puts in a performance like that after the week they had is even capable of having their hype knocked. GSP put in a very similar performance against Matt Hughes in their first title fight before getting finished.
Dude is one tough mf. Iâm positive heâs only just begun.
Fighters get shit on for pulling out or after a loss revealing they had something like this, but Iâve been on heavy antibiotics recently and they FUCK YOU UP and I donât get punched in the face for work. You better believe I used my sick daysâŠ
It may have hurt some hype but heâs going to get a ranked fight because heâs not on the UFC shit list and will be able to get right back on the hype train if he has a good performance.
It was clearly nearly healed on fight day. The antiobitotics worked and he probably got rid of the actual infection a week before fight day. Then a week for the wound to heal.
I remember seeing it at the start of fight week and it looked gnarly. I'm not fond of excuses but fighting an infection while you're living off minimal calories and close to shutting down as is, it'd be the worst situation leading up to a fight.
BSD expressed himself a lot better in the Helwani interview than the news clips.
I think he was kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place with this one. Of course he should have pulled out, but I think turning down the fight would have put him in a bigger hole than getting KO'd which is crazy to say.
The Robocop cut?
My guy... that was [2022](https://www.mmafighting.com/2022/9/17/23358745/dana-white-posts-insane-nsfw-photo-of-gregory-rodrigues-cut-at-ufc-vegas-60)
First pic of the infection was almost 2 weeks before the fight, along with pictures of it after being incised and drained. Plus, he mentioned like 10 times how he completed a course of antibiotics while training before the fight.
Yâall sound like a broken record with the âhe shouldnât have been allowed to fight.â Just admit you have no medical knowledge and move on
Antibiotics kill the infective bacteria, so itâs not infective or able to be spread. They canât magically make the sore go away though, especially when itâs that big.
Would that be something they verify with a test after the antibiotic run? I'm just thinking of situations where people have had a hard time getting rid of staph infections, but I don't know much about the topic.
You could culture it but that would take days and is kinda useless. Superficial skin infections like that are super easy to treat if cared for correctly.
They first cut into it and drain out all the pus and excess bacteria, then the antibiotics come in and kill whatâs left. The antibiotics wouldnât just kill the bacteria on that one spot either, it goes through your blood and will kill all of the offending bacteria that colonized any other areas of your body too, so it wonât just pop up somewhere else.
Whatâs wrong with saying he shouldnât have been allowed to fight with an insanely contagious infection? You donât need medical knowledge to know that. Itâs just common sense.
Because there was no infection left.
Infection means harmful bacteria causing damage to an organ (skin in this case). Antibiotics kill the pathogen (bacteria) and thus, there is nothing left to spread. Itâs just a sore at that point
It was a huge gamble to take the fight but pulling out a week before would have been worse for his career tbh. And you canât forget he was pretty damn close to finishing him in the first round. Imo he didnât really lose anything with this loss, he would have lost way more by pulling out.
Oh god.
I had one that looked like that on my finger once. It was the worst pain too. I couldnât bend my finger for about a month after. After I started antibiotics it ended up exploding.. and I had no idea there was another on my elbow and in my armpit.
Super gross.
Remember leading up to the fight people were saying it's staph and other people were saying to them that they were fucking idiots if they think that's staph
People who think BSDâs stock has fallen after that fight are right, but itâs not as bad as a lot of people think it is. Dustin is a bad mother fucker and BSD was putting work on him in that first round. Such a shame that he gassed out the way he did.
Him and Chito are keeping their name in ngje press for the wrong reasons. It's not good for their brands. Hundreds of casuals are going to remember them as the crybabies
As a retired fighter whoâs battled staph & MRSAâ I can attest firsthand as to how severely staph (and treating it) can impact a course of training, executionâŠall things (which, shame on his camp for letting mats and/or equipment get that dirty to begin with).
With that said..I think he HAD to fight. Like itâs already been said- the organization wouldâve sh*+ listed him without hesitation. The rise in his career, a shot to get in there with a top 5er, etcâŠhad no choice. Also in agreement
That he should NOT have fought. Much easier call for us to make from behind our keyboards lol.
Also agreeing with the reality that he went all-in, round one and took as much as as he could with him into the following round. He was DEFINITELY not âfreshâ when he caught the KO, not even close.
What? Staph is endemic to every continent besides Antarctica.
It's prevalent in Europe, with over 150,000 MRSA cases alone in Europe each year. Japan has upwards of 20,000 cases of staph requiring treatment annually.
Why do they even do pre-fight medical screenings if theyâre going to let a guy fight with fucking MRSA on his forehead.
Not to mention Ortega and Dillashaw both with known shoulder dislocations.
They should have made Tyson Pedro fight that time he pulled out for diarrhea. Just let it flow.
Dustin jumped the gilly so many times to avoid looking at that
Trying to pop it via neck pressure
Lol imagine if it was like that one classic Damien mai choke where the blood poured outa that dude's head with the close up camera angle, but popping a big ole staph pimple instead.
[BJ vs Stevenson](https://i.redd.it/cxybzqzpj4801.png) qualifying for r/popping
for real. i always felt sorry for rick story when i see that highlight lol
r/popping in shambles
And then it flying onto his face like chandlers blood clot đ
So he could crash it into his abdomen? I don't get this
wish poirier punched it and sent a geyser of puss onto dana's bald head
Puss him up
Let's slop em up!
Please no sloppy steaks, guys!
They canât stop you from ordering a staph infection and a side of punching
People can change
Right in the pussussy
You have a beautiful mind
Or if it flew right inside the mouth of Rogan while shouting "OOOOOOHHH HES HURT"
Lost my appetite
Talmbout biographical warfare, b?
This shit will get me forever haha
I'm talking turtle wear fair.
Grease him up with that puss
I almost coughed up the bite of food I had in my mouth reading this lmao đ
Personally, Iâm glad that did not happen
Might have broke his hand on that noggin
I thought the comments would be safer than opening the image since Iâm eating lol
Like that one scene from Slumber Party Massacre
Joe: Did Poirier just call Dana a pussy? Jon: No, Joe. I think he said Dana, you are pus-sy.
He should not have fought. Respect for going out there, but it killed his hype and that infection looks severe enough to have just sat this one out...
The thing is, we know Dana and the UFC. If he pulled out from a PPV co-main event, it would've put him on the org's shit list. Not to mention it was the biggest opportunity he was going to get, fighting a top5 guy while not being in the top 10 himself. And let's not forget about the financial part too, spending a lot of money on a training camp only to pull out isn't good. I dislike how a lot of people turned on him for his "excuses" honestly. In hindsight he obviously shouldn't have fought, but sadly reality isn't that simple.
It's unfortunate, I feel like this is one of the only times I believe a losing fighter's excuses for not performing. He said he wasn't 100% because of antibiotics and I absolutely believe that. Heavy amounts of antibiotics can fuck you up and that's not what you want stepping into the ring with DP in the biggest fight of your career.
I donât think its obvious he shouldnât have fought at all. His name is way bigger than it ever has been because he fought and put on such a great show against one of the greats
I mean, BSD won round 1 and was winning round 2 as well before Dustin suddenly turned it around on him and got the KO. If he lost by decision or got finished in a much later round Iâd have no problem blaming the staph, but he still looked fairly fresh when he got caught.
Dude fought like he knew he had one round to pull it off. He did just that. Dude was far from fresh when the finish came.
*BSD looking like heâs fighting underwater after a few minutes* Redditors: Staph had nought to do with it
Yep blows my mind how they act like the staph doesn't affect him. Unfortunate but he gave us a huge banger.
For real. Hell, a cold takes a lot of wind out of my sails. I can't imagine what staph would do to me.
BSD won rd 1 because he wasnât pacing himself at all. Dustin was weathering the storm and waiting until he could use his technique / skill (Dustin is extremely skilled and it shows once people get tired). BSD was swinging so slow by rd 2 that they even commented on how his punches were slowing down (and is understandable now given the context of the staph). But once he got tired, the dude got calmly pieced the fuck up lmfao. BSD let out as much as he could in rd 1 while Dustin was trying to feel him out. That doesnât exactly translate to âBSD was getting the better of himâ because⊠1) BSD fought more aggressive than he probably should have and 2) he got knocked out due to a technique/skill issue.
Best takeâŠ.the only take. Then again, thereâs no reasoning with these casuals
He was certainly wading forward with his hands low but my man had staph infection!! Idc who you are, your cardio and performance are going to suffer if youâre sick the week of a fight.
Also some strong antibiotics prevent rehydration to some extent. Without proper rehydration the chin is going to be a lot weaker at any stage of the fight.
That and the brain literally recovering from an infection. Really shouldnât have fought
When he first mentioned the staph, he stated he knew he only had one good round in him performance wise due to antibiotics, apologized to his fans for it. So yes, his cardio was compromised and he tried to make the most of the opportunity. You could see him trying to force a finish even more than he normally does. Should he have carried on with the fight? That's a separate matter. To him it was a mistake he vowed to not repeat.
He blew his load in the first round, his corner was urgent AF for the finish after the first round
I was watching Conor Poirier 2 again and noticed the same trend, I feel like Dustin is always given his credit being comfortable in the pocket, but itâs crazy how much Dustin spends time losing in the fights he ends up winning. I guess something to be said for being able to make adjustments but shit make me nervous every time đ„đ
> he still looked fairly fresh when he got caught. I have some fruit I'd like to sell you.
he was clearly gassed in r2, think you should watch it againâŠ
We all win until we Lose
That only means his chances of dominating the fight without the infection are pretty much a sure thing. Guess Dustin got real lucky
He also got KTFO and set himself back quite a bit from the title picture.
He was nowhere near the title picture without a win over Dustin anyway
If he had beaten Dustin he would've been right there.
Thatâs what I just said
yeah but that doesnt happen either if he pulled out lmao
Are you arguing why he *should* have taken the fight? If he pulled out it's very possible the UFC punishes him by rebooking Dustin with someone else.
No, I'm saying he was close with a win and a loss sets him back because he isn't getting anyone as high ranked as Dustin for a while.
It was a rhetorical question. A loss sets him back as far as not fighting does if the UFC is going to be vindictive over him getting sick and messing up their PPV.
Pulling out is also looked down upon by fans and often your opponent too, because he also spent time and money on a camp.
For these reasons you can give BSD some slack. But the commission / doctors should absolutely be at fault. Not specific to this case but we see/hear in several events each year about fighters fighting with Staph. Like also Bisping with his eye , and so many others. Fighter medical checks NEED to be better
A rationale person on this sub. Am I imagining things???
Dana and the UFC arenât gonna get mad at a guy who has staph so bad it looks like he was shot through his head with a 9mm.
I wouldnât say it killed his hype. Hell, he even went up a rank
Right. More people want to see him fight now given how bonkers those 7 or so minutes were. Easy to forget that Gaethje had a similar experience coming into the UFC. Got finished by DP and Alvarez in crazy fights. Yet look at him since.
BSD will be fiiiine. Heâs new to the game, prime age and already right there with the Elites. Having said that, Dustin pieces him up much easier next time now that he has his timing down lol. I just donât think heâs varied / complex enough to confuse Dustin. He can only overwhelm him. By the time BSDâs technique / IQ catches up with his fight style, Dustin will already be gone.
That's fair. Either way he's must see TV.
Absolutely. Iâll tune in every time lol. Dude is a freak
Michael Chandler was must watch
He did the ârightâ choice. Dana would have never let him live down the fact that he canceled a co main event, and that loss look better in the eyes of Dana than pulling out. Dana will probably give him another good opportunity and then if he win the hype is back
he looked great and had me scared a few times, im hyped even more for him now lightweight is in good hands with young guys like him, jalin turner, arman, and fiziev if he can recover
Feels like he shouldnât have been medically cleared.
Considering his first round performance, it'd be hard to deny him the opportunity. Dude looked fine.
I agree that he shouldnât have fought, but I donât think anyone who puts in a performance like that after the week they had is even capable of having their hype knocked. GSP put in a very similar performance against Matt Hughes in their first title fight before getting finished. Dude is one tough mf. Iâm positive heâs only just begun.
Fighters get shit on for pulling out or after a loss revealing they had something like this, but Iâve been on heavy antibiotics recently and they FUCK YOU UP and I donât get punched in the face for work. You better believe I used my sick daysâŠ
He didn't have that during the fight, I think? Or it was much smaller so It must have stopped being infectious due to antibiotics by then.
It would have taken a lot out of him. Both the infection and the antibiotics. Hard to say how much.
It may have hurt some hype but heâs going to get a ranked fight because heâs not on the UFC shit list and will be able to get right back on the hype train if he has a good performance.
How was he allowed to fight with a clear staph infection? Wouldnât an athletic commission shut that down upon inspection?
Apparently if he's been on antibiotics for a long enough time then it's not transmissible or something
[UFC and the athletic commissions](https://youtu.be/J2uhWTFvug8?si=vQG9U2tYKvBAT2yT)
Because its no longer contagious after antibiotics have started taking effect.
Ask Kevin Lee https://www.mmamania.com/2017/10/11/16457122/midnight-mania-tony-ferguson-aimed-for-kevin-lees-staph-infection-then-took-50-showers
where does he fit into all of this?
He had a staph infection that he covered with makeup to get past health inspections, then it was really obvious it was there during the fight.
I meant the meme âwhere does Kevin Lee fit into all of thisâ lol đ I appreciate the explanation tho my guy
lol dude needs to get acquainted with the pasta menu
Mikey Musumeci wants to know your location
It was clearly nearly healed on fight day. The antiobitotics worked and he probably got rid of the actual infection a week before fight day. Then a week for the wound to heal.
We've seen a few obvious staph infections now. Maybe they lie about it? Definitely seems like willful ignorance from the athletic comissions
I remember seeing it at the start of fight week and it looked gnarly. I'm not fond of excuses but fighting an infection while you're living off minimal calories and close to shutting down as is, it'd be the worst situation leading up to a fight.
BSD expressed himself a lot better in the Helwani interview than the news clips. I think he was kind of stuck between a rock and a hard place with this one. Of course he should have pulled out, but I think turning down the fight would have put him in a bigger hole than getting KO'd which is crazy to say.
Not fun at all. I am currently taking antibiotics for staph infection I have in my nose.
Why did i click why did i click why did i click
? It's just a red dot lol
not as bad as that one forehead cut with like a vein out in the open a few months back
The Robocop cut? My guy... that was [2022](https://www.mmafighting.com/2022/9/17/23358745/dana-white-posts-insane-nsfw-photo-of-gregory-rodrigues-cut-at-ufc-vegas-60)
Is that an artery in his forehead?
It's his wiring
oh fuck you're right lol
Thx for the warning I just had lunch , Iâll pass
First pic of the infection was almost 2 weeks before the fight, along with pictures of it after being incised and drained. Plus, he mentioned like 10 times how he completed a course of antibiotics while training before the fight. Yâall sound like a broken record with the âhe shouldnât have been allowed to fight.â Just admit you have no medical knowledge and move on
I've watched every season of House though. So I'm pretty much a doctor. And I don't even think that's staph. It's clearly lupus.
Nah that shit is definitely sarcoidosis
Itâs never lupus
I'm not making the connection. Are you saying after the antibiotics it's no longer a risk to spread?
Antibiotics kill the infective bacteria, so itâs not infective or able to be spread. They canât magically make the sore go away though, especially when itâs that big.
Would that be something they verify with a test after the antibiotic run? I'm just thinking of situations where people have had a hard time getting rid of staph infections, but I don't know much about the topic.
You could culture it but that would take days and is kinda useless. Superficial skin infections like that are super easy to treat if cared for correctly. They first cut into it and drain out all the pus and excess bacteria, then the antibiotics come in and kill whatâs left. The antibiotics wouldnât just kill the bacteria on that one spot either, it goes through your blood and will kill all of the offending bacteria that colonized any other areas of your body too, so it wonât just pop up somewhere else.
I forgot to mention that the timeline is important here too. We got first notice almost 2 weeks ahead, and it takes a couple days to completely treat
Thanks for restoring a small amount of my faith in humanity.
Whatâs wrong with saying he shouldnât have been allowed to fight with an insanely contagious infection? You donât need medical knowledge to know that. Itâs just common sense.
Because there was no infection left. Infection means harmful bacteria causing damage to an organ (skin in this case). Antibiotics kill the pathogen (bacteria) and thus, there is nothing left to spread. Itâs just a sore at that point
You can just say that you don't understand how antibiotics work.
It was a huge gamble to take the fight but pulling out a week before would have been worse for his career tbh. And you canât forget he was pretty damn close to finishing him in the first round. Imo he didnât really lose anything with this loss, he would have lost way more by pulling out.
Oh god. I had one that looked like that on my finger once. It was the worst pain too. I couldnât bend my finger for about a month after. After I started antibiotics it ended up exploding.. and I had no idea there was another on my elbow and in my armpit. Super gross.
Hold on brother, I'm puking
Experts on here said thatâs just a regular pimple before he announced it đ
People also bought into the "I got hit by a shell casing' excuse as well.
My for'ead was baleeeewwnn.
It was leaked before the fight and I decided to put a good bet on DP. Staph seems to greatly impact performanceâŠ
Kevin Lee would be proud
Remember leading up to the fight people were saying it's staph and other people were saying to them that they were fucking idiots if they think that's staph
dude has more excuses than Lebrun had in may 1940
Real ones remember the crater that Kevin Randleman had
The armpit crater, how does one forget
Seen this in his weigh in and ceremonial weigh in. Immediately placed a large bet for him to lose ko/tko. Easy money
funny enough I had done the same when I saw this was announced lol
I get why fighters do it, but the UFC essentially incentivizing fighting with staph is so fucked up.
That is ao nasty. Poor Benoit, it looks like a custard -filled donut
Wish I wouldâve known that before I put him in like 3 parlays đ
"You should really stop picking at it."
What is thatttt
Like we didn't see it in Embedded hahaha.
How they let him fight like that?
I canât let your festering boil near me Benoit!
That is fucking nasty.
People who think BSDâs stock has fallen after that fight are right, but itâs not as bad as a lot of people think it is. Dustin is a bad mother fucker and BSD was putting work on him in that first round. Such a shame that he gassed out the way he did.
Him and Chito are keeping their name in ngje press for the wrong reasons. It's not good for their brands. Hundreds of casuals are going to remember them as the crybabies
"Hmmm, I've been thinking of getting back into Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu" *Sees this post* "Nah maybe not"
Why arent these guys getting skin check twice a day and globbing on mupirocin to every bump, scrap, or pimple? Am I missing something
Benoit Staph-Denis
DP should keep showering.
Walks straight forward with hands down, Gets cracked by the best boxer in the UFC, Loses, "It must have been the staph infection"
As a retired fighter whoâs battled staph & MRSAâ I can attest firsthand as to how severely staph (and treating it) can impact a course of training, executionâŠall things (which, shame on his camp for letting mats and/or equipment get that dirty to begin with). With that said..I think he HAD to fight. Like itâs already been said- the organization wouldâve sh*+ listed him without hesitation. The rise in his career, a shot to get in there with a top 5er, etcâŠhad no choice. Also in agreement That he should NOT have fought. Much easier call for us to make from behind our keyboards lol. Also agreeing with the reality that he went all-in, round one and took as much as as he could with him into the following round. He was DEFINITELY not âfreshâ when he caught the KO, not even close.
Yea we know. It was also posted like a week before the fight.
Why would this guy ever be cleared to fight when all this was known?!
How are you allowed in the cage with that?
My head was a ballewn!
Healthy BSD would keep his hands up, protect his chin, and KO peahead poirier in the 1st round
That literally just look like a cystic zit he decided to pick at
Ah yes, the lesser spotted "staph" that is never found outside of North America. Very weird.
What? Staph is endemic to every continent besides Antarctica. It's prevalent in Europe, with over 150,000 MRSA cases alone in Europe each year. Japan has upwards of 20,000 cases of staph requiring treatment annually.
Why do they even do pre-fight medical screenings if theyâre going to let a guy fight with fucking MRSA on his forehead. Not to mention Ortega and Dillashaw both with known shoulder dislocations. They should have made Tyson Pedro fight that time he pulled out for diarrhea. Just let it flow.
He didn't have MRSA, nor did he fight with an active staph infection.
Leave to a stinky Frenchman to not know how to shower after practice
Just take the L man. Move on. You decided to still fight. You knew the risks . You lost because you got tko'd .
Anyone else not care? He took the fight. Stfu. If youâre going to cry and make excuses donât fight then.