Herschel Walker’s Strikeforce Opponent Lashes Out At Critics

Added on Nov 10, 2010 by John Petit in

UFC & MMA

If you are a daily reader, you probably read of my disdain for the Herschel Walker Vs Scott Carson fight. If you aren’t, and you actually know who Scott Carson is without looking up his stat sheet, then you probably know your mixed martial arts pretty well. In short, Herschel Walker gained a lot of attention for MMA, and Strikeforce when he fought a mediocre fight against Greg Naggy. Shockingly, he has decided to take another (yawn) MMA fight. This time against Scott Carson who has fought once since WEC 1! If you are doing the math in your head, that was 10 years ago. He has one fight since, and was knocked out by a guy you never heard of, on a card from a promotion I never knew existed.

Strikeforce has sent out a press release and Scott Carson isn’t happy with the reactions he is getting from the MMA community. “I’ll tell you one thing. I’m a lot better fighter than the one I’ve been reading about on the Internet,” Carson said. “This is a huge deal for me, a tremendous opportunity, but you’d think I was nothing going off what has been written by some of these keyboard warriors, who I doubt have ever stepped in a cage. It’s a lot easier to sit in front of a computer and talk [stuff] than it is to actually fight.” Granted Scott, I never fought in a cage, but I doubt many baseball statisticians and analysts have ever played a MLB game, but they still know when to call a squeeze play. I know what a mediocre fighter looks like, or in this case, doesn’t look like. He hasn’t fought in a decade!

Carson spent the better part of the last ten years rehabbing a back injury that no one seems to know where it came from. He used to train with Chuck Liddel (a long time ago, in a galaxy far far away,) and he is now fighting out of Reign Training Center in California. He continued “I was out a long time because of my back and I did rehab for a while, I never thought much about not fighting again; I always wanted to come back. But I couldn’t do anything until I was 100 percent. Once I got healthy again, I got better the more I trained,” Carson said. “I’ve helped a lot of guys get ready for fights while waiting for my chance. I had a few fights lined up before my last fight, but they all fell out for one reason or another.”

Carson seems to be under the impression we [the media] are writing him off because he is 40 years old, and this isn’t the case in my book. I am writing him off because he isn’t a proven fighter in any division, even against a mediocre opponent like Walker.

He concludes “They say I’m old at 40 but I don’t feel 40 and I certainly don’t look 40. I think I look 30 and I’m in great shape. I’m ripped, just like Herschel, I’m going to be more ready for Dec. 4 than I have been for any other fight. I plan to shut up all the critics, each and every one of them. Let them write something factual after they’ve seen me on Dec. 4.” The bad news is this isn’t a beauty contest,and it doesn’t matter what you look like while you’re getting punched in the mouth. Six pack abs won’t even win you sparring rounds let alone a professional fight.

This is a ratings grab, at best, for Strikeforce. No matter who wins this fight it will get them absolutely no where in the division. Carson needs to be happy that someone like Walker would even consider fighting him at this point in his career. This belongs on a Strikeforce Challengers card, and even then I would probably skip it if it wasn’t my job to watch it.