Vet inte varför jag tycker synd om Keith Jardine, men troligen för att han torskat fem gånger i rad och för att han dessutom också puttade till en kille från kommissionen vilket leder till mer problem.
Kolla bara in intervjun efter sin förlust nu senast mot Trevor Prangley på Shark Fights.
Jardines manager John Madrid förklarar vad som hände med puttningen:
What happened, when Keith got through the crowd area, he was stopped and somebody was pulling on his shirt, out of reaction Keith pushed the guy to get him off and it happened to be (a Texas official). Sounds simple enough, but the problem really started just prior to that when there was no escort from the backstage area out to the cage.
There were no commission people or any security or anything to escort Keith out to the cage, and the TV guys are saying we gotta go. The crowd was really tight knit walking out, people reaching over the barriers grabbing at him and wanting to touch him. He’s standing there … he’s being grabbed, he turns around in instinct and pushes the guy back, thinking its an over aggressive fan, but it happens to be (a Texas official).
He’s very apologetic to that. (But) the only part that the commission saw was Keith pushing the commission guy.
Madrid försökte förklara läget men kommisionen sket i det fullständigt.
They would have none of it. They suspended Jardine on fight night, telling Madrid that it was indefinite until a hearing could be held.
Madrid tog sen kontakt med kommisionen som bara sagt att dom ska hålla kontakt med honom.
Greg Alvarez, Assistant Combative Sports Program Manager för Texas, har till MMAweekly redogjort ungefär samma som det Madrid säger, men säger också att Jardine är avstängd pga att
he pushed one of my referees.
Angående hur lång tid det kan ta att ta beslut angående avstängningen säger Alvarez:
Some take a couple weeks, some a couple months. Our agency regulates 26 other (area), not just combative sports.
