“I think that using grease or Vaseline is completely illegal, but in this case I don’t think it made a difference in that fight,” White began to say on the air. “I know Georges St. Pierre. He’s not a cheater. He wanted this fight so bad to prove that he was the best fighter in the world. He completely dominated that fight. It had nothing to do with grease… The athletic commission is looking into it. You can not rub grease on any part of the body besides the face. [The Nevada States Athletic Commission] took all our camera work from all the different angles and is looking into it. This is the case of a stupid cornerman. The cornerman did it and he is going to be held accountable for it… Anything can happen to his cornerman – everything from a fine to never being able to work in the corner again.”
I believe Dana hit the nail on the head with this one. The situation, while unfortunate, was not a malicious attempt by Georges St. Pierre to cheat. People like Matt Hughes are coming out now and saying that they always felt like St. Pierre was greasy during their fights, but those are nothing more than a desperate attempt to soften the blow of getting handily defeated by the best fighter in the world.
But while St. Pierre is innocent in this situation, you can’t say the same for Phil Nurse and Greg Jackson. It doesn’t matter if they did it on purpose or not, because the facts are that it happened and that it happened as a direct result of their actions, whether intentional or not. They should (and likely will) be punished.
