Poor Rick Story. He travels across the country from Vancouver, Washington to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to fight Nate Marquardt. But Marquardt flunks his physical for undisclosed reasons and gets banned from the UFC (Banned! For flunking a physical! That doesn't happen lightly. No way to know for sure, but I'm guessing recreational, illegal drugs were found in his system. Dana White seems like the kind of guy who wouldn't tolerate a heroin addiction.) and Story ends up having to fight a local boy, Pennsylvania's own Charlie Brenneman.
Obviously, that's a home court advantage for Brenneman, and it showed up in the judging. Yes, Brenneman was the more athletic fighter. (And he definitely had the more impressive beard and hair -- guy had like a lion's mane thing going on.) He was quicker and he took Story to the mat time and again with double-legged take downs. But once they were on the ground, Story always dominated with his jiu-jitsu. Brenneman did no damage, throwing weak punches while barely evading -- and I mean just barely -- submission attempts by Story. Numerous times, Story nearly finished the fight on guillotine chokes and triangles. All Brenneman did was survive. Yet, somehow, Brenneman won a decision.
The fix was in.
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