It Had to Happen: Matt Hughes Says GSP “Felt Greasy”

(‘An opportunity to criticize GSP, you say? Count me in!’)

Well, LubeGate has officially run the gauntlet. Matt Hughes is the latest former opponent of Georges St. Pierre to add fuel the greasy fire. In a blog post to his website today, Hughes had this to say:

I’m not the only one who has said that GSP felt greasy during a fight. I know Matt Serra has mentioned it and, even in their first fight, I think BJ said something. I’m not saying GSP did something wrong and I’m not saying that it would have changed any outcomes of any fights; but what I am saying is, for my last two fights against Georges, he felt greasy.

Weird, he felt greasy in those last two fights? As in, the two that Hughes lost? Interesting.

Having more opponents jump on this bandwagon doesn’t help GSP’s case any, but what I’m wondering is, if he’s been greasing himself up for years why hasn’t he been caught before now? The boys from the NSAC jumped all over him when they saw it at UFC 94. How has he managed to apply Vaseline to his body in front of cameras and athletic commission observers for so long? Is he taking a Vaseline supplement that makes it come out of his pores?

If I recall, he was handling Hughes well in the first round in both of those last two fights. And since fighters get checked over on their way into the Octagon, I don’t see how he would have applied grease to his skin before the start of the fight without being detected. I also don’t see why his camp would take the risk of greasing him for the second round after he’d done so well in the first without it.

In order to believe that GSP has been greasing for the last three or four years — against everyone from Matt Serra to Jason Miller — you either have to believe that his trainers are some of the sneakiest Vaseline-applying jokers in the world (and they aren’t, obviously), or that the athletic commissions have been grossly incompetent in detecting it, if not downright complicit in allowing it.

Those explanations seem far-fetched, and yet the accusations keep coming. Somebody better go ask Pete Spratt if GSP felt greasy to him, too.