Starnes Claims He's Still With ATT

I can defend the reasonable.

When middleweight Kalib Starnes (8-3-1) was being derided as a coward after losing to “Rock” Nathan Quarry (10-2) last month, I took his word that he broke his foot early in the fight, tried to look at the fight through his eyes, and posted the best defense I could.

Fighters deserve the benefit of the doubt.

Wednesday, The Pit boss John Hackleman told Fight Hype, “I talked to the coach at ATT (American Top Team) and they kicked [Kalib Starnes] off.”

Again, I gave Starnes the benefit of the doubt and, as Fighters.com always does, sought his side of the claim.

Starnes told me, “Nobody from American Top Team has contacted me and said any such thing.  What kind of team would turn on you for losing a fight?  Do you think it would be reasonable for them to kick me off of the team for losing?  If they were the type of team who would drop you because you lost a fight or had some bad press, I wouldn’t want to be there anyway!”

Fine.

American Top Team didn’t respond to my request for confirmation.

Someone needs to tell Starnes when he’s said enough.

Starnes continued, “If the same people that elected George W. Bush twice and made Britney Spears the most searched name on the Internet think that I’m not a good fighter or a good person because I lost a match, well, I guess that I’ll just have to live with that.”

Huh?  Is that a poke at Americans?

Whether or not you like G-Dub or Britney Spears, it was Starnes’s fellow Canadians that booed him out of the Octagon, though I’m sure Americans would’ve been content to do the same.

That’s not even reasonable.