Roger Huerta Vs Gray Maynard: What Will It Prove?

Roger Huerta was the first MMA fighter to ever be featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated Magazine. This brought a lot of interest to the sport and helped "El Matador" to become a recognizable hero in a new sport.

I became a fan of Huerta's because I enjoyed his charisma and was thrilled to learn that although he was new to the sport, he had quickly established a foundation for children. I am always happy to see any cause that will help to improve a child's life.

Roger is very well spoken. His life has been full of hardships which he has overcome to offer inspiration to Hispanics and all fans of the MMA world.

When he decided to leave the sport for a job in the movies and to become a male model, I was glad that at the age of 26, he had been offered the opportunity to do what most can only dream of doing.

After he announced his intentions of leaving the UFC, Dana White came out with the discouraging news that the organization had been feeding him easy wins to pad his 20-1 record.

Sour grapes is my response to Mr. Dana White. If the UFC did do that, then shame on you! Isn't that just as bad as fixing fights?

Is the UFC going to become an extension of the WWE? Anymore it certainly seems as if it is, which is very unfortunate indeed, at least in my opinion.

Now, for the last fight on his UFC contract, Roger is facing Gray Maynard who is 9-1 with a five win streak going into this match up with El Matador.

But since Roger is already gone, what would a win do for him? And what would a loss mean to Gray Maynard, except to end his streak.

So in my opinion, this is not a fight that will help Roger in his new career, it will simply allow him to go out on a high note.

For Gray, it will either extend his win by one or end his streak, perhaps leaving him very disheartened. After all, in this case there will never be a chance for a rematch.

Huerta's fight with Kenny Florian left a bad taste in my mouth because it inadvertently lead to criticism of my favorite fighter GSP and possibly to the whole Greasegate situation.

Kenny did mention that Roger, who had been training with Georges in New Mexico, "felt very slippery." He further publicly pondered on whether Huerta had used a substance called Albacore to cut weight.

Apparently, to other uninitiated folks like me, Albacore is a cold cream type substance that fighters slather all over themselves to lose water weight before a fight. Since it is greasy, it can leave a slippery residue which would make it's user feel "greasy" while grappling.

Although BJ may never have gotten an email or message from Kenny attesting to this fact or inferring that Roger's mentor Georges "greased" or not, he could have gotten the same message that I got from reading Kenny's remarks. After all, I wrote a whole article on the topic pre-Greasegate, right here on Bleacher Report.

At any rate, I look forward to Huerta's farewell fight because I will be happy to see him get out from under Dana White's domination and damning statements about "feeding Huerta cans."

In my mind the fighters Huerta faced were certainly not cans, but some of the UFC's finest lightweights. I am proud to state that opinion too.

To Gray Maynard, who I assume will continue to fight for the UFC, I will say "good luck" friend.

Sept. 16 you could leave the ring a "winner," but like Roger Huerta, later be labeled a fraud by the big boss Dana White.

Only Nostradamus could foresee the future.