[Bas Emelianenko]

After watching Kalib on the TUF show, his fights since then (including the Belcher & Quarry fights), and his sherdog posts, I just don't think Starnes is a fighter at heart. I'm not trying to insult him or anything... 99% of people either couldn't or wouldn't even get in the cage/ring in the first place.

Ken Shamrock questioned his heart on the Ultimate Fighter; he quit due to body shot injury on the show (separated ribs or something); his "i can't see" moment when the doc checked out the cut in the Belcher fight (which was stopped); and his backwards marathon during the Quarry fight.

I think he needs to take a long look at himself and decide if he really wants to be a fighter.

Posting on sherdog afterwards with excuses and lame threads doesn't really help his case. Neither does calling the opponents cornermen f ags. Or telling off a legend in the sport (Shamrock) because he's pushing you too hard in training.

All the excuses in the world won't change the fact that he singlehandedly turned an entirely pro-Canadian, pro-Starnes audience into the loudest, most unanimous chorus of boos against a fighter I've ever seen/heard in my life.