The flu epidemic that is hitting the United States harder than it’s been hit by tiny, sickly, organisms in decades took Josh Barnett prisoner in the week leading up to the final Strikeforce show. The “plague lords” as The Warmaster put them, couldn’t hold him down enough to stop him from putting Nandor Guelmino into an arm triangle with absolute ease in the first round, however. Props to Barnett for overcoming a ridiculous set of circumstances that left him with infection after infection swirling around in his skull. Look at what he told the Strikeforce Showtime interviewer post fight Saturday:
“This has been the worst training camp of my entire life,” “I had some sort of infection sinus thing early on and was on antibiotics for that. Then when things started to get back to normal, it turned out that I had a wisdom tooth had not fully erupted and had apparently made the thing infected and also caused the first infection. This thing swelled up, the sinus infection came back and then I had to have the wisdom tooth pulled out. After more antibiotics and finishing that round up, I get hit with this incredible Influenza A on Friday night and I had over 100 degree temperatures.”
“It was insane,” “I had no clue if I could even make it to Strikeforce to fight and that was just an opportunity for suck up that’s all. Just an opportunity to go out there and test myself. I’m not a young buck in this game, I’ve got big rack antlers on me now. I know how to adapt and I did that tonight.”
You did an excellent job running those plague lords through, Warmaster.
