August 28th, 2007 by Jemaleddin Cole

I just sent this email through the con­tact form on Josh Barnett’s website:

Hey Josh,

Loved what you wrote about Randy - except the part about you being the right­ful champ. If being the champ was impor­tant to you, why didn’t you fight clean?

Anyway, I’d love to see you fight in the UFC, but please lay off the Vit­a­min S this time.

Love and kisses,

Jemal

3 Responses to “An Open Letter to Josh Barnett, RE: UFC 74”

1. Great arti­cle about Randy, thanks for point­ing it out.

   — UFCRingGirls.com August 28th, 2007 at 8:52 pm #

2. I don’t think it’s fair to crit­i­cize a guy like that with­out includ­ing your street address in the post. C’mon, what could it hurt? And it’smuch more polite and cour­te­ous.

   — skank August 28th, 2007 at 10:46 pm #

3. Actu­ally, from the info I’ve got on the inter­net, you can pretty easily locate me with very little work. You should poke around and see if you can figure it out.

   But regard­less, I’m not afraid of Josh being mad at me and coming to beat me up. Why not?

   Because:

   a) Josh is actu­ally a really nice, really smart guy. Yes, he made a mis­take by taking steroids, but he’s not some crazed, vio­lent goon or any­thing, he’s a guy who made a mis­take. And

   b) he’s doing all of this to call atten­tion to him­self to increase the chances that the UFC will sign him for a title shot and to rein­tro­duce him­self to Amer­i­can fans. The UFC has grown a lot since he headed to Japan, and only the diehard fans that seek out Pride and K-1 know who he is.

   You see, Josh spent some time as a “professional wrestler” in Japan. He’s just trying to be a heel, and he knows what he’s doing. I’m actu­ally play­ing into his hand by call­ing atten­tion to his actions, but then again I really do want to see him back in the UFC now that almost all of the best heavy­weights are there.

   — Jemaleddin August 29th, 2007 at 5:54 am #