{"id":396737,"date":"2026-01-08T19:33:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:33:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/396737\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T19:33:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T19:33:11","slug":"sonnen-lying-justin-gaethje-does-not-have-an-ingrown-hair-ufc-324","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/396737\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonnen: \u2018Lying\u2019 Justin Gaethje does not have an ingrown hair | UFC 324"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">That said, the topic is not interesting to Sonnen and does not matter.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cSomewhere, the media picked up on this,\u201d Sonnen said on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=54elaf4J1I4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">YouTube<\/a>. \u201cNow, Justin Gaethje countered it to let you know that he doesn\u2019t have staph, it was an in ingrown hair. I\u2019m not a doctor. I see staph all the time. I\u2019ve got staph on my own arm right now, but looking at a picture and trying to tell what Justin Gaethje has, I don\u2019t know what he has. He does not have an ingrown hair. That I do know. So he is lying about something, but is that interesting? Does that matter? Not to me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It could be interesting and matter to the doctors representing Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cFirst off, will the fight go on?\u201d Sonnen asked. \u201cIs that a question we\u2019re asking? I\u2019m rather confident that it will. A general staph infection like a wrestler or grappler would get, it takes three days to solve something like this. Secondly, would it affect the fight because you\u2019re talking about a medication taken? This is how I\u2019m interpreting the question. No, I don\u2019t think so. I also don\u2019t know what it is that Justin has on his neck. I know it is not an ingrown hair.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThat\u2019s my only concern is that he came out \u2014 the cover-up is always worse than the crime. So if he thinks he has an ingrown hair \u2026 let\u2019s just say for example, I can tell you that\u2019s not an ingrown hair. But if he genuinely thinks that, that\u2019s not just a cover story, then it could be staph, which means it could spread. And when it\u2019s this visible, it could be an issue. But I think that we\u2019re talking about nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">\u201cSo would it affect the odds of the Justin Gaethje fight? No,\u201d Sonnen said. \u201cThis isn\u2019t my opinion. This came out yesterday, DraftKings, the line has not budged. It didn\u2019t budge anymore than when it got revealed that \u2018Paddy the Baddy\u2019 had lost a grappling match over the weekend. Could it turn into a thing? I would be very confident in telling you \u2018no\u2019 if I was confident that Gaethje doesn\u2019t truly think that that\u2019s an ingrown hair.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"That said, the topic is not interesting to Sonnen and does not matter. \u201cSomewhere, the media picked up&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[49,48,641,33601,638,82,139445,702,4454],"class_list":["post-396737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-fighting","tag-latest-ufc-mma-news","tag-mma","tag-sports","tag-ufc-on-paramount","tag-ufc-news","tag-upcoming-ufc-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=396737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}