Gray Maynard's Camp Files Commission Complaint About Clay Guida's Hair

[Kickass32]

Gray Maynard's Camp Files Commission Complaint About Clay Guida's Hair

by Tim Burke on Jun 16, 2012 7:00 PM

It appears that Clay Guida's hair has become the focus of some pre-fight posturing in the lead-up to his main event bout with Gray Maynard at UFC on FX 4 next Friday. Guida's hair is his trademark, but Maynard's camp apparently filed a complaint to the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board and Guida has elected to braid back his hair for the fight.

MMA Junkie picked up comments from Guida's manager John Fosco, and NJSACB chief Nick Lembo:

"Clay chose to avoid any distractions and simply complied," Fosco told MMA Junkie. "Clay will be braiding his hair back. Clay is not focused on this and has one objective: winning. Nothing will distract him from his goal."

"He doesn't want to do it, and I don't believe he's 100 percent happy about it, but he's being very understanding and very cooperative about it and he agreed to it," Lembo told MMA Junkie. "Otherwise, if he said, 'No, I'm not going to do that,' we'd have to have a hearing on it and let both sides present their case and have a commissioner's ruling on the issue."

The complaint is based on a statement in the unified rules of MMA, and allows the commission to rule on "whether head or facial hair presents any hazard to the safety of the unarmed combatant or his opponent or will interfere with the supervision and conduct of the contest or exhibition." As stated above, Guida chose to just comply instead of going in front of the commission. The complaint was filed approximately a month ago, before the commission even considered anything to do with Guida's hair.

The weirdest part of the whole thing is that Gray Maynard himself apparently knew nothing about it:

Maynard, who contacted MMA Junkie following the publication of this report, said he was not aware of his camp's request.

"I never filed a complaint," Maynard said. "This was the first I've ever heard about it."

This is definitely a strange situation.

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[jbleedin]

I really hope he didn't file that complaint. That'd make him look like a pu$$y...

[Dirty Daley]

[Dirty Daley]

Not like he has a mop on his head or anything.

guida mophead.jpg

[Kickass32]

I actually don't blame him. It's still kinda stupid on Guida's part to have the long hair anyways.

[Leesel]

Lmfao

[jbleedin]

I actually don't blame him. It's still kinda stupid on Guida's part to have the long hair anyways.

I disagree. Nobody else that has fought him has filed a complaint. This makes Maynard look like a baby, imo. I hope Clay KO's him on Friday...

[Kickass32]

I disagree. Nobody else that has fought him has filed a complaint. This makes Maynard look like a baby, imo. I hope Clay KO's him on Friday...

It probably does make Maynard look like a baby, but I still don't blame him....it is a distraction, especially when Guida is establishing his Lay N' Pray with his head on Maynards......if he is able to take Maynard down.

I believe all fighters should either be forced to tie their hair back/braid or cut it.

[Stauffy]

I disagree. Nobody else that has fought him has filed a complaint. This makes Maynard look like a baby, imo. I hope Clay KO's him on Friday...

Didn't he say that he (Maynard) was unaware of the complaint? That would mean that it's his camp that has the problem with it, not him.

[BluenoseGreig]

Gray 'claims' he is unaware of the complaint. I really don't see how he could be unaware if his camp has filed a complaint, just trying not to look like a baby. Although that said, I agree with Kick that fighters should have their hair tied back.