"2. The excessive use of grease or any other foreign substance may not be used on the face or body of an unarmed combatant. The referees or the Commission’s representative in charge shall cause any excessive grease or foreign substance to be removed." They did, end of discussion. If anything was going on, the guy was right there and could have stopped it at any time, he did not, there is nothing to discuss.
, oh my goodness. I stand corrected. There's absolutely nothing clear about this. The vaseline was clearly dried out on the gloves when he went from neck down to tip of the shoulder and you can see the skin stretching even. He was just rubbing his muscles and not rubbing vaseline. The back? You gota be jocking me... At no point in time does BJs legs touch where they were rubbing it(right between the shoulder blades and not on TOP of the shoulder blades), it's absolutely a non-strategic place to rub vaseline. Basically, if w/e happened, happened because St. Pierre was sweaty. And believe me it doesn't take a lot of sweat for a grip to go to ****. A warm up before the fight is more than enough. Anyways, all this crap over nothing. Here me thinking they took a swipe of vaseline and started rubbing his shoulders . This whole thing is blown out of proportion. BJ Penn got his ass handed to him by a much better fighter. End of story.