Former UFC heavyweight Brendan Schaub has found himself in hot water after making dubious claims about concealing an injury before a match, despite photographic evidence contradicting his story.
During an episode of his podcast discussing athletic commissions, Schaub attempted to portray pre-bout medical examinations as mere formality, claiming contenders can easily hide injuries from officials.
“Michael Bisping passed commission with one eye and they thought he could see 2020,” Schaub stated. He then launched into a personal anecdote that has raised eyebrows across the combat sports community.
“When I fought Andre Arlovski, two days before I get on the f**king flight to fight him in Vancouver, this m**on that I’m training with headbutts me and causes nine stitches in my left eye. Nine stitches. Horrible gash in my eye. Headbutt me when we were wrestling,” Schaub claimed.
He continued: “Two days before the fight. I went to my wife, my girlfriend at the time, my wife now, Joy. I went, ‘Do you have some makeup?’ We grabbed super glue. I super glued my f**king eye and then put makeup. It was a horrendous job. It looked clearly I had a huge cut over my left eye. Huge cut. Commissioner was like, ‘You good?’ I’m like, ‘Yeah, I’m good.’ Okay.”
Schaub concluded his point by calling commission inspections “an IQ test” and claiming “It’s so easy. So easy.”
However, there is one significant problem with this story. Video footage from the Arlovski face-off shows Schaub looking completely unmarked, with no visible cut, makeup application, or evidence of injury whatsoever. His face appears spotless in the official pre-bout footage.
The claims become even more questionable when Schaub suggested wearing a baseball cap helped conceal the alleged injury during medical inspections, despite clear face-off images showing no such wound existed.
This is not the first time Schaub has been caught embellishing stories from his combat career. The former heavyweight has developed a reputation for recounting events that do not align with documented evidence or witness accounts.
