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If you haven’t been living in a cave for the last 10 years you’ll know that America and its allies have been at war in Afghanistan. Not with Afghanistan, but in Afghanistan.

This is not a political article, nor do I hold any views that support either side in this conflict. I myself am a pacifist and think it’s a great shame for innocent people to die for either side. However, this is more of an inquisitive article and maybe readers can provide some answers.

First I will start with Siyar. This guy is an exciting middleweight. He’s riding a six fight win streak with four of those wins coming by way of first round knockout. These wins aren’t against cans either. Robert Jocz was on a ten fight win-streak before his fight with Siyar, while John Alessio was on a six fight win streak. If anything this should make promoters in the major MMA promotions at least curious. He’s tough, he’s exciting; he’s ranked #12 in the world according to Fight! Magazine, and he knocks people out in the first round.

In April 2010 it was announced that he was signed by Strikeforce in what would have been an excellent addition to their lacklustre middleweight division. However, for some reason Strikeforce treated Siyar very badly and kept him sidelined, almost ruining his year. As you can imagine this caused Siyar to be very upset.

At the same time Abdul Mohamed who is arguably the best lightweight in the UK and is the last official British Lightweight Champion has never received any offers from any major US based promotions. It was once reported that he was offered a deal to sign with the UFC following the collapse of Cage Rage. However, I have personally spoken with Abdul and he has denied receiving such offers. Instead he has informed me that he has applied to the Ultimate Fighter on several occasions, and applied to join the UFC through their online recruitment campaign. In return he has not even received as much as a rejection from the promotion.

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