Boston sports venues have long held reputations for hostility toward visitors. But this is on another level.
UFC light heavyweight Volkan Oezdemir, who lost to champ Daniel Cormier January 20 at Boston's TD Garden, recently alleged the arena's wrestling mats gave him multiple staph infections.
“I train [at TD Garden] before the fights and I guess the mats are dirty,” the Swiss fighter recently said on The MMA Hour broadcast, per Dave Doyle of MMA Fighting. “I don’t know how many times they clean it, so, yeah, I got a staph infection from the fights in three different parts of my body, and that’s not fun, yeah.