Witch Doctor Cures Dana White
Steve Friends, the guy referred to as the Witch Doctor on last night’s episode of the Ultimate Fighter, is not an actually doctor but a holistic therapist. It sounds like quackery, but the Witch Doctor has may top MMA fighters as clients as well as UFC president Dana White. In an article from last year White is quoted signing his praises.
“He [Friends] starts working on my knee — and I swear to God to you guys I thought my knee was broken, it was that bad — and within 15 minutes he had me jump off that table and my knee felt like I had never hurt it before. Everything I’ve ever had wrong with me, this guy has fixed.”
The Witch Doctor has worked with big name fighters such as Randy Couture, Diego Sanchez, Karo Parisyan, Sean Sherk, Matt Hughes, GSP, along with most of the TUF contestants.
He is so popular that Canadian Georges St. Pierre and Matt Hughes both used his services before they fought each other for the welterweight title in Sacramento last month. Friend gave them each two treatments a day for two days and saw each of them before the bout. St. Pierre won, by second-round TKO. “Now that was a tough one. … My buddy got knocked out and my other buddy knocked him out,” Friend said.
And how does he work his magic? The Witch Doctor says,
“I use my hands, it’s all touching, but it’s precise things I do. A lot of times I work on people where they can be more efficient in what they do, not just to recover from pain. Most of the treatments that I give now are not for relief of pain. It’s when I relieve the pain, then they want me because they feel so much better, they want me to work on them before they go in and fight. Many are sceptical, for a time. The thing is if you help people, they all of a sudden start believing in what you do. All you’ve got to do is help them. And the work I do is instantaneous. If you have a problem, you know within 20 minutes if I’m helping you.”
An good example of his work is the Sean Sherk case. Sherk called him the day of his Kenny Florian lightweight title fight last October complaining of a shoulder problem. After seeing him, Friend tells Sherk “you’ve got a torn rotator cuff, there’s no doubt about it.” And how did he know that? Freind says, “I ran the energy up through it and it started to burn.”
Sounds simple enough to me. My back is pretty jacked up these days, I sure wish the Witch Doctor did house calls.
Source: Slam Sports
