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Six months is not a standard layoff when you're healthy and the UFC wants to book you. This goes especially when you were suppose to get a title shot. Keep in mind, Means was suppose to fight in Pittsburgh. So both lost payoffs and have to spend months off. BTW Tim Means still hasn't officially gotten an official punishment yet. Based on his Twitter, he is still going through the adjudication process. He is still up for a 2 year ban. Plus, who said USADA or the UFC had to treat every situation as a one sided totalitarian judgment? It's asinine to believe that USADA has to be like the NAC in the past and just throw the book at everyone because that's what is expected. If they won't flexible when it came to things like this, the fighters would be in trouble everytime there was something that was in the grey area. There are things called precedents, you know. So if fighters are failing for something that isn't actually listed on what they take and fully cooperate with USADA, it would be dumb for people to believe they wouldn't try to be fair. That's what people were and still are asking of Nevada. In addition, when you're eight months (only 4 months where drug testing was really ramped up) into a program, they're going to have to allow people to educate themselves and allow situations that have been happening to let people know what is right and wrong. At the same time, they can look at what happened to Machida (who might as well have taken something that said anabolic agent in all caps) and Mirko, and say that's definitely not acceptable. So taking all that into account, believing that what is a slippery slope in one situation is the exact same in another is absolutely ridiculous.

Bingo.

The "if" was more for the former than the latter of course. A big part of "card subject to change" now is the venue. It depends heavily on what's available at that time and what scale of event they can do. If they feel do a show at Yankee Stadium, then they will do one. UFC 198 came together because the UFC felt they could create a card that would revitalize that market. However, if they feel a card is more suitable for an arena in NYC or upstate NY, then that's what they will do. In addition, they always feel more confident doing Vegas because it's their home market, they can make maximum profit, and it's easier in terms of logistics. I think what helps out NYC in this case is it's more tourist friendly (especially for the international contingent the UFC draws) than a lot of other places they could possibly do a big stadium show. That makes it much easier to build a card than feel like you're forced to stack an event. It would make more sense to see a card at Yankee Stadium that looks like 198 than a 189 or 194. They can do well there without having to allocate every single resource.

Another UFC 199 fight: Bate Estaca moving down to 115 to fight Jessica Penne.

Ryan Gerbosi ‏@RyanGerbosi 3h3 hours ago Manhattan, NY While Lorenzo Fertitta announced show at MSG today, he told me #UFC is in talks with other venues, including Yankee Stadium for next summer. If they end up doing a show at Yankee Stadium and do over 20,272 (the attendance of Cotto vs. Yuri Foreman), Bob Arum might kill himself.

Dan Henderson will face Hector Lombard at UFC 199.

His best case scenario right now IMO is to hope that, unlike CroCop, the admission allows him to plead down to maybe 9 months to a year.

Sterling rocking the Dookie chain is the best. Anyway, the UFC is officially holding a show at MSG on 11/12.

How has it worked? Romero still got suspended for six months, admitted his guilt, and was going to receive the two year ban if it weren't for them thoroughly testing the supplement he was using. 7 keto DEHA is a whole different story. Yoel tested for something that wasn't on the label. Machida took something that was in the fucking product name. Machida is getting 2 years.

Clay Guida vs. Brian Ortega has been added to UFC 199.

Governor Cuomo will sign the MMA bill tomorrow at 10:30 a.m. EST at MSG. UFC execs will be there. The bill take effect on the 1st day of the first month after the 120 days following the governor signing the bill. So a professional MMA show can happen as soon as September 1, 2016. New York State has four months and some change to get their shit together.

Sounds like Mir is changing his tune a bit. According to Ariel Helwani, Mir's B sample will be tested but he will fight the suspension if need be as he didn't "knowingly" break any rules. IMO hard to imagine this doesn't end up in a 2 year suspension. Malki Kawa might be going to the well one too many times.

The Machida-Hendo rematch is off due to this. Machida admitted to taking a banned substance while taking a drug test. If you want to talk about it, you can discuss it in that thread since neither fighter is a part of the show anymore. Torres-Namajunas II is the new co-main. Swanson-Dias on the main card now.

Guessing this will count as a fail whether or not Machida passes that test.

You have to take into account low level vs. high level. Yeah, you're gonna need someone like Big John McCarthy to ref Lawler/MacDonald II because these are two fighters who know how to dish out damage in large quantities. As a result, that stoppage was the result of something entirely different than what you see on the regional levels. I remember when Jordan Breen was talking about the kickboxer guy from Roufusport who died not too long ago. I thought he made an honest and sincere point. Everyone was quick to assign blame to Scott Cushman (his trainer), the referee, the organization that put on that kickboxing match, the venue for not being friendly to injured fighters, and the people who provided medical care after the fact. However, when you look at the footage, it just looks like a green kickboxer with very poor technique which is the norm for amateur and regional fights. It's easy to go and break down footage of bad footwork and sluggish movement after someone is critically or fatally injured. However, on the regional levels, how many people or officials are looking for tell-tale signs of someone who is badly in need of help? Yeah, in Nevada, you would expect people to be professionals and know what to do because everyone who is anyone in combat sports goes through the state of Nevada. How many folks other than a Herb Dean, who manages to be somewhere different and exotic every Friday and Saturday, is going to the middle of Ireland, southeast Brazil, or Scandinavia? Even then, they can't ref every fight. That's what the local yokels are for. People like John Sharp and Eduardo Herdy who everyone despises when they do UFC shows are doing these type of shows on a regular basis.

They should charge her with first degree murder because she is straight up slaughtering these scenes. Vince and Peter Gould are setting us up by making Kim the most likeable character on the show. When Chuck goes into the bit about the Magna Carta, my heart is saying "Kim, please stand by Jimmy" but my brain is shouting, "NO KIM! DO THE RIGHT THING...SAVE YOUR CAREER!" Seriously, this was the most bittersweet moment I had watching Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. It was alright when they were pulling short cons on unsuspecting marks at restaurants and hotels. "Nailed" was her Skyler White moment. Now, she can't ever return.

Not surprisingly, this fight bombed on PPV. According to Dan Rafael, Arum said this PPV might do between 400k-500k and/or no higher than a half a million. It find it very funny that Jim Lampley said that the UFC can never do a mega event like Mayweather-Pacquiao. The thing is that when the action under delivers (even though most people in the know were rightfully picking Floyd to win), you supremely compromise the prospects of future bouts. For the most part, UFC either hits the mark enough in terms of what people paid to see to achieve repeat business or over delivers on big shows. Oscar-Floyd at least had the fact that it created a giant superstar out of it, and Oscar would give the same rub to Pacquiao the next year. May 2nd of last year accomplished absolutely nothing other than a rematch that probably won't happen. No new stars were created (in the main event or the undercard). It's going to take awhile for boxing on PPV to recover stateside.

Another potential USADA violation: Viscardi Andrade This should shed a bit of light on the answer to the question posed in the UFC Zagreb event thread. Basically mirrors my answer. Andrade's sample was collected on 3/7 and sent to a WADA accredited lab in Rio de Janeiro. He fought on March 19 (or March 20 depending your timezone) in Brisbane. He was notified of his failure on April 12. So basically, whether you're living in the US or not, someone is going to be there to administer tests.

Favreau is saying that they haven't really talked about a sequel yet, and that people are jumping the gun. However, he would be interested in returning. So if that's the case, 2019 would be more realistic than 2018.

Here is a stellar interview Paul Gift did with former FTC commissioner Joshua Wright. It goes into the 2011 & 2015 FTC Investigations of the UFC, common misconceptions about how they're opened, why they were ultimately closed, differences between the FTC investigations and the current antitrust lawsuit, and why the plaintiffs in the lawsuit are going to have a very tough, uphill battle trying to prove their arguments. Definitely recommended.

Probably not. Ike Epstein said although he's cleared, the UFC reserves their right to re-evaluate the matter pending any new info. So it's best just to let this whole thing disappear.

According to Kevin Iole, BJ Penn (who was recently cleared of the allegiations made by a former BJPENN.con writer) is fighting Dennis Siver at UFC 199.