Elsalvajeloco Posted April 13, 2016 Author Share Posted April 13, 2016 Guessing this will count as a fail whether or not Machida passes that test. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted April 13, 2016 Author Share Posted April 13, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 Every fighter like Machida and Mir are going to use the ignorance excuse because it works. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted April 14, 2016 Author Share Posted April 14, 2016 1 hour ago, TheVileOne said: Every fighter like Machida and Mir are going to use the ignorance excuse because it works. 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WholeFnMachine Posted April 14, 2016 Share Posted April 14, 2016 7 hours ago, Elsalvajeloco said: 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. That will put him at 39 or 40, cannot have much left in the tank at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted April 14, 2016 Author Share Posted April 14, 2016 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted April 15, 2016 Share Posted April 15, 2016 17 hours ago, Elsalvajeloco said: 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. Six months is nothing for an MMA fighter, that's basically a standard layoff between fights. Not to mention, USADA agreed to a settlement with him and gave him a reduced punishment instead of the standard one.  Also for Tim Means. We'll see if Machida actually ends up getting the full two years.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted April 15, 2016 Author Share Posted April 15, 2016 5 hours ago, TheVileOne said: Six months is nothing for an MMA fighter, that's basically a standard layoff between fights. Not to mention, USADA agreed to a settlement with him and gave him a reduced punishment instead of the standard one.  Also for Tim Means. We'll see if Machida actually ends up getting the full two years.  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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted April 16, 2016 Author Share Posted April 16, 2016 Islam Makhachev failed for Meldonium, which a lot of Russian athletes have popped for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted April 16, 2016 Author Share Posted April 16, 2016 Makhachev's team is saying he had a heart procedure 13 months, and that's why he had Meldonium in his system. They plan on working with USADA and providing all necessary paperwork to solve this ASAP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted April 25, 2016 Author Share Posted April 25, 2016 Update to the fight kits that will debut during International Fight Week: There will be new ones later this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 Injection of color, but still 100% lacking in creativity. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted April 25, 2016 Author Share Posted April 25, 2016 Sports Business Journal article on the Reebok apparel deal with comments from John Fosco along with Malki Kawa and Lorenzo Fertitta among others. Fosco going hard in the paint to show his allegiance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted April 25, 2016 Share Posted April 25, 2016 The 'Black' fight kit has less black on it than any of the other colours. Smooth move, Reebok. Are the new outfits going to be DLC in the UFC2 videogame, or do they want it to look out of date after less than a year? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted April 25, 2016 Author Share Posted April 25, 2016 I would assume the two are unrelated considering that people probably aren't playing the game to look at the uniforms. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AxB Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 What they really need is Octagon girl DLC. Britney and Arianny are the only ones in the game... but I'm sure some people would pay a dollar or two to get Carly or Jamilette or one of the Brazilian ones who's names I've forgotten. The Andrade not-Sisters. Besides which, Britney and Arianny are the main event octagon girls. It makes more sense for career mode if you start on shows with just Vanessa and Chrissy, and then when you make it onto a card with Arianny at cageside you know you're a big star now. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twiztor Posted April 26, 2016 Share Posted April 26, 2016 if that means that each fighter/corner can choose what color they wear during the fight and etc., then it is a step in the right direction. i still find the shirts ugly as fuck and would never wear one. it seems to present the UFC as the biggest deal, with it emblazened across the front, and the fighter is secondary (or worse) with the name vertical across the back. not visually appealing, if you ask me. and have they solved the nickname issue yet? a "Quinton Jackson" shirt would be OK, but "Rampage Jackson" is obviously more interesting and more likely to be worn. i think Cub Swanson was one of the biggest casualties of the 'no nickname' rule. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted May 13, 2016 Author Share Posted May 13, 2016 Carlos Diego Ferreira failed an out of competition USADA drug test and is out of his 5/29 fight with Abel Trujillo. Also, no surprise, Mir's B sample also came back positive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted May 15, 2016 Share Posted May 15, 2016 On 5/13/2016 at 9:51 AM, Elsalvajeloco said: Carlos Diego Ferreira failed an out of competition USADA drug test and is out of his 5/29 fight with Abel Trujillo. Also, no surprise, Mir's B sample also came back positive. That must have been some messed up kangaroo meat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Natural Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 At time posted: 64,477 views. 256 thumbs up and 4,636 thumbs down. I'm with the majority. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jiji Posted May 18, 2016 Share Posted May 18, 2016 Alternate take of Reebok's UFC commercial: Â 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted May 24, 2016 Author Share Posted May 24, 2016 BJ Penn has been pulled from UFC 199 for using an IV, which of course violates the USADA policy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVileOne Posted May 24, 2016 Share Posted May 24, 2016 Penn fighting at featherweight again was stupidity. Â But Penn isn't the sharpest knife in the drawer anyway and should've stayed retired. Â Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsalvajeloco Posted May 26, 2016 Author Share Posted May 26, 2016 Ruh-roh If there is any validity in some of that (the stuff with McGann is probably truthful since Light is a longtime homie of Rampage), this could cause some heads to roll. The forging of medicals is a can of worms they don't want to be opened especially in light of the Dada 5000 fiasco. Also, that could pretty much get Bellator banned everywhere except for like a Denny's parking lot in Montana.  Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted May 26, 2016 Share Posted May 26, 2016 Did you post the right link? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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