Originally Posted by KC native:
He will retire now.
He was most likely retiring anyways. He wanted to retire after the 1st Weidman fight (listen to his speech after getting KO'ed), but Dana White was adamant about his contract and a rematch. He should have retired after the leg break, but seemed to want to get that one last win on his legacy. Looks like that backfired substantially. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bufkin:
He was most likely retiring anyways. He wanted to retire after the 1st Weidman fight (listen to his speech after getting KO'ed), but Dana White was adamant about his contract and a rematch. He should have retired after the leg break, but seemed to want to get that one last win on his legacy. Looks like that backfired substantially.
I said he was probably done right after the fight. His reaction post-fight was all you needed to see. [Reply]
Originally Posted by Bufkin:
Looks like that backfired substantially.
Well, it didn't backfire for his wallet. The NSAC is meeting right now and is about to give temporary suspensions to Diaz, Silva, and Lombard pending a full disciplinary hearing, probably in March or April. [Reply]
Oh, and before anyone asks about Jon Jones, MJ and cocaine are only illegal in an in-competition test. They are not banned during out of competition testing (and so they shouldn't even test for them in OOC tests) Jon Jones was busted in an OOC test, Diaz was positive in an in-competition test. Whether it makes sense to you or not, those are the rules. [Reply]
Originally Posted by alnorth:
Dana White and Lorenzo Fertitta are going to have a press conference tomorrow (noon central) to discuss PED's and what the UFC is going to do.
For those who don't know, the Fertitta brothers own almost all of the UFC, Dana White only has 10% of the shares.
During the UFC fight night press conference, Dana was asked what he'll talk about in the press conference scheduled tomorrow. He said quote "bad shit", and "we're not going to be talking about fun things" [Reply]
Current: Most fighters are tested day of the fight, but not all. The UFC always wanted all fighters to get an in-competition test and has offered to help pay for it in the past, but if a state or international body didn't want to bother with in-competition testing, then sometimes in some cards there were no tests.
Proposed: All fighters will have in-competition testing for every fight, period. If the state or international body can't afford it or doesn't want to do it, then the UFC will just pay for it.
Out of Competition Testing
Current: This just started being a thing recently. The UFC leaves it up to the state or international body, sometimes they'll do it, usually not. The UFC sometimes helps pay for this too.
Proposed: All championship fights and all main event fights will have at least one out of competition test 12-14 weeks before the fight. The UFC will help pay for it if needed.
Proposed 2: In addition to guaranteeing that all main event and championship fights have an OOC test, the UFC will also pay for some additional random OOC tests per year. All fighters on the roster are subject to being picked for the OOC test, and it'll be left completely up to the 3rd party tester to pick who and when. (more info: They will probably have a system where all fighters must keep the 3rd party informed on where they are at all times. The UFC will not even know that someone is going to be OOC tested until the test is done and the 3rd party sends them the random test result)
The reality is, the UFC can not afford to OOC test everyone. Currently they pay about $500K/year for testing, they are expecting these changes to increase the cost of testing to several million. So, they are going to ask the states to dramatically increase the penalties to somewhere around 2-4 years. They think this might be such a severe career-threatening penalty that the fighters won't want to risk getting randomly picked. [Reply]
These changes will be effective 7/1. They need time to talk to the various states and work out the contracts with the 3rd party collectors and testers.
They also announced that Rory MacDonald will fight Lawler. Since Hector failed his test, that changed their prior plan of picking the most impressive fighter out of the Hendricks and MacDonald fights. [Reply]
