So he forfeit's his over-the-table payday? Wonder if they knew this was a possibility and went ahead regardless. I'm a white boy and I'm juiced, deal with it. Pretty much the end of his MMA career. Some Kimbo Slice parallels, here. The WWE have to suspend him, too. Looks like he'll miss Summerslam.
http://www.ufc.com/news/UFC-Statement-on-Brock-Lesnar-071516 "The UFC organization was notified today that the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) has informed Brock Lesnar of a potential Anti-Doping Policy violation stemming from an out-of-competition sample collection on June 28, 2016. USADA received the testing results from the June 28, 2016 sample collection from the WADA-accredited UCLA Olympic Analytical Laboratory on the evening of July 14, 2016. "USADA, the independent administrator of the UFC Anti-Doping Policy, will handle the results management and appropriate adjudication of this case. It is important to note that, under the UFC Anti-Doping Policy, there is a full fair legal review process that is afforded to all athletes before any sanctions are imposed. The Nevada State Athletic Commission also retains jurisdiction over this matter as the sample collection was performed in close proximity to Lesnar’s bout at UFC 200 in Las Vegas. "Consistent with all previous potential anti-doping violations, additional information will be provided at the appropriate time as the process moves forward."
http://www.mmafighting.com/2016/7/7...nes-unprofessional-for-being-flagged-by-usada "It's unfortunate for DC, I guess," Lesnar said. "I feel a little bad for DC. Guys go hard, they go through training camps and put lots of time in and that's where DC really gets the short end of the stick. It's really unprofessional of anybody of this caliber when something like that happens." Lesnar's bout with Mark Hunt will now be the main event of UFC 200. The women's bantamweight title fight between champion Miesha Tate and challenger Amanda Nunesis the new co-main event. Cormier is currently in limbo. He stands to lose millions of dollars if he doesn't fight and the UFC is still looking for a very short-notice opponent for him. UFC president Dana White told Colin Cowherd on Thursday that he would still fight. Lesnar, 38, goes back a long time with Cormier. Both are former standout NCAA wrestlers. The WWE star was definitely bummed for his friend Thursday. But, like he was for UFC 100, Lesnar is now the main event for UFC 200. "It's unfortunate," Lesnar said of Jones. "It's unprofessional. That's just what it is. What else can I say? Merry Christmas to Brock Lesnar."
http://thestarphoenix.com/sports/mma/brock-lesnar-notified-of-potential-drug-test-failure-at-ufc-200 “We will get to the bottom of this,” Lesnar said in a statement provided Friday to The Associated Press. The Associated Press also obtained copies of three letters from USADA to Lesnar, informing the fighter that he had passed tests on three samples submitted over a nine-day period in mid-June, mere days before the sample with the potential violation was collected.
Is it fair that only Lesnar will suffer the consequences? If the UFC had any inkling that Lesnar was dirty, despite the tests he passed, and used him for UFC 200 to pump up the buys, that seems unethical.
FOX Sports posted this article. The UFC apparently had them remove it. Strange bedfellows. I'm copying the whole thing since the article was removed. UFC's dangerous drug-testing inconsistency and hypocrisy demand answers Brock Lesnar failed a drug test on June 28 but USADA and the UFC still allowed him to fight, and hurt Mark Hunt on July 9. Elias Cepeda says that this type of situation is becoming a dangerous pattern. Brock Lesnar is just the latest UFC fighter to fail a pre-fight drug test and still be allowed to compete. Jon Kopaloff / Getty Images North America By Elias Cepeda @EliasCepedaJul 15, 2016 at 9:45p ET "Everybody is on steroids," Nate Diaz is fond of saying, in reference to his UFC athlete peers. The only real correction worth making of Nate, there, is that the gamut of banned performance-enhancing drugs used by a great deal of fighters is a lot more diverse than simply anabolic steroids. There are pain-killers, and blood-doping, and hormone therapies, and many other banned treatments and drugs used by MMA athletes to meet our demands of three-a-day training camps that go on for months and five, five-minute round fights. Most won't volunteer the opinion as willingly as the outspoken Stockton soldier, but any honest person in the know, understands and will not deny that use of banned performance-enhancing drugs in the fight game is the norm, not the exception. This is not, however, a story about athletes using banned drugs. Have whatever opinion you want on them using them, but it is long past time that we stop feigning surprise when someone is caught. This is a column on regulators not doing a good job of effectively keeping doping fighters outside of the UFC's Octagon. It was announced Friday that former UFC champion Brock Lesnar failed a drug test administered by the UFC-hired USADA company on June 28. Here's the rub – Despite allegedly failing that drug test on June 28, Lesnar was still allowed to fight, and badly beat up, Mark Hunt on July 9, at UFC 200. This isn't the first time that a UFC athlete has been tested by regulators, failed a test, and still allowed to walk to the cage and hit an opponent in official competition, of course. Lightweight Gleison Tibau flunked a pre-fight USADA drug test but was still allowed to fight and choke Abel Trujillo last November. Then, he failed another drug test after their fight. In 2015, then UFC light heavyweight champion Jon Jones was drug-tested by the Nevada State Athletic Commission during his training camp to face Daniel Cormier. Jones tested positive for cocaine, but the NSAC did not notify him, choosing instead to simply tell the UFC that their star fighter was using potentially lethal drugs during the most important training camp of his life, and letting them decide whether or not to allow "Bones" to continue camp and then fight. Brock Lesnar punches Mark Hunt during UFC 200, more than a week after he failed a drug test administered by USADA. Rey Del Rio Given the opportunity to regulate itself, the UFC didn't tell Jones or Cormier, or the public, and allowed the fight to go on. Only after Jones fought Cormier and formal requests by media members including this reporter were made to the state agency, was the positive cocaine result revealed. As public agencies, athletic commissions like Nevada's are required to give that public drug-testing information when asked in-writing. USADA is not a public agency accountable to the public, however, and is simply paid by clients like the UFC. On paper, the clear conflict of interest of USADA testing the UFC as the UFC pays its fees made the relationship not credible from the start. In practice, we've already found out what it means – that the UFC's business interests take precedent over USADA testing protocol. When the UFC announced in June that Brock Lesnar would make his comeback in July after nearly five years away from competition, it shortly thereafter also announced that he hadn't been drug-tested in accordance to USADA rules for athletes coming out of retirement. USADA rules say that such athletes need to undergo four months of drug testing and pass them all before being able to return to competition. Lesnar was granted an exemption from the requirement. No reasonable justification was given. None was needed. Brock is big business and the UFC wanted that business. The deal came together when it came together, and anti-doping rules could not stand in the way of the deal. All of the sudden, a not credible arrangement between the UFC and USADA was made outright corrupt. Lesnar's UFC 200 opponent Mark Hunt spoke openly that he believed Lesnar – who was coming from the drug-plagued world of pro-wrestling, having worked in a WWE match as recently as April – was doping, and lamented the unfairness of the UFC's biggest star not having to follow the rules his opponents do. On fight night, the gigantic Lesnar showed up as large as ever, and quite possibly leaner than ever before, even as he neared 40. In fact, his hands actually somehow appeared to grow larger than they were in his first UFC stint, requiring larger gloves. Then, Lesnar hurt Hunt, badly. The game but undersized "Super Samoan" was nearly finished on several occasions during his UFC main card bout against Lesnar as he absorbed blow after thudding blow from Lesnar's growing paws. A battered and bruised Mark Hunt after UFC 200. Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC After the post-event press conference, Hunt shuffled right past me, appearing still dazed, and certainly with a bruised, cut and swollen face and head. He had taken heaps of blows from an improperly enhanced Lesnar. Before their fight, Lesnar's love triangle with the UFC and USADA smelled bad. Now, we know that Lesnar actually failed a USADA test more than a week prior to the fight. So, why did USADA and the UFC allow the fight to go on? Why was the test result only announced nearly a week after Hunt absorbed dozens of concussive blows to the head? USADA and the UFC need to answer these types of questions much better than they have up to this point for this and other similar instances. There is no point to testing athletes for banned substances if failed tests don't mean a doping athlete won't be stopped from competing. In this case, neither the promoter nor supposed regulators stood in the way of a juiced-up Brock Lesnar from beating up Mark Hunt, even though they apparently had all the information they needed to stop it from happening. Yes, that is bad business for all powers that be involved as they could find themselves exposed, legally after this type of negligence. More than that, however, it is just plain wrong.
