Dana White Reveals Plans For UFC Drug Testing Program

[No More Sorrow]

Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) President Dana White has had it up to here (my fingers are stretching to the sky) with the steroid scofflaws fouling up his beloved mixed martial arts (MMA).


And he's looking long and hard at Alistair Overeem.


"Demolition Man" screwed up White's upcoming UFC 146 main event after he destroyed the dial on the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC) testosterone meter, registering an astounding T/E ratio of 14:1, which he unsuccessfully blamed on a laced anti-inflammatory injectable cocktail that he used to treat an injured rib.


NSAC wasn't having it, denying Overeem a license to fight in "Sin City" until early 2013, at which time the horse meat-eating mammoth will be eligible to once again entertain the application process. The entire fiasco, unsurprisingly, didn't sit very well with White, who revealed shortly after the NSAC ruling that Overeem "lied to his face" about his use of performance-enhancing drugs (PEDs).


White now plans to escalate the situation, telling the Los Angeles Times that he and his mixed martial arts promotion are going to take matters into their own hands to ensure an extra layer of protection.


Check it out:


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"The steroid, [performance-enhancing drug] thing affects the whole sport. The key is to make sure these guys never get on it, because once they do, they change. The problem with Overeem is that I want to sit in a room with him man to man and believe him. He told me before he ever fought for us, 'Don't worry, I'm the most tested athlete in sports.' But I think we have about 42 fights a year ... you have a guy or two popping [positive tests] here and there, that's a pretty good ratio.... Yes, we're going to do our own testing, order these guys into [a lab]; we're sorting it out now. You have to do this to save the sport. You can't have these guys fighting on this stuff."

The negative thing is that if they begin to do lots of random tests, a lot of fights are going to be cancelled. So hopefully fighters will become wise to this after time.

 

[Troy]

MMA is going to be like cycling, they will bring in the strictest testing possible but people will still slip through the cracks and they will still try to cheat to win. It would be good for UFC to start testing fighters more frequently themselves but unfortunately I don't think they will ever be able to make the sport completely clean

 

[Slim]

They should start testing them like they do in WWE. Extremely hard to cheat a test when you have the doc right there while you pissing so you can't cheat the system with fake piss.

But yeah there needs to be a way to make the testing stricter but who knows what that'll do to future cards cause who knows how many will wind up testing pos for it.