
Originally Posted by
rdouglas
yeah they knew he dropped dirty a month before the fight started. Dana said the reason the fight went on was because cocaine is not a performance enhancer and that jones was healthy to fight. Then he contradicted himself saying that when you find out something like this about a person, you worry about the person first, and their concern now was getting him healthy. Either way his victory over cormier is still legit imo. Not the best example to set for the kids but he is still young himself and it is a real thing that happens to people, even champions. The UFC doesn't care about they're fighters anyway, its all about the money. i'm sure this story will end up selling a lot of tickets for them.
Yeah this is really fukt. But what's the alternative for Dana? Come out 2 weeks before this huge fight that is trying to recover from the really bad 2014 (injury problems) and say "well Jon's T/E ratios are all fucked, plus he's blowin' lines, so we're going to cancel the first fight of 2015 and throw his belt up like a bouquet at a wedding?
It is what it is, it's the best we got... problems of PED use, blood doping, all kinds of crazy shit we don't even know about... is what it is.... Without the extra T, would Jon not have dominated DC? I dunno, tell me what DC's exact T/E levels were over the last 6 months... and Jon's too...
I don't like it, no one does, but blaming Dana to me seems like just trying to find a target for the frustration. I don't personally have any real suggestions for solutions to any of this. But Dana letting the UFC be the sacrificial lamb for the massive "come to jesus" that needs to happen in all of professional sports with respect to PED seems is something I dont want to see... let the NFL deal with the problems of professional athletes and what they put into their bodies.
MMA as a mainstream product is good for martial arts, and the UFC has done more to advance martial arts than any other organization in the history of unarmed human combat... at least as far as I can tell. Fuck it, Jon was messin with his T, and doin some coke, I'm over it... what's next, when does that Irish dude fight again?