You are right, I think they should help them with drinking if they have a problem with that too!
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UFC champion Jon Jones tests positive for cocaine, reportedly enters rehab
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You are right, I think they should help them with drinking if they have a problem with that too!
Coke is not a banned substance. That's why he was allowed to fight.
CrashSimonFaye
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Source?
DoktorEvil
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Coke is a schedule 2 drug though.
It's a federal crime if he was caught with the stuff by cops without a prescription.
Wait are you saying you can get a script for cocaine?
BobTheFork
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I'm expecting some comment that this means Sonnen should have won their fight, and is dripping with hypocrisy.
Vincent Alexander
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Right now I really don't care about the UFC or the implications of a fighter testing positive for coke before a big match. Maybe he does have a problem. Maybe he doesn't. Who knows. But he is a father. I wish him the best if he does have a problem, and hope he gets the help he needs.
If they didn't that UFC event would have been cancelled and they wouldn't recover from a 2nd one of those ...
Ninja Scooter
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Exactly. Plus with them fighting this lawsuit in California, giving more fighters a reason to be pissed with their contract isn't a good idea.
Ninja Scooter
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Fighters are independent contractors. He does not work for the UFC. They pay him to show up on fight night. They don't give a damn what he does on his down time because he doesn't work for them, just like they don't pay for his training camp.
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DonasaurusRex
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sounds like he shoulda been in old school UFC with no rules to speak of outside of don't kill this guy on my mat.
Because they're currently trying their hardest to prove that "If everyone's special, nobody is" really is true.
DoktorEvil
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http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Substances_Act#Schedule_II_drugs
I believe so if this is correct.
Dana White just got hard at the narratives that could make Sonnen v Jones another big PPV.
BronsonLee
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'I'M HIGH ON DUST!' - Jon Jones, 2015
if they were worried about their image they wouldn't have let him compete after the results came out a week before his fight.
You want to know why they probably REALLY do the tests? Because it's most likely required by various state athletic commissions. Dana White doesn't give a shit
yankeeforever2
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I like so many people are defending him here, if UFC needs to stop struggling they need to have a likeable champion.
BronsonLee
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I wish they'd just make Rumble vs Gus for the title and tell Jones to beat it
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Uh, not true? Most MMA fans hate Jones and want him to lose...Which means they will tune in to watch him fight. He is embracing going full heel and UFC 182 draws 750k plus. Likewise, the next big star for the UFC, Conor McGregor, spends all his time talking shit about other UFC fighters...A lot of people hate him, yet he has the most buzz out of anybody in the UFC arguably.
Assholes can draw really well--look at Floyd Mayweather Jr.
Ninja Scooter
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Yup. This explains why the biggest draw in boxing over the last 5 years is such a likable guy.
DoktorEvil
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Hahahahahahahahahahahahaha
Likable?
The biggest names in boxing and MMA are both obnoxious showmen who talk shit and people hate.
yankeeforever2
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Outside of mayweather boxing is not doing well at all, boxing is no were as popular then it used it be. UFC is in a huge funk right now and its not looking like it is getting better soon.
Well most people respect what people have done in the ring to back up there attitude, like Mayweather.
Jest Chillin
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I'd say it says more about the Athletic Commission as it's their role in combat sports to regulate and rule on the matches.
The UFC functions as a promoter. They don't make or enforce the rules. The respective Athletic Commissions do. That's why decisions don't get overturned by Dana or the Fertitta's. They literally have no say.
Not to mention that Jones' wife is also white to begin with. Lol
There are a million factors why the UFC isn't doing well and not having likeable champions isn't one of them. I don't get why you chose to focus on the lack of likeable champions, when it is pretty evident that most of the biggest draws in combat sports are egotistical, narcissistic, hypocritical assholes.
And how has Jones not backed up his attitude in the ring? He's a hypocrite, narcissist, and has a ridiculously huge ego...And he backs that up by being the most dominant champion in LHW history, and as a guy who likely will be the future GOAT.
Rafa=FedKilla
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Wonder if Reebok will stop sponsoring him? What will happen when Reebok doesn't want to sponsor a fighter do to bad PR but are forced to do their deal. Talk about politics......
Perspicacity
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I mean we all know the average MMA fan is more upset about the white girls on his junk rather than the white junk up his nose, these are the same people keeping JBL employed. no offence
Shao Kahn on the Lawn
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That's unfortunate. I'm not a fan of his but I hate to see anyone get tied up in substance abuse.
If this is indeed true, hopefully the rehab takes and he's serious about kicking the habit.
If this is indeed true, hopefully the rehab takes and he's serious about kicking the habit.
Ninja Scooter
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What does this even mean in relation to Jones?
What children are watching human cock-fighting?
we can step back further and ask who is watching? ratings are plummeting to pre zuffa ultimate era. sport is deader than Coker era strikeforce.
Agreed. This sport is filth. Keep the youth away from it.
PastorOfMuppets
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This thread is full of people who:
a) Don't know anything about MMA
b) Don't know anything about cocaine.
Try them both before you judge people!
a) Don't know anything about MMA
b) Don't know anything about cocaine.
Try them both before you judge people!
WanderingWind
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With what these dudes put their bodies through, I'd be shocked if there wasn't any of them who aren't drugged up on something.
The commission couldn't stop the fight. The UFC if they wanted could of told Jones he isn't fighting.
Phat Michael
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about time this prick gets taken down. Such an arrogant twat. From snitching on students who smoke pot to drunk driving with underaged girls. The guy can fight but he is such a clown.
Brerlappin
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It doesnt make any fucking sense that someone should get banned for weed but not coke, regardless of when they get tested. I mean even weed is technically legal in medicinal marijuana, but its banned by the UFC, so why isnt coke? Between this and giving someone without so much as an amateur fight under their belt a contract just because hes famous, this company is looking more like a dumpster fire every day
PastorOfMuppets
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There are drugs that - theoretically, cannot be in your system period. Anabolic steroids would fall under this.
There are drugs that can't be in your system on the day of competition only - meaning, it's okay if you were tested randomly OUT of competition and it was found in your system. Cocaine is in this category and so in marijuana. The difference is that cocaine does not stay in your system for very long (a day or two max), marijuana can stay in your system for 30 days so you can test positive for marijuana out of competition and have it overlap with the day of competition and get DQ'd. Cocaine because it doesn't stay in the system that long, the chances of something like this happening is pretty low. You'd pretty much have to be doing a line before the fight to test positive in the post fight test.
Brerlappin
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My big gripe with it realistically is, in any other respected sport, a champion busted for doing coke at any time of the year, on or off season, would be banned for x amount of time, and fined. Its just another reason UFC wont be taken seriously.
Ranger Taffles
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I'm just surprised at the lack of action against this. Handling the use of cocaine like that is just awful. I mean it's better that he's going into rehab but what the fuck at being tested positive before the fight.
How've I never seen this? When did this happen? What the hell, Chuck?
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