Update January 4, 2016 -Full video of the Summit has now been published and can be viewed here – Update – MMAFighting’s Marc Raimondi attended the summit and authored this helpful summary of what transpired. _______________________ Today the California State Athletic Commission is holding a “Dehydration and Weight Cutting Summit” in Los Angeles. The … More California Tackles Rapid Extreme Weight Cuts in MMA
Update January 12, 2016 – this week Magistrate Judge Delaney vacated the below default judgement. _________________________________ Reasons for judgement were recently published by the US District Court, ED California, suggesting damages of $20,000 following the commercial piracy of UFC 175. In the recent case (Joe Hand Promotions Inc. v. Toto) the Defendant operated a sports bar … More $20,000 Damages Suggested For Piracy of UFC 175
After surpassing the 100,000 signature threshold the White House was forced to respond to Nick Diaz’s 5 year suspension issued by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Unsurprisingly the official response was short noting this is not a matter in the Federal Government’s jurisdiction. Of interest the comment notes if there are federal issues in the … More White House Responds to Nick Diaz Nevada Suspension
Update December 15, 2015- USADA’s media relations specialist Ryan Madden has replied and confirms that, despite the silence in the TUE policy, that USADA uses WADA standards when reviewing TUE applications under the UFC anti doping policy. Madden advised as follows Thanks for your patience… I apologize for not getting back to you sooner. Regarding … More What Standards Do the UFC/USADA Have For TUE’s?
Adding to this site’s archived cases of UFC pay per view event piracy prosecutions, reasons for judgement were released recently by the US District Court, ED California, rejecting a claim for $110,000 in damages but instead awarding $4,750 in total damages. In the recent case (Joe Hand Promotions Inc. v. Dhillon) the Defendant operated a … More $4,750 in Damages Awarded Following UFC 173 Piracy
Update – Donald Cerrone now says he was only joking about having a TUE for IV use . ____________________ Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone has apparently been given a Therapeutic Use Exemption allowing him to rehydrate via an otherwise banned IV by the United States Anti Doping Agency ahead of his upcoming UFC lightweight title bout. If … More The Problem With Rumored USADA IV Exemption
The Province of Ontario has been one of the slowest in Canada to respond to their Criminal Code powers to legalize amateur mixed martial arts and other combat sports. As previously discussed, Ontario’s response to date has been silence making amateur MMA along with a host of other combative sports technically illegal in the Province. Last … More Ontario Pledges To “Clarify The Legal Status of Amateur Combative Sport”
Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic recently retired from MMA in the midst of a doping scandal. Cro Cop admitted to out of competition use of HGH shortly after being subject to USADA testing and now has the distinction of being the first fighter to be sanctioned under the UFC’s/USADA anti doping regime. He was handed a 2 … More Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic Handed Two Year Ban for Doping
Note – The below findings likely exclude concussions which appear to be “significantly underreported” with the authors noting that 40% of contests end in KO/TKO and concussions are likely in many of these bouts. In other words, the study finds there is a 39% reported injury rate in kickboxing bouts in addition to the likely … More 39% Kickboxing Injury Rate Revealed in 15 Year NSAC Record Review
Recently Michigan’s legislature passed a Bill seeking to regulate amateur Mixed Martial Arts. This week Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed the Bill into law. The AP published the following press release – LANSING, Michigan — Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has signed bills regulating mixed martial arts bouts between amateur fighters. Snyder says in a news … More Michigan Amateur Combat Sports Bill Signed Into Law
