Leslie Smith is a top ranked MMA fighter.  She was on a two fight win streak wining three of her last four bouts (with the loss at the hands of now featherweight champion Cris Cyborg) when the UFC let her go from the organization. Smith was scheduled to fight on April 21, 2018 at UFC Fight Night 128.  … More How Leslie Smith’s Legal Action Against the UFC May Achieve Project Spearhead’s Goals

In a narrative that is becoming all too familiar, three more UFC athletes have successfully traced positive drug tests back to tainted supplements. Today the US Anti Doping Agency announced that Junior dos Santos Almeida and Antonio Rogerio Nogueira, who each tested positive for hydrochlorothiazide had this finding traced back to contaminated products sold by a … More 3 UFC Athletes Handed Reduced Suspensions After Tracing Positive Drug Tests to Tainted Supplements

Update June 17, 2019 – The below decision was affirmed on appeal.  Details covered here on the excellent Boxing Exq website ______________________________________ They say bad facts make bad cases and reasons for judgement published last week in the Wilder v. World of Boxing LLC case fits this mold. Deontay Wilder and Alexander Povetkin where contracted … More The Weird Findings of the Wilder v. Povetkin Doping Lawsuit

Today Saul “Canelo” Alvarez and the Nevada State Athletic Commission agreed to a 6 month suspension for the boxer who violated the State’s anti doping standards by ingesting Clenbuterol. Alvarez claimed the positive drug test could be traced back to tainted Mexican beef.  As previously discussed Nevada regulations allow for reduced penalties and even no … More Canelo Alvarez and NSAC Agree to 6 Month Suspension for “Tainted Beef” Clenbuterol Finding

A recent trend in Mixed Martial Arts is fighters failing an anti-doping test, being exonerated (or at least minimizing punishment) by tracing the source back to tainted supplements and then suing the supplement manufacturer. Lyman Good filed such a suit in 2017 as did Tim Means.  Earlier this year Yoel Romero also filed such a lawsuit.  … More Josh Barnett Latest UFC Fighter To Sue Supplement Company Following Positive Doping Test

Karate Combat, a self described full contact professional karate league, was launched today.  The effort was supported by pioneer mixed martial artists Bas Rutten and Chuck Liddell who are listed as “League Ambassadors”. They released fight footage from its “pre-season” event which took place in Budapest, Hungary. The leagues rules and regulations were also published … More Bas Rutten and Chuck Liddell Help Launch Professional Karate Fighting League