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12-22-2018 , 07:04 PM

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PartyGirlUK

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Excellent HW brawl on Showtime rn.

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12-23-2018 , 07:26 PM

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D_goat

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Jon jones got popped for a trace amount of the same stuff he got caught with last time .

USADA isn’t doing anything but Nevada isn’t giving him a license

So they are moving the whole card to LA on 6 days notice

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12-23-2018 , 07:32 PM

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Incredible logistics if they succeed - they must have had notice of the potential problem.

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12-23-2018 , 07:36 PM

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Incredible logistics if they succeed - they must have had notice of the potential problem.

What about people who bought tickets / flew into Vegas ?

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12-23-2018 , 07:39 PM

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Tickets are getting refunded, if you flew in I guess rearrange your flights or get a bus to L.A....

https://mmajunkie.com/2018/12/jon-jo...son-dana-white

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12-23-2018 , 08:08 PM

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How much should Alexander Gustafsson's manager shake Dana down for? Is $500k too little?

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12-23-2018 , 08:14 PM

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How much should Alexander Gustafsson's manager shake Dana down for? Is $500k too little?

Well Dana is losing 5 million on the location change

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12-23-2018 , 09:10 PM

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12-23-2018 , 09:35 PM

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Crazy they're still letting him fight. How could there still be enough of the stuff for him to pop 18 months later? Doesn't the stuff have a half life of like 16 hours?

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12-23-2018 , 09:38 PM

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Crazy they're still letting him fight. How could there still be enough of the stuff for him to pop 18 months later? Doesn't the stuff have a half life of like 16 hours?

According to a report I saw it could be in his body forever

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12-23-2018 , 09:39 PM

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I saw the NSAC guy saying that but no actual report. Like if thats the case wouldn't have all the previous testing he's done have caught it?

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12-23-2018 , 09:42 PM

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I saw the NSAC guy saying that but no actual report. Like if thats the case wouldn't have all the previous testing he's done have caught it?

I agree . Tom Lawler said he got 2 years for the same amount

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12-23-2018 , 09:54 PM

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Given the slow death of boxing, it seems to me that the UFC would be by far the NSAC's biggest customer. How have they not gotten their own hand-picked people onto the commission yet? As far as I know, commission members are appointed directly by the Governor. Dana and Ari must have been pretty damn stingy with their campaign contributions to have a body full of political appointees constantly giving them static.

Also, very much looking forward to seeing Uberjones in Rizin soon.

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12-24-2018 , 12:39 AM

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Haha man this "sport" is such a joke

JFC

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12-24-2018 , 01:50 AM

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This is beyond terrible for the sport. Just ban him already.

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12-24-2018 , 02:31 AM

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Lucky for him they got to the bottom of this before he was unfairly punished for something he 100% did not do. A Christmas miracle.

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12-24-2018 , 03:21 AM

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How is this "residue that stays for 18 months" not happening more often? Jon Jones sure is a special snowflake.

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12-24-2018 , 03:33 AM

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Jon Jones refusing VADA testing makes sense now.

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12-24-2018 , 07:14 AM

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Just to be clear, the reason he's tested negative several times between his last positive and now is because of a thing called "pulsing", which basically means residual metabolites can appear and disappear over time in a person.

As for why no other athlete in the UFC has ever encountered this or attempted to use it as a defense...uhhh

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12-24-2018 , 07:46 AM

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He's going to get booed so darn hard.

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12-24-2018 , 12:00 PM

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This scenario is so absurd.

The gall of the UFC to push this story about "pulsing" as if we need a magical explanation to help us understand why Jones keeps testing positive for a weight cutting drug, which stays in your system for six weeks max, during his weight cut and at no other time.

Feels genuinely bad for anyone that made plans to attend the fight.

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12-24-2018 , 01:16 PM

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12-24-2018 , 04:26 PM

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Every time I think mma is a real sport and people shouldn’t look down on me for watching it...

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12-24-2018 , 05:40 PM

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Jon jones is doing Vada now too

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12-24-2018 , 06:36 PM

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Every time I think mma is a real sport and people shouldn’t look down on me for watching it...

i mean lol just stop pretending that you watch it because of some deep respect you have for the noble martial arts, and just be like yea i enjoy watching two idiots beat the **** out of each other because they're ****ing dumb and useless

i think people will be more understanding than you expect

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