Why do UFC fighters have to be in the USADA testing pool for 6 months....

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before they can fight when they unretire. Seems like to long. Why not test them every 1-2 weeks for a couple months and just let them fight. Surely if the fighter has been taking any steroids they will pick it up in that timespan.
 
TheWobbler said:
before they can fight when they unretire. Seems like to long. Why not test them every 1-2 weeks for a couple months and just let them fight. Surely if the fighter has been taking any steroids they will pick it up in that timespan.
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So you're not against it in principal, you just think it should be 2-3 months instead of 6 months? What, 6 weeks is too short but 5 months is too long?!?

Damn TS, this is some serious fucking nitpickery. It also proves no matter what number they select, someone will wail about it.
 
Dreyga2000 said:
To prevent them from hoping in and out of the program constantly... Otherwise fighter simply just opt out of USADA whenever they didn't have fight scheduled.

Gonna take a couple months off? Hop out of USADA then sign back in 2 weeks before your fight.
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So they’d have to retire and unretire nonstop? Pretty sure the ufc would be able to stop that from happening.
 
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Dreyga2000 said:
To prevent them from hoping in and out of the program constantly... Otherwise fighter simply just opt out of USADA whenever they didn't have fight scheduled.

Gonna take a couple months off? Hop out of USADA then sign back in 2 weeks before your fight.
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Pierced7681 said:
So they’d have to retire and unretire nonstop? Pretty sure the ufc would be able to stop that from happening.
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It’s also so anyone who was retired can’t just return all juiced to the gills and fight that way. They have to (ostensibly) be natty for 6 months before they’re able to fight. Otherwise someone could use a shitload of gear during their “retirement” and return all roided to hell.
 
Pierced7681 said:
So they’d have to retire and unretire nonstop? Pretty sure the ufc would be able to stop that from happening.
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They did stop that from happening - when USADA put in a 6 month requirement ;)

As it stands, UFC gave themselves an out (in the UFC/USADA contract) and can remove the 6 month wait, if UFC wants. So when it suits them, they actually choose to and go out of their way to allow it to happen, not go out of their way to "stop that from happening".
 
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BFoe said:
It’s also so anyone who was retired can’t just return all juiced to the gills and fight that way. They have to (ostensibly) be natty for 6 months before they’re able to fight. Otherwise someone could use a shitload of gear during their “retirement” and return all roided to hell.
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Didn’t Brock do that and he got a waiver to fight?
 
SeattleFightFan said:
They did stop that from happening - when USADA put in a 6 month requirement ;)

As it stands, UFC gave themselves an out (in the UFC/USADA contract) and can remove the 6 month wait, if UFC wants. So when it suits them, they actually choose to and go out of their way to allow it to happen, not go out of their way to "stop that from happening".
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Yea for short notice fights they can waive the six month rule. But even still, there’s no way a fighter would be allowed to constantly retire and unretire to avoid usada if there was no six month rule.
 
Pierced7681 said:
Didn’t Brock do that and he got a waiver to fight?
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Yeah exactly! They gave him a special exemption and then it turned out he was juiced. I don’t blame Mark Hunt for being pissed.
 
Steroids are most beneficial for training, not so much on fight night. So it makes perfect sense to test the athletes during the very period when they would be using them.
 
Because it’s the rule.

They are given a questionnaire when they join the UFC where they are asked to list ANY drugs, legal or not in the previous 6 months. If you admit to taking an illegal ped, they monitor it to make sure the levels are dropping as they normally should if you are no longer taking it (except for Jon

If you lie, they can nail you to the wall. It’s pretty simple really. The whole idea behind drug testing is that you are fighting “clean”. If you stopped juicing a month ago, how “clean” are you?
 
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It's almost like you're a filthy casual who wasn't around to hear Hunto bitch about Brawk's exemption when he came out of "retirement" to fight him.
 
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