UFC Press Event (PED Event) Discussion (Video)

[shonuf]

UFC press event featuring UFC Chairman and CEO Lorenzo Fertitta and UFC President Dana White, live Wednesday, February 18 at 1pm/10am ETPT.

http://www.ufc.com/media/ufc-press-event-2015

http://www.ufc.tv/video/2015-ufc-press-event

UFC President Dana White and UFC Chairman and CEO Lorenzo Fertitta will discuss their company’s plan to address performance-enhancing drug use at a Wednesday press conference at Las Vegas’ Red Rock Casino Resort Spa.

UFC officials today announced the “media event” will take place at Red Rock’s Pavilion Ballroom on Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. PT local time).

The event is closed to the public but will be streamed live on UFC.com.

 

[Lepo Lepo]

10 am PT.

 

[TIMELESS TRUTH]

Muchas gracias. I was hoping I would get to see this.

 

[Jin Akutsu]

 

[SketchBounce]

dammit, I was almost hoping this would be on Fox sports so I could tape it. Hopefully they will have it available to watch on their website later. Thanks for the heads up.

 

[daPROFESSOR]

I feel bad for them trying to explain this... They're going to have to take a hard stance and its going to hurt the UFC brand...

 

[aross]

Hopefully it's not as awful as the NFL's press conferences responding to domestic violence and cheating issues (which were a total joke). The UFC can't hold up like the NFL can when it gets a lot of bad PR.

 

[Fight Gone Bad]

Anderson should have gone on Oprah...

 

[3timesacharm]

this is going to hurt us fans as much as it will the ufc brand. not happy

 

[jwikked]

I get the feeling it's going to be pretty huge. Going forward they'll cancel the contracts of fighters who use PEDs, and won't hire anyone who was caught using PEDs in the past. It'd have to be something drastic, surely.

 

[MarloStanfield]

how many hours until this is on?

 

[Jmarc]

how many hours until this is on?

9 more hours from NOW.

 

[Jmarc]

I think they should just be realistic, and announce they are implementing a new policy effective 6 months from now, with harder penalties for all positive tests. 2 year ban for first offense, no longer employed by the UFC for subsequent offense. That should be enough to show they are fairly serious. I doubt they will go hardcore and cut fighters right away, though that would be huge for the sports world.

 

[BrazilianDude]

Shit hits the fan wednesday

 

[ArtOfDrowning]

The time is now...to postpone further testing

 

[LUDELOW]

only press with credentials?

 

[LUDELOW]

oh btw, there is no OOC testing for UFC 185 because its in Texas.

 

[Jin Akutsu]

oh btw, there is no OOC testing for UFC 185 because its in Texas.

Looks like Nelson squeaks by again. :wink:

 

[chunglii]

I expect this to simply be damage control. The same rhetoric we're used to hearing "regulated by the govt, we don't have a drug problem" I hope I'm wrong and we actually hear specifics about a plan going forward and the UFC follows through with it.

 

[Fiestar]

do u need fight pass to watch it?