What other sports intrude on fighters with drug testing like the UFC?

JonesBones said:
Cuz sports are about entertainment and making money. Nobody knows that better than Zuffa. And the NFL brings in more revenue than any sports league in the world. The top 3 are all American btw.
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But how much does the NFL make outside of the US?

NFL for all its trying has never managed to make it worldwide except for a few small places.. Germany is still a bit of an NFL hotbed, the UK and parts of Japan, but on the whole, NFL has failed to make that breakthrough into being a truly worldwide sport.

Same with other US Sports, Baseball outside of Asia is basically not even cared about in the rest of the world. NBA has a following in Europe but its still very niche.

NFL makes loads just because the USA is a freaking huge country.
 
Dr Hannibal Lecter said:
Does following WADA guidelines and codes, mean agencies that use them are as rigorous and reliable/efficient as USADA? Because I think that's what TS is asking.
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All the listed sports follow wada code and have wherabouts based testing (ie. you submit your whereabouts data)

There are other sports that to a lessar degree use the wada banned list but dont have full 24/7 testing in that you dont submit wherabouts, but they will turn up unannounced at club training sessions etc.
 
Charles Manson said:
Aren't even the grandmasters in chess being randomly tested?

Roid rage?

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in the chess community thats equivalent to
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Toco said:
but it seems like england's premier league is partners with USADA. maybe that's why they haven't been relevant in a while in the european scene

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Theres certainly a reason why Spanish domestic football is played at 50 miles an hour for the full 90 minutes.. ;)

(And also a reason why the Spanish National Team have been shite since Fuentes et al got busted, and Alonso Rodriguez decided to leave football for cycling)
 
Valkosen said:
Why was this route with USADA chosen and not one similar to other "publicly approved" sports? Unionised vs. non? (Honest question)

Thoughts on which more likely regarding roll out of USADA across the board:

a) To clean house for sake of fighter welfare and enforce "natural" competition, or

(b) To change public façade, rebrand with media etc and thereby open otherwise shut doors to grow company



Dana and Co. envision UFC being on par with the American mainstream sport leagues but decided not to pursue a standard said leagues hold themselves to? WTF...it just seems to me extra overhead, risk and cost to meet their goal while the integrity of card line-ups is also frustrating fans. How sharp need Ockham's razor be...
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Dana tried to do in house testing and tucked it up. Cung Le showed the UFC needed a third party system.

Also unions do play a role. For a long time they stopped testing all together in MLB, for example.
 
Valkosen said:
Why was this route with USADA chosen and not one similar to other "publicly approved" sports? Unionised vs. non? (Honest question)
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The Cung Le scandal might have something to do with it. The lab messed up and Zuffa execs refused to make an apology after previously pressuring Cung Le to make an admission. The whole thing was a mess.

I remembered the baseball players union and probably other unions in other big sports were generally against enhanced drug testing.
 
dimspace said:
All the listed sports follow wada code and have wherabouts based testing (ie. you submit your whereabouts data)

There are other sports that to a lessar degree use the wada banned list but dont have full 24/7 testing in that you dont submit wherabouts, but they will turn up unannounced at club training sessions etc.
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And what about different nations? You name Muay Thai, so do they do test in Thailand according to wada rules and regulations?
 
dimspace said:
All the listed sports follow wada code and have wherabouts based testing (ie. you submit your whereabouts data)

There are other sports that to a lessar degree use the wada banned list but dont have full 24/7 testing in that you dont submit wherabouts, but they will turn up unannounced at club training sessions etc.
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the ukad testing in the PL isn't as strict as the testing done in the ufc , players get tested 1 / 2 per season and one third of the players arent tested . it is not strict at all ...
 
For me this all comes down to this: stop using steroids
 
Dr Hannibal Lecter said:
And what about different nations? You name Muay Thai, so do they do test in Thailand according to wada rules and regulations?
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not sure which MT feds test.

in 2013 it wasnt a huge number of tests. 194 in comp, 49 out of comp.. 12 positives though, 4.9% positive rate which is seriously fucking alarming...

anything over about 1% is pretty high (UFC is at about 1.5%)



Looking at 2014 data,

most tests conducted by sports authority if thailand, then french anti doping, the the internation federation of MT, then Asia olympic council, polish anti doping, and a bunch of other national anti doping agencies.
 
orwamdaka said:
the ukad testing in the PL isn't as strict as the testing done in the ufc , players get tested 1 / 2 per season and one third of the players arent tested . it is not strict at all ...
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but it is conducted by a national anti doping agency, under the wada code.
 
lance used to love being tested.

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almost all the other sports, and they consider it normal, nobody bitches about it.
a french judoka recently lost his spot for the olympics because he didn't disclose properly his wherebouts for the 3rd time.
the f... olympics. In MMA Brock tests posistive and keeps his check.
also I guess all sports under USADA have the same treatment.
 
I don't know, but if there was to be one sport, it should be fighting.
 
dana and lorenzo wanted to sell the ufc, so they put USADA for the UFC to have a better image, and boom, 4 billion

pretty good deal for them, if you ask me
dimspace said:
Cycling
Athletics
Tennis
Soccer
Swimming
Water POlo
Archery
Marathon
Field events (High jump etc)
Biathlon
Triathlon
Badminton
Bobsleigh
Cannooing
Curling
Horse Racing/Showjumping
Fencing
Field Hockey
Gymnastics
Weight Lifting
Wrestling
Handball
Shooting
Ice Skating
Skiing
Volleyball
Taewando
American Football (Non NFL)
Motor racing
Snooker/Billiads
Boules!
Parachuting
Dancing
Motorcycling
Powerboating
Orienteering
Roller Sports
Water Skiing
Wushu
Surfing
Squash
Tug of War
Golf
BodyBuiding
Ju-Jitsu
Kickboxing
Muaythai
Powerlifting
Sambo
Boxing
Billiards

Do you want me to go on?
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aka, basically only olympics, the most boring event in the world

dimspace said:
Theres certainly a reason why Spanish domestic football is played at 50 miles an hour for the full 90 minutes.. ;)

(And also a reason why the Spanish National Team have been shite since Fuentes et al got busted, and Alonso Rodriguez decided to leave football for cycling)
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aside EPL, who uses WADA? spanish, nope. italian? german?
 
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