UFC 93 Regulation: "As if it would be in the state of Nevada"?
January 9, 2009
Because the Irish government does not recognize MMA as a sport, Ratner will oversee many logistical duties normally done by an athletic commission, including hiring of referees, ringside officials, and drug testing.
“As if it would be in the state of Nevada,” Ratner tells MMAInsider.
Those were Marc Ratner’s comments to MMAWeekly’s MMAInsider blog on how the UFC will handle the regulatory environment for the upcoming UFC 93 card from Ireland. As MMAPayout blogged about previously, saying this is like a Nevada card is untrue, specifically in respect to steroid testing. Nevada conducts out of competition testing, something that seems absent from the UFC’s own internal policy. To borrow a turn of phrase from Ratner himself, one might even say that what happens in Las Vegas has “no bearing” on how the Ireland card is being handled.
