Welcome to another edition of Payout Perspective. In this edition we take a look at UFC 226 taking place at the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Nevada. Cormier is a Champ x2 Daniel Cormier knocked out Stipe Miocic to win the UFC Heavyweight Championship. Cormier becomes just the second fighter (behind Conor McGregor) to hold […]
USADA
Lesnar return to Octagon will happen in 2019
MMA Junkie reports USADA’s confirmation that Brock Lesnar entered the USADA testing pool on July 3, 2018. This means that the earliest Lesnar could return to the Octagon would be January 8, 2019 according to USADA. There was speculation that Lesnar would be ready by the UFC 25th Anniversary Show in New York in November […]
UFC welterweight flagged by USADA
Bradley Scott was placed on provisional suspension by USADA after an in-competition sample was flagged on May 27, 2018. Scott lost to Carlo Pedrsoli, Jr. at UFC Fight Night 130 on the same date. Scott has been with the UFC since 2012 and has gone 3-5 during his stint with the company. The UFC issued […]
Josh Barnett and UFC parting ways
Josh Barnett is negotiating his release from the UFC due to the lack of trust he has in USADA. Barnett received an admonished but no suspension for a flagged drug test administered by the UFC’s third party anti-doping officiant. Barnett was the first UFC fighter to “prevail” in an arbitration for a failed test. The […]
Light heavyweight accepts one-year USADA sanction
Michal Oleksiejczuk has accepted a one-year sanction for a violation of the UFC Anti-Doping Policy per a USADA release on Tuesday. His victory over Khalil Rountree was overturned by the Nevada Athletic Commission after testing positive for a banned substance. It was the light heavyweight’s first fight with the UFC. And now, the 23-year-old will […]