Test Results for UFC 143: Only one test came back positive

[Jack3d]

http://www.mmamania.com/2012/2/9/278...diaz-vs-condit

Keith Kizer: NSAC Director

Thank you for the many email and phone calls. I am still waiting for all the steroid and drug test results to come back. We did have at least one positive test. I will send out an email later today on that matter.

Cesar Gracie via Josh Gross

I asked Cesar Gracie yesterday re: rumor about an issue w/ Nick Diaz's drug test. His answer: "I have been told not to comment on anything."

lol

[kaps]

Most people are expecting Nick to fail for Marijuana. His legal prescription....

[chiguy91]

KevinI Kevin Iole
Keith Kizer of NV Athletic Commission confirms Nick Diaz tested positive for marijuana and complaint was filed against him.

arielhelwani Ariel Helwani
NSAC announces Diaz tested positive for "marijuana metabolites, add that "a complaint for disciplinary action against Diaz has been filed."

KevinI Kevin Iole
At the 1/31 Vanda hearing, one NV commissioner tried to take it easy on him and others beat him back. That means trouble for Nick I suspect

[chiguy91]

Nick Diaz tested positive for marijuana after his UFC 143 loss to Carlos Condit

By Kevin Iole, Yahoo! Sports
7 minutes ago
UFC welterweight contender Nick Diaz failed his post-fight urinalysis Saturday following his loss to Carlos Condit in their bout for the interim welterweight championship at UFC 143 at the Mandalay Bay Events Center, Keith Kizer, executive director of the Nevada Athletic Commission, announced Thursday.

Diaz, 28, who tested positive for marijuana, is a second-time offender in Nevada and, thus, faces a one-year suspension. He also tested positive for marijuana following a Feb. 24, 2007, victory over Takanori Gomi at a PRIDE Fighting Championship event held at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas.

Six weeks after the first positive test the commission fined Diaz $3,000 (20 percent of his $15,000 purse), suspended him for six months and changed his win over Gomi to a no-decision. The commission’s report in 2007 noted Diaz’s concentration of THC, the active ingredient in marijuana, was 175, three-and-a-half times the concentration level of 50 required under Nevada regulations to produce a positive test result.

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“All results received thus far have been negative, except Mr. Diaz tested positive for marijuana metabolites,” Kizer said in a release Thursday. “A complaint for disciplinary action against Mr. Diaz has been filed.”

Diaz isn’t the first boxer to test positive for marijuana recently. Matt Vanda appeared before the Nevada commission Jan. 31 after a second positive test for marijuana. He had initially been suspended for 90 days by the New Jersey State Athletic Control Board after marijuana was discovered in his system following a Nov. 12, 2010, bout against Ossie Duran.

Marijuana was again found in Vanda’s system following a Dec. 16, 2011, loss to Marco Antonio Rubio in Las Vegas and on Jan. 31 the Nevada commission fined Vanda 40 percent of his $11,000 purse and suspended him for a year.

If Diaz is fined 40 percent of his purse, it would cost him $80,000 of the $200,000 he earned in the unanimous decision loss to Condit last Saturday for the UFC interim welterweight title.

Diaz was on the verge of getting a rematch with Condit for the interim championship when the test results returned and scuttled the bout. UFC president Dana White, in Brazil to tape “The Ultimate Fighter: Brazil,” sent out a message on Twitter late Tuesday in which he said Condit had agreed to a rematch.

But all sides denied Wednesday that a rematch had been agreed upon before news of the positive test result was released Thursday.

http://sports.yahoo.com/mma/news?slu...ed_test_020912

[kaps]

Not surprising. Damn that PED THC!

[jaded]

The marijuana ruling of banned substances is really crazy...if anything marijuana will have a negative impact on performance...definitely not enhanced.

[-Swizzy-]

they changed the fight to a No Contest.

how does that make any sense? why is Condit getting punished for Diaz's mistake?

[F l i c k e r]

The marijuana ruling of banned substances is really crazy...if anything marijuana will have a negative impact on performance...definitely not enhanced.

Not for him. Nick has openly stated that it makes him fight better.


No wonder he wasn't going down to those head kicks. That's the second time he tried to cheat one of my boys.

[F l i c k e r]

they changed the fight to a No Contest.

how does that make any sense? why is Condit getting punished for Diaz's mistake?

Doesn't make sense but Nick is a repeat offender and they probably just stayed consistent with the previous punishment.

[-Swizzy-]

Doesn't make sense but Nick is a repeat offender and they probably just stayed consistent with the previous punishment.

yeah but he won the previous time. shouldn't it be No Contest only if the offender wins? even though marijuana isn't exactly a PED.

the NC actually favors Diaz. he must be happy and jumping for joy right now.