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Aldo McGregor CONFIRMED July 11 Vegas
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discombobulate wrote: »Sold my tickets as couldn't justify the cost after just having a baby
Just wondering what bars in Dublin are likely to be showing the fight?
Never let that kid live this down.
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discombobulate wrote: »Sold my tickets as couldn't justify the cost after just having a baby
Just wondering what bars in Dublin are likely to be showing the fight?
I feel your pain dude, sold mine too. Couldn't justify the costs as saving deposit for house and best mate who was going to come got engaged.0 -
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Think will be picked up by McGregor soon enough
Translated by google. Source: http://sportv.globo.com/site/combate...o-pela-pf.html
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Last week, UFC announced a new anti-doping control program, and one of the concerns expressed by journalists was how would they run these tests outside the US. On Thursday, an incident in Nova União team base served as an example of how this control will be difficult in Brazil. An attempt to hold a surprise test on Jose Aldo in Rio de Janeiro ended up with a notification, a fine and a notice to leave the country for the professional sent by the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NAC) to collect his urine sample.
Upon arrival at the Upper gym, Nova União's headquarters in Rio de Janeiro, Aldo received the news that a collector sent by the NAC was waiting to make a random test - the fighter will defend his featherweight belt (up to 66kg) in Las Vegas, in Nevada, on the 11th July at UFC 189, against Conor McGregor. The Brazilian fighter did what he was asked and collected an urine sample in a plastic pot.
However, surprised by the arrival of the collector, who had no identification linking him to the NAC, the coach and Aldo's agent, Dede Pederneiras, contacted the Brazilian MMA Athletic Commission (CABMMA), which was also not informed about the test. According to Pederneiras, the entity called federal police, who arrived to the gym and found that the American collector, identified as Ben Mosier, from the laboratory Drug Free Sport, had not a work visa - his business visa, according to the officer who attended the site, does not give him the right to work, just hold meetings and negotiations.
Cristiano Sampaio, chief operating officer of CABMMA, came to the gym soon after, already in the early afternoon, and met with the coach, the collector and the federal police. After more than four hours of conversation in a room, it turned up that Mosier could even be deported because of the irregularity on Thursday, which did not happen. Mosier was notified, fined R$ 413.88 and notified to leave the country within eight days, leaving the gym in the evening. Combate.com tried to interview the collector, but he declined to comment on the fact. Sampaio also refused to be interviewed to explain which were the irregularities pointed out by himself in the sample collection process with Jose Aldo. A new collection will be made on Friday by CABMMA in accordance with the NAC. The sample initially taken by José Aldo was thrown away by the fighter himself before leaving the gym in the afternoon. Pederneiras defended the team's attitude in the case.
- We did everything they asked. Before everything happened, Aldo had already taken the sample, (the urine) was already in the pot. But when the Brazilian commission arrived, they saw the collection wasn't done in the way it was supposed to be done in Brazil. And there was an aggravating circumstance, because a federal officer found that the person who was here could not even be doing work, he was working without permission to work. It is the same thing as going to the US on a tourist visa or B1 / B2, from what I understand, and trying to work. I do not quite understand that part but, from what I know, he would need to have a work visa to do what he was doing here. And his situation got worse because the lab person has a problem with immigration here. We don't even get ourselves in this situation. In fact, this is a problem between the Brazilian Athletic Commission and the Nevada Commission
. The UFC has nothing to do with this story, who makes this kind of testing is the athletic commission - explained the coach and manager.
Before the confusion, the fighter underwent the test willingly, although he found it strange that the procedure wasn't done by CABMMA. The champion had some difficulty to fill the pot and felt pissed off at times, but he said he did wasn't bothered.
- It is normal. There came a time in the sport that not only me, but also other athletes have to go through it. This is my first time here in Brazil. I think it should have been done by the Brazilian commission, because I live here. But there's no problem. That's nothing to me. Fighting, pissing, to me it's all the same thing - said Aldo.
The champion of the division to 66kg stressed that he did not apply for a license to fight in Las Vegas yet, and that the test date informed by NAC for the first test was another. José Aldo also praised the new anti-doping control policy of the Ultimate, who promised to test regularly in the organization's athletes.
- I liked it a lot. I think you have to work the right way and that's what I trust. You have to get in there and do the perfect job, regardless of what you take or not.0 -
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