Alistair Overeem Tests For Elevated Testosterone, Will Require NSAC Meeting Ahead of UFC 146
By Chris Leslie on April 4, 2012
NSAC Executive Director Keith Kizer sent out an email today regarding the surprise drug tests issued to UFC 146 Press Conference. Kizer stated that Alistair Overeem was the only one with an abnormal test result. Overeem tested with a 10:1 testosterone/epitestosterone ratio, NSAC’s highest accepted ratio level is 6:1.
Overeem will be required to appear in front of NSAC in order to be licensed ahead of his May 26 matchup. While Overeem could possibly be licensed, it is likely that his championship fight with UFC heavyweight champion Junior Dos Santos is in jeopardy.
The only silver lining for the UFC is that UFC 146 is all heavyweights, so finding a replacement should not be difficult.
NSAC stated that Alistair Overeem, Junior dos Santos, Frank Mir, Cain Velasquez, Roy Nelson and Antonio Silva were all tested after the conference. With only Overeem, testing high.
The failed test could also cause Overeem’s UFC 141 win over Brock Lesnar to be overturned to a “no contest” due to the conditions set forth in his December hearing for a temporary license prior to UFC 141.
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Anyone else sick of these high testosterone levels? It’s time for DW to put his foot down. If you fail a testosterone test, prepare to get suspended for a more substantial ammount of time.
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I totally agree. I think Zuffa have a responsibility and duty to do something about this. This is becoming a big problem for the UFC but more importantly, the sport. F*** the business side of it and the fact that overeem is a big draw, they need to salvage the integrity of Miixed Martial Arts competition. They should send a strong message to fighters. Some diciplinary action that really says “bra, we aint messing around”.
This also comes after overeem was given a conditional license and told he would be randomly tested.
Anyone think overeem will be replaced for that title shot? Cain or Mir are the only long shot possibilities IMO> Dana could pull a “diaz/condit” and put Mir in to face JDS. I wouldn’t be against that.
They should allow the fight but Overeem has to stand on one leg only.
I agree, unfortunately it makes me question Overeem entirely since his transformation into his size he is now. It really sucks to think that way but there is so much doubt now because the problem is so big.
The bigger the stakes the bigger the risks it seems, morals and fair play seem to have no comparison to the desire for big bucks so the testing has to be more serious.
I’m so shocked. What’s next, there gonna tell me that WWE isn’t real? If he doesn’t have some doctor prescribing him roids “legally” and he does in fact get pulled, I see them making it JDS/Mir, Cain/big foot, and nelson/gonzaga. Don’t know where that will leave Del Rsario though. Wiki already says jds/Cain 2 which could happen.
Actually, WWE is what you make of it. Yes it’s a real men’s soap opera. Yes they do actually get hurt from time to time. Yes it’s entertaining if you look at it for what it is, entertainment, almost like a live soap opera(except for Smackdown which is usually tape delayed but sometimes it is actually live). Yes, that was Robin Leach bringing the Championship Belt and reading the rules in Wrestlemania 9. Yes that was Donald Trump you got to rub the belt on it’s way to the ring.
If you want to look at it with a closed mind, then no, it’s not real. No the story lines are not real(although some of the “rivalries” extended into personal life). No the moves they do really don’t hurt them as bad as they make it look. No it doesn’t have anything to do with actual fighting.
The sad truth is that so many people follow the WWE including INTELLIGENT celebrities as well as Fortune 500 CEO’s, and I bet my first born child they all know it’s fake and still love every minute of it ;)
Can’t see how they love it…never liked it…never will. One of the main reasons i enjoy MMA is the variety of competition…real competition is what keeps pulling me to rent UFC PPV’s, i’ve always been a contact sports fan though and i think the mimicking of a real sport is what makes me dislike it…can’t imagine spending money on a WWE PPV.
Even though I was always one to defend Overeem against those that accused him of doping, my defense was always that he’s never tested positive. I have to admit that when I read they randomly tested at the press conference I thought to myself, “Well, now we will know if Overeem is clean.” I hoped he would be…
@Justin Welcome back, dude. Where have you been?!?!?! The UFC NEEDS to take a page from the NFL. I bet there won’t be any bounties any time soon!!
What a big surprise…as soon as I heard there was a surprise drug test for this card I had a feeling something was gonna come up under Overeem. It’s almost like the UFC did this purposely to get the truth out of him. Sorry, I don’t care what type of meat and shit you eat, eating 10 times a day doesn’t get you in shape huge like him.
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHA!!!!! All those people that constantly said that Overeem didn’t juice and is all natural… what do you have to say now? Remember, most of you said that you can’t cycle like that and have it be effective and that everyone who accused him of juicing are just
moronsand don’t know anything about weight lifting. Hmm… how’s that crow?So now, all the people that CONSTANTLY talk shiit about Chael need to include Overeem in those statements.
This is no surprise and proof that all the ducking and dodging drug tests before was for a reason. Hope they nail him to a wall.
It just sucks that there’s the potential for him to Marquardt this card. I WAS looking forward to it.
Name calling is not necessary. -BSBiz
Oh I know you guys are gonna love this conspiracy theory……
So Overeem tests positive right? Ok, so who did he just beat? BROCK LESNAR…..Now guess who just made an appearance on RAW(for those of you that don’t know, that’s the WWE’s Monday night show)
Now the theory is, did Vince McMahon call up ole boy Dana White and say “Hey, I know Brocks almost washed up as a UFC fighter, how bout we get Overeem to get all doped up, say his mom’s sick so he can go back home to be with her, come back, beat Lesnar, Lesnar retires. Theeeeen a couple months later, Overeem gets docked for doping and Lesnar’s return to the WWE will just help finish off Wrestlemania week?”
It all makes sense now, Brock came back to lose one more fight, then “retire” and go back into the WWE. BTW, his body can’t obviously be in that bad of shape if he’ll be wrestling. Granted he’s not getting punched or kicked or anything else like he would in the UFC, but he’s still gonna get dinged up, it happens. Maybe DW got exactly what he wanted out of him and wanted to cut him loose after all the medical issues. Either way, it’s really funny now that Overeem cheated in his fight that forced Brock to make the decision to hang up the gloves before he had a losing record.
Hard to Marquardt a card this far out, don’t you think?
You still got what I was saying though, didn’t you?
No matter what, this has ruined the card. Someone, who has done all the right things, is going to get the stink end of the stick cause Reem wanted to continue to cheat.
To be clear, I wasn’t calling anyone morons. I was quoting what other people have said in the past… I just forgot to put it in “quotation marks.”
It doesn’t matter at this point, but if you go back and read it, you’ll see what I mean.
Couldn’t have said it better myself. Good job.
“Hey Brock…it’s Dana. Do you have any plans on May 26th? I was wondering if you had any interest in making me….urrrgggghhh…in making a $hitload of money?”
Yay Brock versus JDS LOL! biggest draw in UFC history!
“The hot crowd at the AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami came unglued as Brock Lesnar reappeared in a WWE ring for the first time in eight years on Monday Night Raw Super Show.” courtesy of the Miami Herald.
Nuff said i think there, he’s now under Vince’s hand.
If he passed the drug tests when he fought Brock, why would it be overturned? This is has nothing to do with UFC 141.
conditions in his licensure hearing prior to UFC 141 required him to pass two random tests after 141, it’s likely this was one of those two. So unless he has been given two that were not put on record (which doesn’t usually happen), his UFC 141 win could be at risk.
I could be wrong, but I think Chris is right, but this was due to something that happened pre fight. I wanna say it was something about him going back home to be with his mom and “finishing” his training there. I know while he was back there he had to take a test or 2 leading up to 141 before he came back to the states, then once back he had to take another withing like 3 days and something about after the fight too. I’m too lazy to look it up and my memory isn’t always on it’s game, especially when it’s tired
Brock isn’t coming back and thank god! He’s too busy feuding John Cena now! lol. HE is where he SHOULD be.
I’m not at all surprised by this..I don’t see why anyone else is surprised by this of course Overeem was juicing he has been for years
Meeee the fact that you enjoy wwe and keep talking about that joke mockery here makes me not shocked, and is the same reason why you could believe something as stupid as what you just said about Brock
Reem’s mom was sick so he went home and skipped a mandatory test. Then they were gonna have him fly to England to take it and he was 2 weeks late. This was extra time for him to Get the roids out of his system and he passed that test after he delayed it (where is the absolute genius that swore it takes 6 months to Get any ped out of their body). Reem has been on roids prob since before even moving up weight. He had a rise much like bonds from good to great, which is why its so hard for me to understand how people would believe he didn’t do them. Prob 70% do roids in some form or fashion in my belief.
I don’t think it ruins it at all. Mir moves up the title fight and werdum replaces him to take on Cain.