NSAC Denies Alistair Overeem License, May Reapply in December
By Chris Leslie on April 24, 2012
The Nevada State Athletic Commission voted today to deny Alistair Overeem a license after his failed March 27 drug test. The commission and Overeem’s representation engaged in a back-and-forth exchange of allegation and explanation for the majority of the meeting. Overeem was not given the maximum time until he could seek a license, but the suspension will end just short of a year since his last UFC fight.
One of the biggest surprises in the hearing came from NSAC executive director Keith Kizer, as he Kizer stated that Overeem actually left the March 27 after finding out about the drug tests. This revelation called into question Overeem’s insistence that he never knowingly took the testosterone. Overeem’s camp denied he left due to the drug test and he insisted that he left because he did not want to be publicly served with papers by his former management team, Golden Glory.
Overeem stated the test was the result of a shot given by Dr. Hector Molina to assist him in healing an injury before the fight. Dr. Molina testified that he gave Overeem a shot of B-12, texamethazone, keterolec and testosterone but stated, under oath, that he could not remember telling Overeem if there was testosterone in the shot or not. NSAC officials called this into question since Overeem knew he was subject to testing and believed him competent enough to take responsibility for what he took.
While it appeared that the commission took it easy on Overeem by not suspending him for a full year, Overeem cannot fight anywhere during this time as a condition of not being licensed. The commission also discussed that not being able to fight at UFC 146 was actually a bigger penalty than if he had been caught after the fight since they would be bound by only taking a percentage of his purse, rather than the entire purse.
Based on Overeem’s last fight at UFC 141, Overeem is losing out on around $1 million dollars when you include his base pay of $385,000, his per-fight signing bonus around $333,000, and his cut of PPV sales.
Overeem will not be allowed to apply for a license until December 27, just short of a year since UFC 141.
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Eh it was only a loss of a million… ;) whoops
And yet, some will say this is not a harsh enough penalty. Losing 1 million dollars is pretty harsh, if you ask me.
Well he should have thought about that before “unknowingly” shooting testosterone.
I made no argument that it was too harsh, I simply said that a lot of people will say a 9 month suspension isn’t harsh enough. Which you would know if you had READ WHAT I SAID.
Well, if you have READ WHAT I SAID, you would see that I was in no way arguing against you. It was simply an observation. Maybe you should take some of your own advice before trying to be a smart@ss for no reason.
Fair enough maybe. We will never know the real deal. Maybe this was true, or maybe he intentionally used some PED in one way or another. No one truly knows, and all the speculation is really old and played out. The fact that he is watching the possible 1 million lay on the couch and play with itself while he is forced to watch is not a light penalty. Indeed, as fighters who will be drug tested, there must be education in medication. Most of the Sanctioning Bodies are governed by approximately the same rules, these need to be learned, and anything put into a fighter’s body must be questioned and analyzed. There definitely should not be a time when an Athletic Commission gives leeway due to negligence or ignorance. If you are making a mill a show, and you are too stupid to do these things, then you have enough money to hire some one to regulate for you. Good luck Overeem, I expect that title to be in hand when you return.
Whatever. This scenario is like me working at a place that does drug tests and after failing the test my reason is, well I went to my local drug dealer and hit the dank or took a pill but never did he mention there would be illegal drugs in it. If your job makes you 1 million dollars per job, and the only thing you can’t do is take test, you might wanna have a chat with the doctor before you drive to his office and have him inject an unknown substance into your butt lol. This is the length that convo would need to be “doctor, does that have testosterone in it?” Lol. If your doctor doesn’t know the answer to that your already screwed. And furthermore, pretty much all doctors, sports or not, know that test being tested for religiously, AND that fighters most favorite excuse is i didn’t know what the doctor gave me. So its basically common knowledge that giving an athlete test is like giving liquor to a person in AA.
And his fine isn’t 1 million, that’s how much he loses since he is
retarded anda cheater. Man too bad for that early testing, he could’ve got the mil and then maybe got canned later (if the test wasn’t out of his body by then). But then again maybe he would’ve tested clean by fight night, robbing us and all clean opponents. What’s not fair then?Medical proof or it’s bashing. Knock it off. -BSBiz
@devin I find it funny in this post you call overeem a “cheater” who would have “robbed us and all clean opponents” (and I agree with you on this point by the way). Then you contradict yourself on the other page going on about Chael ‘beating’ anderson again. Chael is every bit the cheater Overeem is.
Tramp in her body!
*sigh* that hearing was such a joke..
Fact of the matter is….he cheated. He has been at the center of speculation for a long time and with the press conference test, he got caught. Way to force the NSAC’S hand. With what he pulled before the Lesnar fight…he put a bulls eye on his back.
@Bsbiz I don’t have medical proof, just physical proof…which could prob stand as medical proof;)
@Mikemac I could be totally wrong, but I believe Sonnen had a prescription (like well more than half of our greatest heroes in this sport likely have), but regardless, I agree…he cheated! And he would’ve gotten the belt stripped anyway had he won. I just like to tease all the people who get so worked up about their hero spider the chosen one. To me its so bizarre that Sonnen could rag doll him so easily. I guess spider literally just never really got a good wrestling match up. Which is really kinda wack, but whatever… Anyway yes, I can’t wait to see Sonnen beat that ass again come this summer!! And this time he really will be carrying around that belt!! Oh the heads that will explode lol
it was only a matter of time, but ill take his million, think of me as a trust holdings, haha
Honestly…who really cares…UFC is starting to suck!