Eleven UFC 96 Fighters Drug Tested
Shane Carwin
Eleven UFC 96 competitors, including all ten of the evening’s winners, were drug tested by the Ohio Athletic Commission following their bouts on Saturday at the Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio.
According to MMA Junkie the tested fighters were Quinton Jackson, Shane Carwin, Matt Brown, Matt Hamill, Gray Maynard, Tamdan McCrory, Kendall Grove, Jason Day, Jason Brilz, Brandon Vera, and Shane Nelson.
The results of the tests, which detect both recreational drugs (such as marijuana and cocaine) as well as performance enhancers (such as anabolic steroids), will be made available in several weeks.
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Tags: Brandon Vera, Gray Maynard, Jason Brilz, jason day, Kendall Grove, matt brown, Matt Hamill, Quinton Jackson, shane carwin, Shane Nelson, Tamdan McCrory
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Glad they all tested clean.
It didn’t say that, it said they were tested, and the results will be available in several weeks.
My bad. guess my reading skills are poor. Thanks Justin for reminding me I’m getting old.
why can’t they smoke weed? say they fight out of Amsterdam or Mexico?
Drug of abuse. Are you allowed to smoke weed at work? Me niether. Besides weather it should or shouldn’t be, weed is illegal in this country my friend. Not that I agree with it. It just is.
Based on the opinions that came out in relation to Nick Diaz’s win over Gomi getting overturned due to his positive result for weed… they can’t smoke weed because it has a pain numbing effect.
it is somewhat pain numbing but for fighter safety it’s a terrible thing to take, it’s a hallucinogen for one, plus it affects your motor system…you know what enables you to throw/block a punch and what not. Not to mention what smoking does to your breathing…ask Mr. Slice.
I was simply referring to what the NSAC had to say in justification of the NC, and the suspension they handed down. I’m not intending to argue what the actual effects are or aren’t. The bottom line is: regardless of where someone comes from, if the state athletic commission where the fight takes place says it’s banned, then it’s banned and they better test negative.
Was responding to the original poster and agreeing with you!
Sorry if I seemed like I was trying to argue, I was just clarifying my earlier point.
haha we seem to always have that misunderstanding (Chris L.) no worries, don’t have to apologize for that.
Yeah, it’s all good, I figured you knew that, but partially that is for the benefit of other readers.
I think its more impressive to win a fight if you’re smoking weed. It’s affects on an athlete are only negitive.
Pain numbing is not a negative in a fight.
Is when ligaments and tendons are tearing and bones are breaking. then you’re out for months.
But that isn’t the argument. If that is the case adrenaline should also be suppressed medically somehow to limit its affect on pain sensors so that someone would not be able to ignore a broken hand (Franklin/Louaso, Vera/Sylvia) or a broken nose (Couture/Rizzo). The benefit of weed in a fight is its pain numbing effect. I also think the negatives to it far outweigh the benefits, but pain numbing has to be taken into consideration.
Adrenaline occurs naturally THC does not. I’ve shattered a hand and broken my tibia and still gone on, that happens. Add THC on top of adrenaline and a cerebral hemorrhage or heart attack can occur. You expect adrenaline to happen but when you add certain drugs and try to fight you are more prone to serious side effects like death.
i love reading this BS…
since when does adreniline help with pain? i think you meant Endorphins…
if you hit your hand with a hammer a few times your body will release endorphins to help you cope with the pain…
if you smoke weed and hit your hand with a hammer a few times it will hurt just as much and your body will still release the endorphins…
the negative effects( slower reaction speed, impaired vision, increase heart rate, and taking away cardio) that weed does to a person so hugely out weigh the benefits( supposed pain numbing, but its more like you just dont care) you’d have to be a empty box of crayons to use pot to numb pain…
you’d be better off having someone punch you over and over again to release endorphins than smoke a joint…
as for smoking pot causing death… LOL LOL LOL ( yes i lol’d 3 times)
i know of 2 cases where pot caused death that were not related to an acute allergic reaction… 1 was a girl i knew, she thought she had a bad cold and smoked some pot, the bad cold was pneumonia, and the coughing from the weed caused her lungs to collapse… the other was suicide, a guy locked him self in a room with a couple pounds of pot, taped the door and windows shut and began to smoke it all until he ran out of air…
please show me where pot has caused death due to it mixing with adrenaline or endorphins in your body… because i call BS
When adrenaline is released it is also released with other hormones that can combat pain as well such as cortisone(what do you think the shots are for). The higher rate of blood flow also allows endorphins to be released freely, so you are right there.
Understand I am not saying smoking pot causes death(there are literally no documented cases of pot alone causing death) but it causes the diminished reaction times, causing someone to take more punches to the head which can lead to concussion. If you have a concussion, the body intentionally slows it’s blood flow to the brain in order for the brain to “reset” itself, if your adrenaline is running your heart rate will already be elevated and the misfiring of receptors(just from the concussion minus marijuana) in the brain create an absolute disaster if increased blood flow continues and that can cause cerebral hemorrhaging. Which leads to death.
Also Marijuana does not stimulate endorphin release but dopamine release… guess what dopamine does… it raises the heart rate and blood pressure. High blood pressure and a high heart rate like I said above can spell disaster in a concussion.
Actually there are documented cases of pot causing death, but they were due to ingestion (eating) not inhalation. You will pass out before you can smoke enough pot to kill yourself (just from the pot, not the self-suffocation mentioned above). If you cook it down and make liquid THC for use in food (like brownies), it becomes so heavily concentrated (plus the rate of absorption into the body is accelerated) that it is possible to OD from ingestion.
That doesn’t account for the indirect deaths caused from pot, which are much like the indirect deaths from alcohol, though probably lesser in number. It wasn’t the drug that killed them, but it sure helped cause whatever did actually kill them.
I don’t understand why were having a discussion about weed on a fight website? I have nothing against pot but, its stupid to think that getting high would help you fight better. if anything it would slow you down, trust me i’ve smoked once or twice.
haha got started when some asked why it was illegal for fighting
heres the thing though… youd have to be under the influence of pot for it to affect your heart rate… some people it may raise there heart rate while others it lowers it…
having pot in your system doesnt mean your under the influence of it…
i think its a bit of a pointless arguement anyways… but it just goes to show that pot is in no way a performance enhancing drug… if it were a legal substance i doubt it would be a banned substance due to its negative affects…
I think it would still be banned. They don’t let people get in the Octagon drunk, why would they let someone get in there high? Which creates a problem because it stays in your system so long they can’t really know if you were high when you fought or just two weeks before…. so yeah, it would probably still be banned even if it were legal, which it’s not, nor will it be any time soon.
Alcohol is banned on competition day according to WADA. It all goes to protecting the fighters rather than just performance enhancing. I’m done here.