UFC Anti-Doping Case Study

The match was quickly forfeited by Tyson in the third round for literally biting a piece of Holyfield’s ear off. Tyson claimed that in his defense, biting Holyfield was retaliation for Holyfield’s illegal head butting. Tyson was disqualified and Holyfield automatically won the rematch. In addition to disqualification, Tyson also lost his purse (payment for the match), had to pay $3 million in fines, and lost his boxing license. Tyson’s over aggressive was a shock to the nation. Being a highly anticipated fight, it set a record for pay-per-view television at over two million home viewers. Tyson was reinstated and received his boxing licenses the following year in October of 1988. During the year, Tyson faced more fines and assault charges resulting in almost $100,000 in restitution and 200 hours of community service. It seemed as if Tyson had not learned his lesson, or was simply out of control. Following reinstatement and fines, Tyson was forced to forfeit a victory against Andrew Golota in 2000 after a drug test found him positive of using marijuana and was charged with more assault offenses (physical and sexual)

When the world’s top athletes are competing in sports, the use of steroids or any other enhancing drug is

how important it was for Joe to win the fight and what the outcomes could be if he did

When comparing the money that the fighters make to the pain they endure as a result of fighting, it is worth it. UFC events are viewed all over the world and are highly profitable. The fighters do make enough money to compensate for the physical pain they will endure from the fight. A monetized utilitarian would advocate that the money outweighs the negative aspects of the fights so the UFC should not be banned.

“I think that if we didn’t have a rematch, me and Lorenzo [Fertitta, the UFC CEO] should lose our promoters licenses,” Dana told the Mike & Mike hosts after asked about whether or not Ronda and Holly would face off again. “Yeah, the fight’s going to happen. I don’t know when, but it’s going to happen.”

Many states have banned MMA fighting because of the fatal injuries. One of those states is New York. This state is known for having popular sporting events, bringing in lots of money. Although it has lost money do to banning MMA, 68% of New York State believes MMA should be not be legalized for being too violent and dangerous (“Mixed Martial

The use of drugs date back to the ancient Olympic games. This is where the word doping originated from which was the Greek word “doop” (CITE). Performance enhancing substances also known as steroids are used for the improvement of human activity. Because drug use is also a huge thing outside the United States the International Association of Athletics Federation (IAAF) was created as the first international governing body to prohibit doping. However, at the 1960’s Olympic the first athlete to die of doping was of the name Knut Jensen. He was a Danish cyclist who was found with narcotics in his system which resulted to his death. In result, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) was established to fight doping. The United States created their own anti-doping agency called United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA). Therefore, drug testing is an important factor in professional sports world-wide.

“I'm probably not fighting again,” Malignaggi said, as reported by ESPN. “You hate to make an emotional decision. My career started in Brooklyn 14 years ago. If it ends in Brooklyn tonight, then at least I ended it at home, where I'm from, and in front of the greatest fans in the world. I've got a really good job commentating and watching great fighters fight ringside. I hope to sit around ringside for a long time.”

“…medical researchers believe that between 1 and 3 million youths and adults have taken anabolic steroids in one form or another specifically to enhance their looks or athletic performances,” stated Nuwer (Nuwer, 61). As astounding as these figures are, the number of performance drug users is steadily increasing. With this progressively increasing numbers, it is projected that millions more will use steroids in the immediate future (Newer, 61). Athletes have always sought an advantage in competition even if ignoring the law and their health if necessary. Using drugs of any sort to facilitate an athlete’s athletic ability should be illegal. The use of performance enhancing drugs is not only detrimental to the user but it also creates an

Do you want to want to become the peak athlete that you know your body is capable of? Well, this paper will not do that for you, but it will tell you how, and it will tell you why it should be legal to do so. Doping in sports is one of the most extensive debates within the realm of athletics. Whether it be injecting anabolic steroids, consuming them, or blood doping, athletes will do drugs. Doping has no effect on the viewership of the sport. Athletes can always find ways to cheat the system, and trying to prevent the use seems impossible. The use of performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) should be legalized, as long as it is allowed under medical supervision.

In what was the most anticipated Rousey bout since an undefeated Cat Zingano stepped in the Octagon with her, Correia entered UFC 190 with a purpose to dethrone the only women’s bantamweight champion in UFC history. Correia met Rousey Saturday night with an

In the days when steroids were only being used by body builders and professional wrestlers, stories about performance enhancing drugs could only be found on the back pages of the newspapers. When former Oakland Raiders All-Pro Lyle Alzado admitted to steroid use in a 1991 Sports Illustrated article the whispers about what professional athletes were using steroids began to get louder. (Puma, 2005) Finally, in 2002, when Caminiti, a former MVP, came clean, two things were clear; athletes in all sports were using these drugs, and that they worked. The fact that steroid use had permeated our national pastime combined with the media explosion of the internet and 24 hour a day sports talk created a perfect storm which created the biggest sports story of the new millennium so far. However, two other facts remained clear, performance enhancing drugs were old news, and athletes in all sports from all over the world had been using them for years.

Time limits, protective gloves, banned techniques lists, and many more were added in order for society to accept it and this allowed the UFC to advertise more as a sport instead of a blood-sport. The only problem after the UFC and MMA became legal in many states was attracting attention. In the early days the sport was not profitable due to the ban in almost all U.S states so the original owners sold the company. Dana White, Frank, and Lorenzo Fertitta “…spent $2 million to buy the Ultimate Fighting Championship…” (Anderson). White and the Fertitta brothers were millions in the hole trying to make the company profitable and were ready to sell but, than they came up with the idea of the Ultimate Fighter. The Ultimate Fighter was a reality show where a group of athletes were all put in one house where they would only focus on fighting. This show allowed people to view how the fighters trained and learn the various personalities each athlete had. The finale of this show is what resurrected the sport. The contest between Forrest Griffin and Stephan Bonnar was a “three 5-min. rounds of compelling intensity” ( Chua-Eoan et al.). In this fight both contestants put everything on the line which resulted in a brawl than an actual technical fight. This however attracted viewers for as the fight went on, viewers started tuning in. This Fight is regarded as the most important fight in UFC history (Mannion). This led to

"’The UFC and MMA in general is a steroid epidemic. They've started this really stringent testing and everybody is getting popped. They're just getting popped left and right. It's one of the things fighters have been saying for a long time, that everyone is on steroids, a huge percentage. Give a number 50, 60 [percent]. Whatever the fuck it is that are on steroids. The reality is, this whole steroid epidemic, one thing we have to recognize, the use of steroids is less than 100 years old. There's always been substances that people have taken, but the actual use of anabolic steroids in human beings is relatively recent in human history. I think as time goes on, they're going to create more powerful and crazier shit and it's going to get to the

sport, the UFC is making progress of cleaning up the sport from what it used to be.”(Smith 1).