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11-03-2008, 02:39 PM
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Leben Fails Drug Test
Wrestling Observer/Figure Four Online -- WWE, TNA, UFC and International Wrestling and MMA Headlines - Recent main eventer tests positive, out 9 months
Recent main eventer tests positive, out 9 months
Chris Leben tested positive for Stanazolol in a test administered by UFC on the day of his fight with Michael Bisping on 10/18 in Birmingham, England.
Leben, who lost a three-round decision, has been suspended for nine months by UFC and fined one-third of his undisclosed purse.
When informed of his positive test, Leben admitted using the drug but said it was months back and thought it would have cleared his system.
Leben is the second fighter to fail a UFC administered drug test as opposed to an athletic commission test. The UFC shows in the U.K. are not governed by an athletic commission, so Marc Ratner, the company's Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, who had years of experience as the head of the Nevada commission, oversees the event, doing many of the jobs that an athletic commission would do.
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11-03-2008, 02:42 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by bma44
Wrestling Observer/Figure Four Online -- WWE, TNA, UFC and International Wrestling and MMA Headlines - Recent main eventer tests positive, out 9 months
Recent main eventer tests positive, out 9 months
Chris Leben tested positive for Stanazolol in a test administered by UFC on the day of his fight with Michael Bisping on 10/18 in Birmingham, England.
Leben, who lost a three-round decision, has been suspended for nine months by UFC and fined one-third of his undisclosed purse.
When informed of his positive test, Leben admitted using the drug but said it was months back and thought it would have cleared his system.
Leben is the second fighter to fail a UFC administered drug test as opposed to an athletic commission test. The UFC shows in the U.K. are not governed by an athletic commission, so Marc Ratner, the company's Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, who had years of experience as the head of the Nevada commission, oversees the event, doing many of the jobs that an athletic commission would do.
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Cool. I hated leben.... then learned to respect him as a fighter.... and now, I've tossed all that respect out the window again.
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11-03-2008, 02:42 PM
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not suprised
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11-03-2008, 02:43 PM
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Wow, that's really really surprising. I just lost the respect I had left for him if that's true.
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11-03-2008, 02:44 PM
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It happens. Learn your lesson, do your time and come back ready to fight.
At least he admitted it
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11-03-2008, 02:44 PM
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i guess that explains the newly buff leben... bummer for him.
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11-03-2008, 02:45 PM
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well, I guess the UFC is really testing in the UK. 
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11-03-2008, 02:45 PM
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Man, he looked so much more ripped than he ever had before. I guess this explains it.
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11-03-2008, 02:45 PM
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Link didn't work for me but if true kind of cool how Leben admits to it and says he thought it was out of his system.
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11-03-2008, 02:46 PM
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fucking hell man
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