Sherk, Franca fail CSAC drug tests

Sean Sherk tested positive for Mandrolone Metabolite after his July 7 fight with Hermes Franca where he successfully defended his UFC lightweight title. The CSAC has fined him $2,500 and has suspended him for a year. Sherk is expected to appeal the suspension and should he lose, I don't see any way that the UFC keeps the lightweight title on him. If for no other reason than it is not good to have the belt out of commission for 1 entire year.

As for Franca, he tested positive for Drostanolone and is also being fined and suspended $2,500 and 1 year. He issued a statement confessing to the failure and explaining that he took the drug to help heel an ankle injury about 8 weeks prior to his fight with Sherk.

In California the Athletic Commission does not have the power to over-turn an official decision like the Nevada State Athletic Commission does.

All UFC fighters on the Sacramento event were drug tested but not all the results have been made available yet. However, we know that Mark Bocek, Frank Edgar, Jason Gilliam and Chris Lytle have all passed their tests.

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Astin being investigated for over prescribing medication to Johnny Grunge?

This thing just keeps opening wider and wider. This part won't have too much impact on WWE necessarily but Dr. Phil Astin's life is getting harder these days.

The Atlanta Journal Constitution reports an investigation is under way in to the role Astin may have played in the death of Mike Durham, AKA Johnny Grunge.

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Phil Baroni's camp comments on failure...and they should've just kept quiet

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The phrases, "It was really fucking stupid", "I'm sorry for fucking up so bad", and "I promise it will not happen again" are all mysteriously absent.

I loved this part however:

Phil did not knowingly ingest these drugs, which we are told are veterinary in nature.

So, I guess what happened is our man Art got hold of some veterinary steroids cooked them up in some brownies and shipped them to ol' Phil before the fight. Seriously, how could you be so stupid as to intake this kind of stuff without knowing it?

All these comments did was ensure that the savaging on the next podcast will be even more brutal than it was going to be before.

For this, I'm glad they made the statement.

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and the next person for the CARE team to savage on a podcast is...

Phil Baroni who failed his pre-fight drug test for his June 22 fight with Frank Shamrock.

Frank Shamrock, Cung Le and Tony Fryklund all passed. The only other failure on the card was Carter Williams for cocaine.

Baroni is suspended a year and fined $2,500.

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Wife of Wrestler who died young speaks out about the Business

Debbie Fernandez, wife of the late Ray "Hercules" Fernandez has written This piece about the wrestling industry.

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Melvin Guillard has a new training partner

Carter Williams tests positive for cocaine

Williams lost in a heavyweight bout at last Friday's Strikeforce/EXC show to Paul Buentello.

This man is very stupid.

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Roundtable Recap: UFC 72

Today's roundtable was not without problems which we'll get to in a moment.

Theoretically, the standings should look like this.

1. Ric Gillespie (8-0)
2. Euan Taylor (7-1)
2. Wade Wallenstein (7-1)
4. Casey Trowbridge (6-2)
4. Scott Liedle (6-2)
6. Art Shimko (4-4)

Why do I say theoretically? Well, the post predictions column drug test results are in (our labs work fast) and it seems that there has been an unexpected rash of failures around the Old Country.

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First up, the drug results for Euan Taylor came back. It is not surprising that Euan was found to have high levels of mustard in his system, but he also tested positive for being a lazy bastard who doesn't deserve the vacation he's on, and for having an accent that is worthy of the fun Ric and I make at his expense. Trace levels of sheep hormones were discovered as well, but not as much as you'd expect.

Next up is Wade Wallenstein, who tested positive for being a lucky guesser and for being driven mad by all the ECW he used to have to cover on the site.

Scott Liedle didn't test positive for anything, but still managed to fail the test anyway...cause he fails every test he's ever taken.

Art Shimko. Art's test came back positive for lots of drugs, in fact the lab found his urine sample to contain nothing but drugs...and no amount of urine was actually found. Either Art was really busy last night or sent in the wrong vile and quite frankly it actually could be both.

Ric Gillespie...elevated Estrogen levels were found, and when asked about it, he admitted to taking pink pills to try and cover it up. He also tested positive for "Ponk little gay", and "Vorse than Hulk Hogan" but this is explained by his nearly constant companion Sheiky!

Mysteriously, yours truly was not drug tested. I don't know how this happened because I'm the one in charge of making sure everyone is tested. I think it is because I'm not in a country with an athletic commission I couldn't find the legal something or rather to do the thing that would allow myself to be tested. Its the same kind of situation that made Melvin Guillard wish he had fought at UFC 70 instead of Fight Night 9 back in April.

The OCAC has ruled that all who failed the drug test are suspended from making predictions for a period of 10 seconds and are docked 1,000 percent of their $0.00 purse that they usually get for making picks. Its tough but highly unfair.

The Commission is still trying to decide if these picks should be stricken from the record. They're still trying to decide who's performance was enhanced by their particular failures, and they've not yet found a big enough whore to sleep with them all to make that determination. Maybe when Paris Hilton gets out of jail.

Perhaps the guilty parties will comment on their plite in the comments section of this post.

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Boxing News and Notes for 06/15

Some of these might be older stories, and I'll not post a lot today...but I want to get in to the habbit of posting boxing news, and the best way to do that is to start doing it.

Hector "Macho" Camacho (who when I was much younger I thought was boxing's version of Randy Savage just cause of the name) sentenced to 7 years for burglary of course he could never see the inside of a jail cell.

When boxer Diego Corrales crashed his motorcycle and died awhile back he was really, really, really drunk Showtime paid tribute to him on last Saturday's card.

Armando Garcia of the CSAC has been busy lately It seems that both James Tony and his May 24 opponent Danny Batchelder tested positive for steroids after their fight. You don't often see fights where both men fail. These guys must've been hanging out with Royce Gracie and Johnnie Morton.

There is a fight that intrigues me because of the names involved. Paulie Malignaggi Vs. Lovemore N'dou. Lovemore N'dou may be the greatest name since God Shamgod. Hey, I'm not really up on all of what's going on in boxing right now, and with the weight classes being organized beyond all comprehension and the fact there are a jillion titles...the kind of analysis you're going to get from me for awhile is that Lovemore N'dou is a great name.

So many jokes to make about this story that I just don't know where to start.

How about throwing this quote at you.

"Thanks for those who supported a convict like me," Siriporn said at a press conference after her release. "Some may not agree but I don't care. I am happy
that there are people willing to support me. I like to thank all the officials as well."

and that's not even the funniest thing you'll read.

I can't top that story today and I may never be able to do so which worries me since my boxing coverage is in its earliest stages.

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Royce Gracie tests positive for steroids

Yes, its not just the Johnnie Morton's of the world. Here are the details. I wonder if this won't be the end of the line for Gracie?

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Johnnie Morton fails drug test in spectacular fashion

You don't see failures like this every day. Well, I guess if you're going to fail better to be spectacular at it.

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CSAC indefinitely suspends Johnnie Morton

According to this from Sherdog.com. It seems he refused to take his post-fight drug test. He probably argued that he clearly didn't use performance enhancers based on the fight outcome.

Someone get this man signed up with the new Melvin Guillard, Nick Diaz, Ricco Rodriguez camp.

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Melvin Guillard suspended 8 months by NSAC

the details he was suspended 8 months and fined 2100 dollars which is 30 percent of his purse.

Click the link to read his excuse, it is classic.

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OC Times Exclusive: All 20 fighters at UFC 70 fail drug tests.

Manchester UK - The Ultimate Fighting Championship recently held a card at the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester that wowed the crowd with an exciting finish to the main event of Mirko Cro Cop Vs. Gabriel Gonzaga. It also wowed all of the sports analysts when it was announced that all 20 men fighting on the card tested positive for Marijuana.



"It is not hard to see why this happened", said a person who requested only to be known as A. Shimko as he was busy preparing defense letters for UFC fighter Melvin Guillard's upcoming appearance in front of the Nevada State Athletic Commission for testing positive for Cocaine. "Just look at when the show was held, so close to 4-20 UFC was just asking for it."

When reached for comment regarding the fact that this was the first show in history where everyone failed the drug test, UFC President Dana White offered the following quote. "I don't usually test all the guys fighting on a show. But, we tested 6 of them and all the results came back positive for Marijuana. So, I decided to test 4 more and the same fucking thing happened. So I was like fuck shit fucking fuck shit fucker fuck fuck and tested the rest. Un fucking real, they all tested positive. I fuck shouldn't fuck have fuck tested fuck all fuck those fuck fucking fuck guys fuck fuck you fucking know? Fuck shit, damn hell ass fuck shit fuck fuck...Rochelle Leah fuck fuck fuck!"

A spectator who watched the show at his home offered these unusual comments. "I can't believe that Machida and Heath didn't test positive for something much stronger, I mean they looked like they were fighting on another plain with their boring fuck fest. I don't personally see why they are making a big deal of this failure I mean...excuse me, a case of mustard has arrived at my door and I must take care of it."

It is expected that all the fights will be ruled a no contest and Ric Gillespie will be called a ponk little gay.

***The above story, while probably true is likely also a parity that I made up***

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Late Thursday Notes

It seems that Kit Cope got a positive on the steroids test
That reminds me of how in the famous Sheiky shoot he tells how he told Vince McMahon that a positive test was good only to find out it was "bad".

Speaking of positives:
Kurt Angle is positively insane #1
Kurt Angle is positively insane #2
How many years will pass before we've replaced the Sheikies with the Angles?

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More trouble for Nastula

Seems he tested positive for quite the number of stimulants.

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2 fighters fail drug tests

They were both losers on last Saturday's Pride show. A lot of good it did them.

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