FO: Overeem "will not be proceeding w/his license"

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News via Fighter's Only:

The decision to remove Alistair Overeem from next week's bout with Junior Dos Santos was not the Dutchman's. Overeem's team had been "one hundred per cent" confident that he would be able to get a license for the UFC 146 title shot against Junior Dos Santos.

That was despite him failing a random urine test administered by surprise late March. The Nevada State Athletic Commission test found Overeem's testosterone/epitestosterone ratio to be 14:1 - they allow an upper limit of 6:1.

Nonetheless Overeem was sure his "reasonable explanation" would satisfy the commission at next week's license application hearing. Fighters Only sources say that Overeem was to present paperwork to show he had been undergoing Testosterone Replacement Therapy.

As TRT is classed as a medication he wouldn't need to declare it until his license application and so he was under no obligation to reveal it when the random test was administered in March, although NSAC may find it curious that anyone legitimately undergoing TRT wouldn't bother mentioning it.

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Now he will not be proceeding with his license application - but there may still be trouble ahead for him. According to NSAC regulation NAC 467.014 Application for license: Request for withdrawal:

1. An applicant for a license may file a written request with the Commission to withdraw his or her application at any time before final action upon the application by the Commission.

2. In making a determination on a request to withdraw an application, the Commission may, in its discretion:

(a) Deny the request; or

(b) Grant the request with or without prejudice.

3. If the request for withdrawal is granted with prejudice, the applicant is not eligible to apply again for licensing until 1 year after the date the Commission grants the request.

And so if Overeem's request to have his license application disregarded is seen as particularly suspicious, he may end up being banned from Nevada for a year anyway. However, the chances are that his application will be quietly terminated and this clause will not be brought into play.
  http://www.fightersonlymag.com/content/news/16047-overeem-pull-out-was-not-his-decision

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Best of luck to Alistair battling this dangerous affliction.

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Mad Xyientist - Best of luck to Alistair battling this dangerous affliction.




lol

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TTT!

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Mad Xyientist - Best of luck to Alistair battling this dangerous affliction.


 haha

MX is in the house!

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Whole thing is unfortunate. Phone Post

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the fight could happen in the fall if the nsac doesnt ban him for a year.  if the documentation for trt therapy is good he should simply proceed with the application... if they deny his request for exemption then all he has to do is piss clean (mask properly) next time he's tested and all should be fine.

they should not cancel the application.
 

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Can someone explain TRT injections to those of us that are unfamiliar?

Isn't the idea that the person has so little test that an injection will bring them up to the standard level and allow them to be 'normal'

Even assuming we all believe the explanation 100% and he'd only had an injection a couple of days before, he still shouldn't have tested at 14:1 , should he?

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MMALOGIC - the fight could happen in the fall if the nsac doesnt ban him for a year.  if the documentation for trt therapy is good he should simply proceed with the application... if they deny his request for exemption then all he has to do is piss clean (mask properly) next time he's tested and all should be fine.

they should not cancel the application.
 


 Do you know how testosterone and muscle growth works?  You don't put on 70lbs of rip with a testosterone deficiency.  If he started taking it when he was a 205'er than he lied during all of his previous licensing. 

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MMALOGIC - the fight could happen in the fall if the nsac doesnt ban him for a year.  if the documentation for trt therapy is good he should simply proceed with the application... if they deny his request for exemption then all he has to do is piss clean (mask properly) next time he's tested and all should be fine.

they should not cancel the application.
 




They better hurry up and get the wheels moving on his treatment, poor little overreem is wasting away.

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Overreem's balls have clearly stopped working. It's a god damned travesty.