WTF, is this a joke? Did you receive from a Hotmail account? If you have to ask if it's legit let me spare you the heartache. It's not. The org would have contacted you or your manager personally not by a "if this email is legit".
If so.. fuck the UFC and fuck the NSAC. I am not an anti UFC poster. But if they're literally going to dangle Wand's contract above him and say "you cannot make a living to feed your family in your profession" due to the NSAC ruling. That is completely fucked.
They should at least let him go if he will never be allowed to fight again here. It's a lot more fucked up to prevent a man from making a living.
<span class="User-132172" id="userPost51310410"><span class="User-333066" id="userPost51310313">You are now. Welcome to the resistance. <img alt="Phone Post 3.0" border="0" src="/images/phone/apple.png" style="vertical-align:middle;" /></span></span></blockquote>
<span class="User-132172" id="userPost51310410"><span class="User-333066" id="userPost51310313">Funny how the sympathy is with the cheater. Wanderlei can go get a job at home depot or something. That won't put him in breach of contract. They will need a preemployment urine sample however. <img alt="Phone Post 3.0" border="0" src="/images/phone/droid.png" style="vertical-align:middle;" /></span></span></blockquote>
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<span class="User-132172" id="userPost51310410">What kind of loser couch potato faggot thinks this way?</span></blockquote>
End of discussion. Fuck this loser troll .This dude has spent 3 pages of this thread responding to anyone and everyone.. yet, he is the ONLY person in this thread who thinks the way he does.
That's pathetic and obviously the dude has nothing better to do than to force his shitty (and wrong) opinion on others. If we don't engage him, he will go seek attention somewhere else.
Not a loser or a troll. Just wait and see, this fight will never take place (or any fight with wanderlei). The fact that you gentlemen resort to personal attacks speaks volumes. Also that you support a guy who presumably cheated his entire career.
Wanderlei didn't simply avoid a drug test. That description leaves out a whole load of crap so that Wanderlei appears to have been grossly victimized by NSAC.
For those readers interested in a reality check, shall we recount some more of the pertinent facts which are so often left out of the story?
1. Wanderlei literally fled from the authorized tester, and could not be reached by Dana While or anyone else for days.
2. When he reappeared, he told a series of lies in an attempt to avoid damage to his reputation. These lies include that the reason he fled the test was because of a language barrier (that he didn't understand what the tester was saying); that the reason he fled was because the tester did not have appropriate identification; and finally, that the real reason he fled was because he did not want to test positive for a banned substance and that he was taking an antidiuretic to heal a wrist injury (hint: anti-diuretics are never used to heal wrist injuries, EVER, but this alibi sure beats Wanderlei admitting to using testosterone or another anabolic steroid, doesnt it?).
3. For months and months, Wanderlei had mysteriously refused to sign for the fight with Chael, even though the TUF season with both as head coaches was in progress. Obviously, in retrospect, this was a failed tactic to avoid random drug testing. But it is now obvious that the reason why Wanderlei delayed signing to fight Chael was because he mistakenly thought he could not be tested by NSAC until he had actually signed for the fight.
4. Regarding the hearing when Wanderlei received his sentence, Wanderlei not only refused to attend, he also refused to even participate by phone. This is obviously a major disrespect to the commission, a slap in the face.
5. Wanderlei received an indefinite suspension, which has been commonly yet erroneously reported as a lifetime ban. But the two terms are not, in fact, synonymous.
If you're a fan of Wanderlei, you may not like reading these facts.
However, you're entitled to your own opinion, but not entitled to your own facts.
What do you love more, Wanderlei or truth? Let's find out...
Correct. While the NSAC ruling has no force in Japan, the UFC can obtain an injuntion preventing the fight. Zuffa UFC contracts state that in the event of a threatened breach the fighters agree Zuffa is entitled to "an injunction against such breach and fighter agrees to waive the right to assert any defence in any such action".
This injunction would be obtained in a Nevada Court.
So are the contracts written in a way that even if the fighter does not fight or get paid for the remainder of the contract, the fighter cant do anything about it?
Chhem - So are the contracts written in a way that even if the fighter does not fight or get paid for the remainder of the contract, the fighter cant do anything about it?
The contracts are subject to a term minimum and # of bout minimum, whichever comes sooner ends the term of the contract. The non compete provisions apply during the entire term so, yes, if the fighter is suspended but still under contract Zuffa retains the right to stop the fighter from competing in a foreign jurisdiction by way of injunction.
JoeMimic - Interesting proposition. If Wanderlei did fight in Japan while banned in the US that would probably kill any chance he had for an appeal to be won correct? I know Vitor did way back when but he seems to be the exception to the rule.
It certainly would kill any goodwill with Zuffa and expose him to legal action. I don't know any reason why it would have any bearing on his appeal of the NSAC's decision.
