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What should we do with the details and potential benefits of the Jon Jones USADA case? What will happen to Fabricio Werdum? And do we have a pretty fun competition to attract attention?
All this and more in this week's Twitter Mailbag. To ask a question, tweet to @BenFowlkesMMA.
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[Original tweet: https://twitter.com/HumbleMrRecker/status/1042571886599852032]
I do not blame you for conspiracy paranoia. There are a few things that do not exactly match, although the exact timing of the suspension is the least of them.
Jon Jones was facing a possible four-year ban. The US Anti-Doping Agency took 30 months of leave in exchange for "substantial assistance" under the "Doping" clause of the Anti-Doping Policy. That brought it back to 18 months, which USADA was asking for during arbitration.
Instead, the referee, who felt that Jones had been "humiliated and humiliated by experience but learned from his misfortune," gave up three months, saying Jones was "a very credible person and well-meaning ". and well sense. "
That's how we ended up with 15 months, so Jones is eligible for UFC 230 at Madison Square Garden. Will the UFC come back? Hard to say. At the time of writing these lines, UFC President Dana White has done nothing but deny it.
It is quite possible that the UFC has begun planning an 18-month suspension in early 2019, after hearing that the USADA would reduce the possible suspension by 30 months due to "l". Jones' assistance. plan now, but it would probably be very hasty.
Again, I could see why you might want to book Jones for a quick return, before he finds a way to get himself off the hook again.
[Original tweet: https://twitter.com/TCampbell1980/status/1042592514035855365]
We need to know more about the exact nature of "assistance" that Jones has agreed to provide to USADA in exchange for most of its potential suspension. It seems difficult to claim at the same time that you know nothing about the drugs you have been accused of using, but you know the drugs that other people use.
Is that what Jones did here? Again, it's not quite clear yet. But you have to wonder how "snitching" would be realistic in MMA.
In a sport like athletics, you could denounce a coach and the anti-doping agency could get her out of the top level of the sport. But in the MMA, where only the UFC has an agreement with USADA and where relations between athletes and coaches can be extremely amorphous and unofficial, it could be much more difficult to take meaningful action .
[Original tweet: https://twitter.com/joervaldez/status/1042551972455428096]
First of all, I bet you will earn money now that Fabricio Werdum will fight again. I do not know if it will be in the UFC or the Bellator, or if it will be in a cage somewhere in Chechnya, but I'm pretty sure it will not just disappear like that.
Secondly, for me, Werdum will probably always be the guy who defeated Fedor Emelianenko when no one did it. I was at this Strikeforce event and I remember seeing it as it was another summary execution of the "Last Emperor". I also remember Werdum with his team at the hotel all week, sometimes to the horror of the hotel 's guests and staff. I remember thinking that he seemed to be in a good mood for a dead person.
Then he came out, fell right away and somehow locked a submission to which even Emelianenko could not escape. After that, he immediately started to party as hard as I ever saw a fight party. It went well at night and involved Forest Whitaker in a way.
So yes, I think of Werdum when I want to create a happy memory. It's only when I think of all the other things – his love of anti-gay insults, his intimate relationship with a brutal dictator, this suspension of doping – that I am sad.
[Original tweet: https://twitter.com/okeeffesimon/status/1042466288898121729]
Excellent question to which I can only answer: he panicked better.
As a person who has spent 99 cents to buy Tyron Woodley's single, I will claim my money if do not use it as walkout music for his next fight. And you know what? I think even iTunes will see the inevitable logic in my position. So, if the artist known as TWoodley wants to keep my money, he has to do the right thing here.
Also, just say? The rescue dancers would not be hurt.
[Original tweet: https://twitter.com/threeagainst4/status/1042522741830692864]
There was a lot of backlash, depending on who you spoke to. I even wrote about it before the fight.
Was it as important or ongoing as the answer to Greg Hardy? I do not know. These are somewhat different situations, at least in terms of how they think about the UFC. With Floyd Mayweather, as you pointed out, it all existed in a whole other sport, even though the end result was a group of MMA fans who gave their money to a series of female assailants.
With Hardy, the problem is that the UFC strives to support and support the nascent career of a man who has never really ever acknowledged or apologized for his role in incidents of domestic violence.
Until now, what we have seen are the UFC's attempts to sell this as a story of inspiring redemption. The trouble is that it misses the part where there is a regret, a responsibility or even an obvious personal growth. And these are very important parts, since this is what separates the redemption from ignorance and progression.
[Original tweet: https://twitter.com/tmurf22/status/1042522109770178560]
[Original tweet: https://twitter.com/AntEvansUFC/status/1042545207462383616]
Ant, you got my attention as soon as I saw the photo of the 10th planet team looking extremely on the mark. You launch Kazushi Sakuraba and Urijah Faber and this softens the market for me.
[Original tweet: https://twitter.com/PeteyandJia/status/1042526238336851978]
Dana White got stuck on Twitter sometime after he got upset about the title of a column that he later acknowledged did not read. So, it's not bad at all. I can not say that it made my Twitter experience much worse.
[Original tweet: https://twitter.com/SkipSkipSkatoo/status/1042453501488623616]
It is too early to say what will become boxing naked. But you are right to say that this seems popular with many fighters who have mostly aged from the elite level of MMA, but still have some name and a desire to make money with their fists.
Honestly, one of the things that surprised me most in writing about the resurgence of boxing naked was how much most fighters were enthusiastic. They loved the challenge and the experience, but they also liked being part of the entire lineage, feeling as if John L. Sullivan was reborn.
Will this disappear, with the allure of novelty for fans? May be. But we are still early enough in the process to know for sure.
Ben Fowlkes is the columnist MMAjunkie and USA TODAY. Follow him on Twitter at @BenFowlkesMMA. Twitter Mailbag appears every Thursday on MMAjunkie.
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