Nick Diaz fick ett högt straff efter att ha testat positivt på cannabis vid sin match mot Anderson Silva, då han blivit avstängd i hela fem år och kommer att få böta 1,4 miljoner kronor. Nu meddelar Diaz advokat att de tänker ta fallet vidare till rätten, och detta hade Lucas K. Middlebrook att säga via ”MMAJunkie”:
This isn’t fair – this is a kangaroo court. You heard the commission’s decision wasn’t based on the facts; it wasn’t based on the evidence. One commissioner said, ‘Your attorneys were very persuasive. But you don’t respect us, so here’s a five-year ban and a ton of money that we’re going to take back.’
We’re confident that they’ll see the errors of the commission’s ways. You really have a bigger problem here. There are no standard protocols that these athletes are tested for drugs, which every athlete that’s subject to the commission should be extremely worried about that, because you’re going to get inconsistent results.
Any drug testing program in this country has standards of protocol. Go online and try to find the commission’s protocol’s. There are none. And when they do use a WADA-accredited lab, they don’t want to rely on that. So it’s very scary that there’s no review process for these athletes, that there’s no consistent protocol, and that they can be fined and lose their livelihood without any due process of law.
Hur det hela kommer att sluta återstår att se, men härnäst kan vi i alla fall se Nicks bror Nate Diaz ta sig an Michael Johnson vid ”UFC on FOX 17” den 19 december.
