Många har ifrågasatt Nick Diaz skyhöga straff då han blev avstängd i fem år samt får böta 1,4 miljoner kronor för att ha testat positivt på cannabis, vid hans match mot Anderson Silva under UFC 183. Silva testade själv positivt på steroider vid mötet men kom undan med bara ett års avstängning, och nu har organisationens bantamviktsmästarinna Ronda Rousey tagit till orda gällande hela händelsen via ”MMAJunkie”:
I’m sorry, I know no one asked me anything but I have to say something. It’s so not right for Diaz to be suspended five years for marijuana. I’m against them testing for any weed at all. It’s not a performance-enhancing drug. It has nothing to do with athletic competition, and it’s only tested for political reasons so they say, ‘Oh, it’s only for your safety so you’re not hurting yourself when you’re out there.’ So why don’t they test for all the other things that could possibly hurt us that we could be under the influence of while we’re out there?
It’s so unfair if one person tests for steroids that could actually really hurt a person and the other person smokes a plant that makes them happy and he gets suspended for five years, whereas the guy that could hurt someone gets a slap on the wrist. It’s not fair. It’s not fair at all. It doesn’t make me a bad person for saying it, it just – I can’t believe it’s not being said more. I think they really should free Nick Diaz, but it’s not UFC Dana White’s decision either.
I don’t think marijuana should be part of the conversation at all. I think it’s an invasion of privacy for them to test for it, and they have no right.
Härnäst ser vi Ronda inne i oktagonen då hon tar sig an Holly Holm vid UFC 193 den 15 november, en match som kommer att gå av stapeln i Australien.
