FRANK MIR GETS SUSPENDED FOR 2 YEARS AND ASKS FOR UFC RELEASE
Las Vegas, NV (July 6th, 2016)– On Monday on the MMA Hour while being interviewed by Ariel Helwani, UFC legend, Frank Mir, 37, announced that he has been suspended for two years for failing a USADA drug test.
“Well as of right now USADA… I have the two year suspension starting in April, so I guess in April of 2018 I’d be available to fight again in the UFC, and even more as troubling as that is they also have it to where I can’t do any broadcasting. Not that I was gonna get in there, because I’ve been asking for several years since the WEC to be put into rotation, and now, you know, it looks like they still won’t. Now they have more reason to not put me in the rotation so, right now maybe possible being released by the UFC so I can go off and pursue my career in other avenues.”
Helwani then asked if he would appeal.
“I didn’t see any advantage, I didn’t see really a course of action that would have been conclusive or really had any percentages as far as my side to be able to win. Basically you know, they came and grabbed the supplements – and at first I was under the impression that they were gonna test them – and then they notified me that ‘No,’ just kind of right along the thought process that when they said that I could be present when the B sample was was opened in the same lab again, in Tokyo. But, it would be my responsibility to get down there. That’s when I brought up again ‘Well, why don’t you guys send it to a lab here in the U.S. that’s WADA approved that’s a little bit easier, more convenient for me to attend? It would accomplish many goals. 1, it would be a different lab technician different lab, completely, working on the sample, and B, (sic) little bit easier for me to get to Salt Lake City or whatnot than it is for me to get to to Tokyo.’
“And so, even with the samples they said ‘Well, we collected them but it’s up to you. If you want to test them, you have to foot the bill and pay for it out of pocket.’ Same with getting an attorney to represent me. It started looking very expensive for me to fight, and at the end of the day it was, I’m still suspended. I’m not allowed to fight or broadcast, I’m gonna have to think about my savings as something I have to sit back on and I have children. So I had to make a calculated decision to go ahead and forgo trying to battle it anymore. And basically now just even if it was a reduced sentence of only one year, I have children that are very active and are in private school and different endeavors, and fighting and no kind of work whatsoever for a year, let alone two years it’s not feasible. So hopefully the UFC then you know, would just release me so I can go off and follow broadcasting and fighting in different avenues.”
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