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The Canadian press has an article with some quick news and notes which you can read here

Some of the more interesting things they point out is that Brandon Vera nearly walked away with as much money for losing as Anderson Silva did for winning. However, don't forget that those are just released earnings and who knows how that shakes out with bonuses factored in the equasion.

Also, the article mentions that from 03/31 to 09/30 in the state of California there have been 43 drug test failures in the state of California. That spans 100 shows and includes steroids and street drugs.
Now where you can say that MMA has a drug problem is that 33 of those failures were MMA fighters, 8 were boxers and 2 were kick boxers. The article contains a further breakdown of how many people tested for what.

Thanks to Mike Informer for passing that on.

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We have the first ever induction in to the Combat Hooligans Hall of moronity

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I don't know if moronity is a word or not, but it is now, I'm a writer and I can do that.

We'll see if Ric laughs as hard about this as I did.

Remember Adam Smith the guy who tested positive for both Marijuana and Cocaine at the Strikeforce at the Mansion show on Sept. 29?

Well, his steroids test came back and he tested positive for anabolic agents for metabolites of both Nandrolone and Stanozolol. This is according to California State Athletic Commission spokesman Bill Douglas.
Douglas also says that Smith is the first fighter to fail for both performance enhancing drugs and street drugs in the same exam.

Now, if you total up his suspensions and fines, he is out for 21 months and out 4,000. Yes, this is the man who earned exactly $500 to fight on this show. It should also be noted that all of those drugs did him no good because he lost his match against Duey Cooper.

Do I even need remind you that in California every fighter is tested on every show, so Smith knew the test was coming when he did all of those drugs, and he knew he was going to fail when he was tested. Although given he was coked and high and on roids he might not have even known his own name, which means it is fortunate his name isn't Saltalamaccia or something like that.

I want the guy who once commented that I was too harsh on these guys for calling them morons and told me I needed to get a life to come back and defend Adam Smith.

I will set up future rules for the Hall of Moronity and I'm sure we'll induct a class periodically and probably have a pannel of voters. However, in the case of Smith, I'm making him the first inductee, I'm the only one that gets to vote (as if you could possibly have voted against this anyway) and he goes in all by himself.

The Hall of Moronity inductees:

1. Adam Smith

I'll say this much, he earned it.

Other than Smith's 2 failures and Bill Mahood's testing for performance enhancers, everyone else was great.

Credit: MMAWeekly

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Update on UFC 76 drug testing

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Last week, Kazuhiro Nakamura was revealed as the only one of the 18 competitors at UFC 76 to test positive for recreational drugs, failing for Marijuana.

We have results for 6 of the 18 fighters in the performance enhancing tests.

Michihiro Omigawa, Matt Wiman, Scott Junk, Christian Wellisch, Diego Saraiva and Jeremy Stevens all came back clean.

The results for the other 12 will be mad available later by the California State Athletic commission.

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We may have a new candidate in the race for top moron, and another joins the parade

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Newest inducty in to the parade is Virgil Zwicker who tested positive for Marijuana prior to his 8/24 bout for Galaxy productions against Ty Montgomery. Zwicker was the victor in the bout but that's going to be of little satisfaction as he's suspended until 11/22 and fined $500.

However, Montgomery is a special kind of moron, known as the repeat offender. I'm not going to say that he and Zwicker got high together before the fight but given that he also tested positive, it is at least possible if not very funny.
He's suspended until 08/31/2008 at which point he can apply before the CSAC to have his MMA license reinstated. It was revoked because to go along with his testing positive on 08/24, he also tested positive for marijuana in September 2006 and was disciplined again in March of this year for getting in a physical altercation with the event's matchmaker during the weigh-in. On top of that he got a $2,500 fine.


Babalu, Ty Montgomery and Kevin Randleman should open a camp. On a previous season of TUF, they had Team No Love. This could be Team No Clue.

As I found Montgomery's Sherdog profile, I see his nickname is "Bossman" Well, if he's anything like the Big Bossman, we're firmly in the evil stages of his career.

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CSAC makes a couple of rulings post-pones a couple

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At the CSAC meeting on monday...

1. Hermes Franca's 1-year suspension was upheld
   
2. Sean Sherk and Phil Baroni were granted extensions of their appeals.
   
3. Hong Man Choi was denied a license to fight in California

*Hong Man Choi's denial stems from his attempt to get licensed to fight Brock Lesnar at K-1/EXC Dynamite USA on June 2.

**The Franca-Sherk suspensions were handed down after they tested positive for performance enhancing substances at UFC 73 on July 7.

***Baroni tested positive for steroids at Strikeforce/EXC Judgment Day on June 22.