https://nitter.net/aaronbronsteter/status/1712211098764501027
(can someone help me make a nitter link please?)
In order for McGregor to be eligible via USADA, he'd have to wait 6 months. On October 9th, the UFC representative was like "Iunno bout allat."
As someone with many years of combat sport experience with a little MMA alongside a working knowledge of MMA in the UFC and otherwise, it's quite the meme to have people not get USADA tested. Of all the problems with fight prep, I would have put dehydration for weight cutting at the highest problem over USADA testing. It's apparently annoying, but for a sport whose history includes people juiced to the gills, it seems like the superior alternative to allow people to fight without jeopardizing their health. When the UFC pays out so poorly, it's not really worth your health for a lot of would be fighters. It's also why you can't kick to the head on the ground. Sure, there are times that the combat sports shows its sportiness with unrealistic exchanges and sometimes it gets abused by people waiting to be stood back up, but if it means people are cracking each others orbital bones, it's a respectful addition for the fighters.
As a lefty, It seems like the enshittification continues. Can't afford to properly test fighters because McGregor needs to come back NOW. Now fighters are going to be stood back up by a ref so they can use their uber muscles to break another man's orbital bone with a giga punch.
