Dana White, the president of Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) put efforts to defend the anti-doping policy of this organization. According to the UFC, their strictest steroid-testing program is in North America. Is it actually true? Sometimes it seems that only foolish fighters are caught using banned drugs by the UFC.
There are certain organizations that criticize the drug-testing policy of the UFC harshly. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA), the United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) and the Canadian Centre for Ethics in Sport (CCES) are chief agencies that criticize anti-doping policy of the UFC. But why do they do it? Of course, they struggle for own interests. They try to manage drug testing in all professional and amateur sport leagues in the whole world. It is not a secret that steroid testing is a business that is profitable. Since they haven’t tested fighters for banned medications, they have lost a lot of money.
But there are also several actual problems linked with the UFC drug-testing program that should be discussed. Travis Tygart, the CEO of the WADA, claims that drug testing of the UFC is not proper. Of course the WADA has the most appropriate anti-doping protocol. The UFC drug-testing policy can’t be even compared with that of the UFC. Travis Tygart claims that the UFC put efforts to look better than they are in reality. Travis Tygart confirms that it is quite ironically that the UFC defends own steroid testing program and doesn’t want to have the same or just similar principles as the WADA has.
Major League Baseball did an immense mistake, claiming that steroids represent a great problem in this sport. So, it was hurt positive public impression about baseball. As for the National Football League, it was created perception that their anti-doping policy has been very effective.
A question appears: Is Dana White able to display that there is no steroid problem in the UFC?
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