Dana White On Wednesday morning in Las Vegas, UFC executives are expected to stand up in a ballroom at Red Rock Casino and announce, well, something to do with drug testing and the future of anti-doping efforts in MMA’s most prominent organization. Exactly what that something will be is still unclear, but according to UFC President Dana White it will be a frank conversation to address “all the things that have happened lately, and what we’re going to do, and what’s going to happen from here on out.” Ask U.S. Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) CEO Travis Tygart what the UFC should do, and he’ll tell you it’s “really a no-brainer,” especially for an organization that’s been plagued by bad news about failed drug tests of late. “They’re at a critical crossroads, I think, where the sport potentially dies on the vine if you don’t address the problem in a serious fashion,” Tygart told MMAjunkie. “I think they should do what 400-plus sport organizations around the world have done … which is to adopt the world anti-doping (WADA) code as its policy that applies from the top down.” According to several sources who spoke with MMAjunkie on the condition of anonymity, that’s exactly what the UFC was close to doing as recently as late last year.
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Comprehensive drug testing? The UFC ‘can’t afford not to do it,’ experts say – MMA Junkie