$2.5 Million Cheater Is Ruining the UFC, But Did They Allow It?

I said this would happen before UFC 200:

$2.5 Million to a man who used his raslin' credentials to get him into MMA. Sure, Brock Lesnar was an All-American wrestler in college, but that was over a decade before his debut against Frank Mir in 2007. When he retired from MMA and went back to the WWE, most MMA fans were happy to see him go. When he announced his return in June, some fans were suspicious whether or not Lesnar was serious or just testing the waters of MMA again. He was also exempt from any form of drug testing that is mandatory for all fighters that compete. Exempt because of a USADA bi-law that exists (and was conveniently enforced by Dana White to sell more tickets, I'm sure) because the UFC and WWE had to work out a contract that would allow Lesnar to fight at UFC 200 while maintaining his WWE status. Mark Hunt, his announced opponent for UFC 200, expressed his concerns with this before the event and was ignored by the UFC and mocked by Lesnar. Brock replied to Hunt's concerns with the comment, "I'm a white-boy and I'm jacked. Deal with it." Yet here we are, talking about a doping violation that will have Lesnar rigorously drug-screened over the next few months. He will be screened as an MMA fighter even though he will be competing at SummerSlam (a WWE pay-per-view event) within the next month. 

I said this would come out before the event took place. Jon Jones was pulled from the main event two days before he was set to unify his light-heavyweight title against bitter rival Daniel Cormier because of an "alleged" banned substance found in a urine sample that was administered mid-June. That fight alone was worth the price of admission. The UFC gave Cormier preferential treatment and his opponent was, instead, Anderson Silva who was 7 weeks removed from gallbladder surgery and had not trained for months. So Jon Jones, their #1 All-Time Fighter according to their countdown leading up to UFC 200 entitled "The 200 Greatest Fighters of All Time" missed out on millions of dollars. (Reports later indicated it could have been an 8-figure payout) On top of that, Meisha Tate had her biggest payday at UFC 200 and still only made $100,000. That's less than 5% of what the suspected cheating "WWE Superstar" Brock Lesnar made and he isn't even a ranked fighter like Tate. (Meisha Tate was the Batamweight Women's Champion until Amanda Nunes took home the strap at UFC 200 after submitting Tate in the first round) If a champion who is headlining the self-proclaimed "Greatest Card Ever" is making less than the rest of the fighters competing that night, something is wrong. The UFC is officially a hypocritical organization that is getting hard to stomach. With more and more fighters that are top caliber, world-class athletes making the switch to Bellator, it's not hard to see why.

Click the link below for Mark Hunt's own words and his ultimatum to the UFC:

http://www.foxsports.com/ufc/story/ufc-mark-hunt-erupts-after-brock-lesnar-flagged-for-potential-doping-violation-071616

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