Josh Barnett Has Been Released by the UFC

After a five-year stint with the UFC, veteran heavyweight Josh Barnett has been released from his contract.

Two people with knowledge of the situation, including a UFC official, informed MMAjunkie of Barnett’s release. They asked to remain anonymous because the news had not yet been made public.

Barnett’s release from his contract does not carry any stipulations and is considered a full separation from the UFC. The move comes three months after the 40-year-old fighter was exonerated by the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency for a failed drug test, receiving only a public warning from the UFC’s anti-doping partner.

t’s unclear exactly what led to Barnett’s release rather than a return to the octagon, where he most recently defeated ex-champ Andrei Arlovski at UFC Fight Night 93 in September 2016. Calls to the fighter and his management weren’t immediately returned.

Barnett expressed dismay with the results management process for his failed drug test. While he still wanted to compete, he said he didn’t trust USADA.

An out-of-competition test of Barnett revealed the presence of ostarine, a selective androgen receptor modulator (SARM) that mimics anabolic agents and is banned year-round. Although USADA found he was the victim of a contaminated supplement, he faced a four-year suspension before ultimately going to arbitration with USADA.

An independent arbitrator took note of Barnett’s meticulous record keeping of supplements and found he was not guilty of knowingly taking ostarine. Barnett later sued the supplement maker.

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Well...good news for RIZIN then.


Thoughts?

Noooo c'mon their is very clearly a ped problem in the ufc. Men dont look like gorrillas without peds. Women dont look like men without peds. Champion after champion including current champions i could name for u that r painfully obvious ped users=cheaters. Ufc cant effectively fight the problem because its too wide spread. More then half the entire roster would b suspended. The best fighters sadly i think r at the top of their game because of peds. Same in pro wrestling, boxing, bodybuilding, football, olympics you name it. They're all using because they have to because the competition is using.

Your acting like USADA made a mistake, they did not. Josh did have banned substance in his system however he blame it on a supplement. How the hell is that USADA fault?  Honestly your so gullible, I got some magic beans I like to sell you....

* Edited at 06.22.2018, 11:15 AM ET *

Honestly people are purposely being ignorant because they don't want to know the truth. Fighters are using, and then finding a supplement to blame it on. The ones who are smart aka Josh Barnett, does this in advanced, so he has a ready item to blame it on. This is not rocket science.  If you looked into it it so obvious that what Josh was doing.  There a reason he was so well documented, it because he was using PEDs. He just pissed that process was not as easy as he would like because clearly USADA does not believe him, but they legally have no choice since he was able to prove it was in a supplement that he said he was taking.  People don't understand that USADA is held to legal standard which allows fighters to use ******** loop holes like this one, that does not mean USADA made a "mistake" or "messed up".   

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Actually it very easy to argue Jon Jones needed them.  Why else would he get caught every single time he was suppose to fight Daniel Cormier?  Clearly he thought he needed thim, also does anyone remember Cormier comments after there first fight that he never felt someone so strong and could not believe how strong Jon was.  hmm I wonder why that was. Anyways so if Jones did not need them, why did he take them every single time he was to fight DC?

First DC fight, Jones has 5th of a normal mans T level (which means he was cycling) this would of been a drug test failure under USADA

second time he gets caught on PEDS and fights canceled and he blames it on **** pills (which is utter ********)

Then this last fight when Jones again popped.

that means Jon was never once clean while fighting or planning to fight DC, people should stop giving him this ******** benefit of the doubt that he be just as good, that obviously not true, because he keeps taking it every time he scheduled to fight DC even though he knows the drug testing gotten better. That in it self is evidence he would not be as good and that he clearly think he needs it. Wish people be more legit about Jon Jones instead of just ridding his nut sack like Rogan and creating conspiracy theories in there head to rationalize his failed drug tests.

* Edited at 06.22.2018, 11:43 AM ET *

No your not, you  literally whine whenever I call anyone out for PEDs. You are literally one of the biggest babies about it on the boards, but whatever keep living in your delusional world. As for the run on sentences I hope they bother the **** out of you ; )



Again, i read this, where does it say they messed up? It says just what I been saying, that barnett is blaming it on a tainted supplement. Which is what he did which allows him to get off the hook. Nothing in the article is disputing my claim and as I said your gullible as **** if you actually think he was clean. He found substance he can blame his drug failure on, it as simple as that. You can believe them all you want, but your just being extremely naive.  

* Edited at 06.22.2018, 3:34 PM ET *

More then one fighter has used the "tainted supplements" excuse.
I'm not buying it. It's weak!