Fact or Fiction: Drug Testing and UFC
It is time for another edition of Coors Light Cold Hard Facts (because Bud Light doesn't pay me). Past discussions of Facts (not actual facts) and Fictions (more predictions and speculation, really), concerned UFC's business decline in mid-2014 (boy, was I wrong on that one) and cable & satellite providers' distaste for WWE Network (three out of four correct; much better). The discussion centers on UFC again, but this time to discuss a topic that bridges business and competition: UFC fighters failing drug tests. Fact or Fiction: UFC business is being hurt by recent drug test failures Fiction. (At least for now.) There are two angles for looking at the effect of drug test failures on UFC business: losing fights and alienating fans. They obviously haven't lost any fights yet. (Though World Series of Fighting -- and has there ever been a successful sports venture besides baseball [and poker is not a sport] to use "World Series" in its name? --