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Was Conor McGregor’s leg already injured before he stepped into the cage against Dustin Poirier at UFC 264? If it was, the Nevada Athletic Commission didn’t know anything about it,
“If we ever knowingly had information a fighter wasn’t fit to fight, we wouldn’t let them compete,” NAC head Bob Bennett told the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “It would go to a doctor and a doctor would make that decision as the expert.”
McGregor has been putting up images and videos to back up his claim that the leg injury he suffered against Poirier was one he carried into the fight and not the result of checked kicks on Poirier’s part.
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She could have make that should have been a breakout star in an Olympics desperate for any kind of positive jolt. Sha Carri Richardson has the look and she has the goods, and it wasn’t out of the question to picture her walking around Tokyo with a pair of gold medals draped around her neck.
That it won’t happen is as much Richardson’s fault as it is the doing of arcane doping rules. A few puffs of marijuana wouldn’t have helped her win the 100-meter race at the Tokyo Olympics, but they were enough to get her booted from the U.S. team even before it was officially named.
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