Nevada State Athletic Commission wants to look at your winky

Nevada State Athletic Commission Executive Director Keith Kizer spoke with MMA Junkie recently about their drug testing standards, and in light of recent events with Thiago Silva admitting to using banned substances during his UFC 125 fight, Kizer believes more dire methods are needed.

A lot of this story goes back to the infamous Pride FC 32 debacle, where Kevin Randleman was found to have managed to forge his urine to the commission. Pretty spectacular feat, and Kizer explained what he thinks happened and why Randleman almost got away with it. “What he did was he grabbed the inner-thigh of his shorts, kind of pulled it open, stuck out what we thought was the tip of his penis – it was the same color as the rest of his skin – and then urinated in the cup and gave it to our inspector.”

According to Kizer, Randleman provided a sample that was consistent with human urine when tested for the presence of illegal narcotics, but for performance-enhancing drugs, it was quite obvious it was not legit, which is where things begin to quantify the case of Thiago Silva.

“Here, it’s pretty much zero,” he said. “So it’s like, ‘Wait a second. He has pretty much at an undetectable level of testosterone?’ That’s just not consistent with a human being… So I think with Randleman and allegedly with Silva, had we given them (just) a drug test, they might have passed it. But we gave them a steroid test, and you can’t pass that with fake urine.”

Thanks to the dirty yet simultaneously incredibly clever tactic of Kevin Randleman, the NSAC is now enforcing that their inspectors visually confirm that a fighter is urinating in a sample cup when they take their test. In other words, whip it out! Invasion of privacy? Maybe, but it’s a small price to pay for all fighters being on an even playing field. When you have guys willing to go to extremes like that to hide things they know they should not be doing, it takes extreme measures back to solve them. For all you pro fighters out there, don’t forget to thank “The Monster” next time Keith Kizer is watching you take a leak in a dixie cup.