{"id":853,"date":"2010-01-04T10:31:04","date_gmt":"2010-01-04T15:31:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/?p=853"},"modified":"2010-01-14T12:10:10","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T17:10:10","slug":"dana-white-discusses-his-thoughts-on-drug-testing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/?p=853","title":{"rendered":"Dana White Discusses His Thoughts On Drug Testing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"100\" alt=\"\" style=\"padding: 5px; margin-right: 5px;float:left;\" src=\"\/images\/mmaspot_10-01-04_ufc_drugs.png\" \/>In both mixed martial arts and boxing, performance enhancing drugs are a serious issue with deep repercussions for fighters caught using. In recent history, the issue has greatly impacted a number of high profile fighters and promotions: Josh Barnett's positive test acted as the catalyst for the demise of Affliction, Sean Sherk was stripped of his belt following a positive result, and testing procedures are holding up a highly anticipated boxing match between Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr. In the press conference following this weekend's \"UFC 108: Evans vs. Silva,\" UFC President Dana White discussed his thoughts on modern drug testing practices and their impact on fighting sports.<\/p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mmaspot.net\/index.php\/redblack\/comments\/20100104_dana_white_discusses_his_thoughts_on_drug_testing\/\">read more...<\/a>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[37,38,28,44,27],"class_list":["post-853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mma-articles","tag-dana-white","tag-drug-testing","tag-mixed-martial-arts","tag-mma","tag-mmaspot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=853"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":917,"href":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853\/revisions\/917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surfrock66.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}