Mike Kyle out of bout with Gegard Mousasi at Strikeforce “Tate vs. Rousey” due to injury
By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief
Mike Kyle has been forced out of a March 3 bout with Gegard Mousasi in Strikeforce due to an undisclosed injury, according to multiple published reports.
The fight was scheduled for the main card of the event in Columbus, Ohio, headlined by the Women’s Bantamweight Championship bout between Miesha Tate and Ronda Rousey, and would have likely put the winner into a fight for the vacant Strikeforce Light Heavyweight Championship.
Mousasi picked up his first win in Strikeforce since losing his title in 2010 when he defeated Ovince St-Preux by decision in December. That was his fourth win in five fights, with a draw against Keith Jardine rounding out that stretch.
Speculation is that Mousasi will be scratched from the card, though a replacement could still be found.
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And you thought Ronda Rousey was a beast when she has a limb in her grasps. The real animal inside emerged recently when she was asked about Nick Diaz’s positive test for marijuana following his fight at UFC 143.
Rousey is outraged that marijuana is part of athletic commissions’ banned lists across the United States.
“The athletic commissions testing for marijuana is an invasion of privacy. I don’t think that’s constitutional at all. There’s no real reason that they should be able to test and make the athletes conform to their political ideas,” Rousey told MMAWeekly radio.
This was the second time Diaz tested positive in the state of Nevada. Due to attention deficit disorder, Diaz has a medical marijuana card in California, but that doesn’t supersede commission policy. Rousey said that’s Diaz’s personal business and state commissions are poking their beaks where they don’t belong.
“They have just as much of right to say that ‘you know what? We don’t believe that athletes should be promiscuous so we’re going to start testing for genital herpes and genital warts,’” said Rousey.
Then Rousey went completely off the rails.
“‘We’re going to start testing women for birth control because we don’t think you be having premarital sex,’” Rousey said. “They don’t have a right to do it. It has nothing to do with sports.”
Nevada State Athletic Commission chairman Keith Kizer disagrees.
“The drug is banned because of the damage it does to the person taking it. It could make you lethargic, slow your reflexes, and those are dangerous things in a combat sport,” Kizer told the L.A. Times in 2009.
Apparently Rousey has never seen that explanation.
“Anyone who is stupid enough to say that smoking weed enhances your performance has never fougt or never smoked weed,” Rousey said. “It actually lowers your testosterone. It doesn’t help you in anyway at all.”
Diaz is likely to appear in front of the commission in April. The normal suspension for a positive marijuana test is six months, but this is offense No. 2 for Diaz. Boxer Matt Vanda appeared for a second offense last month. He received a one-year suspension and was docked 40 percent of his purse.
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