NSAC’s Kizer: Sonnen needs to answer for testosterone, ref criticism
The meeting – which was also attended by UFC president Dana White, UFC executive Lorenzo Fertitta and other high-ranking officials…
The meeting – which was also attended by UFC president Dana White, UFC executive Lorenzo Fertitta and other high-ranking officials from the promotion – did not go well.
“With his explanations, I don’t know how productive of a meeting it was,” NSAC executive director Keith Kizer told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “I really did expect a much more constructive meeting out of that. But it just wasn’t there. I think Zuffa tried; I know we tried. I put the blame completely on Mr. Sonnen.”
At the hearing, Sonnen claimed he had spoken to Kizer about his use of testosterone prior to his fight with Nate Marquardt at UFC 109 and had received a verbal greenlight. He said the same in a subsequent interview with HDNet’s “Inside MMA” program.
Kizer, though, denied ever speaking to Sonnen about the issue in an interview with MMAjunkie.com shortly after the fighter’s hearing.
“His point was, ‘Well, you and I have never talked before right now, but I don’t think I lied,'” Kizer said.
“Then he gave some very strange story and claimed, ‘My manager and you talked about therapeutic exemptions, and therefore, I just used the wrong word. I should have said ‘my’ instead of ‘I.’ As in ‘my manager’ instead of ‘I.’
“I was very straight with him, saying, ‘That’s a ridiculous explanation.'”
