Brock Lesnar, Nate Diaz settlements on disciplinary actions approved by NAC
If former UFC heavyweight champion Brock Lesnar intends to return to mixed martial arts, he will have to wait until at least July.
The professional wrestling superstar was suspended for one year and fined $250,000 by the Nevada Athletic Commission on Thursday for failing multiple drug tests around his return to competition in July.
Lesnar and his legal team had negotiated a settlement with the commission before Thursday’s meeting at the Grant Sawyer Building, and it was unanimously approved.
Also at the meeting, Nate Diaz was fined $50,000 and ordered to do community service for his role in a news conference melee before an August fight against Conor McGregor.
Lesnar’s fine was 10 percent of the $2.5 million disclosed purse he collected for his July 9 bout against Mark Hunt at UFC 200. His decision victory was overturned to a no-contest.
The fight was Lesnar’s first since 2011. The World Wrestling Entertainment star tested positive for the estrogen blocker clomiphene before and after the bout, though the result of the out-of-competition test was not received from the lab before the fight, allowing it to continue.
As part of the settlement agreement, Lesnar did not admit fault for the failed test. He has denied knowingly taking any banned substance.
Diaz was ordered to do 50 hours of community service. His penalty was negotiated as part of a settlement before the meeting.
McGregor’s penalty for the incident, which involved both fighters and their entourages hurling water bottles and cans of energy drinks at one another in a theatre that included members of the public, amounted to 2.5 percent of his reported purse.
Diaz made a disclosed purse of $2 million. McGregor was fined $75,000 on a purse of $3 million in October.
McGregor has refused to pay the fine and filed an appeal for judicial review in Clark County earlier this month.
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