Tonight in Atlantic City, WSOF 5 lost one of its middleweight tournament bouts as the Athletic Commission did not allow

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Published on Sunday, 15 September 2013 01:53

Written by Ringside DIRT

Tonight in Atlantic City, WSOF 5 lost one of its middleweight tournament bouts as the Athletic Commission did not allow Elvis Mutapcic to fight Jesse Taylor as planned. It seems that an un-named official alleged to have seen Mutapcic take an unknown pill from a container prior to the fight. The Commission stated they could not confirm what he took, and as a safety precaution could not allow him to fight.

A disappointed Mutapcic stated that he had not taken anything and alleged that it may have been misidentification as his trainer (who is similar in size and was wearing the same outfit) had taken his prescribed heart medication from that bottle. Dejected after being bumped from the fight and seeing a 10 week training camp for nothing, Mutapcic offered to take a drug test, including a hair follicle test, to clear up any allegations of misconduct on his part.

From Mutapcic:

"I really don't know what happened, what she saw. She might have been taking some medication, herself. I put in a good 10-week training camp. I worked my ass off. I know Taylor's ready. I'm not sure if she misstated me for my manager, who has a heart prescription. He was the one that had it. We're all dressed the same - same T-shirt, same hat. I mean, there's four of us, and she's pointing me out, that I took it. I say I'll take a blood test. I'll give a hair sample if they need it. I've got nothing in my system. I'm completely clean."

From The Commission:

"There were some prescriptions that weren't given to our doctors during the physicals and that weren't approved by us, the commission. So since we don't know what they are and what they do, we cancelled the fight.

"We can't take that chance to have that fight go off, so those things need to be looked at, and they need to be talked about. We just feel that we're not going to have a fight in New Jersey when we don't know what someone is taking."

From WSOF President Ray Sefo:

"It is sad to see this happen. I've been in martial arts for 25 years and have never seen anything like this. Elvis has been training for this fight for 10 weeks. But the commission has made its decision and we have to live with it.  Because this was an issue with the fighters manager, both fighters will receive their show money."