Nate Marquardt Talks Firing from UFC on MMA Hour
Nate Marquardt, the former UFC middleweight contender was set to make his welterweight debut on Sunday, June 26 against the up and coming Rick Story.
Hours prior to the weigh-in, news broke that the former middleweight title contender had been scratched from the card.
That news was quickly followed by a Twitter video post from UFC president Dana White. White said that not only had Marquardt been scratched from the card, but he had been released by the UFC.
Marquardt had been silent on the subject of why he was released from the UFC and what his plans are for the future.
That changed on Tuesday, June 28 when Marquardt spoke to Ariel Helwani on the MMA Hour along with his manager Lex McMahon.
Marquardt told Helwani that he had been undergoing Hormone Replacement Therapy since last year. he also said that he had been approved by NJ for his fight against Dan Miller.
Marquardt then went off treatment and followed the guidelines given to him to prove that he needed the therapy. After the tests his doctor recommended he go back on treatment.
The point he went back on therapy was three weeks out from the Rick Story bout and his doctor put him on a more aggressive treatment. Marquardt then took a blood test and it came back high and he went off treatment and his levels did not return to normal levels when he was tested on weigh in day.
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