Filed under: Featured , Featured Videos , News , UFC , Videos Anthony Marnell of the Nevada State Athletic Commission about summed up the mood when he brought his head to rest on a table in mock exasperation before former middleweight champion Anderson Silva . For the umpteenth time since Silva’s hearing into allegations of performance-enhancing drug use at UFC 183 began, a conference call speaker had butted into the proceedings, providing a comedic soundtrack to a defense that went downhill almost from the moment it started. Even by MMA standards, it was a bizarre hearing that ended with Silva (33-6 MMA, 16-2 UFC) suspended for one year and fined $380,000 in addition to the overturning of his UFC 183 win over Nick Diaz (26-9 MMA, 7-6 UFC), a triumph after his improbable comeback from a broken leg suffered in a rematch with champ Chris Weidman a year earlier. This time, the unknown DJ queued up Salt-N-Pepa’s “Let’s Talk About Sex” as Silva, 40, tried to explain how he had got ahold of a blue vial of liquid from a guy in Thailand.
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A view from today’s train wreck of a commission hearing with Anderson Silva – MMA Junkie