Quick Hit 8/5 #1: If the NSAC is serious, look at the whole UFC...

(Blogger's Note:  Full hiatus on the 8th through the 12th.  Heading to Vegas for some R&R and probably some football future research.)

Well, the UFC went and did it AGAIN yesterday in Las Vegas.

Anyone reading the blog has almost-certainly seen the video by now.  UFC has Media Day for several future cards in the MGM Grand lobby in Las Vegas (favorite hotel to gamble in, actually), and out comes the UFC 178 main event, Jon Jones vs. Daniel Cormier.

They get into the menacing pose, and, then, shit got at least as real as they won't allow it, as the ensuing fight tore down most of the architecture the UFC had set up for the day, and MGM security had to break it up.

This has not been a good summer for the UFC.  Chael Sonnen banned two years for five failed drug tests.  That has forced him to retire from mixed-martial arts.

Vitor Belfort, who was scheduled to be Sonnen's opponent in July, had failed a drug test in February and had to be scrapped completely from a title fight until December (and, that, with many conditions from the NSAC handed down the same day Sonnen was banned) with Chris Weidman, who does not believe Belfort will abide by the conditions, especially passing random drug tests.

But the facts are that if the NSAC is serious into looking into this incident, it really has to take a much larger look at MMA in general and the UFC in particular.

Let's face it:  If there were real teeth in the NSAC, Jones and Cormier would not be fighting at UFC 178 or anytime soon thereafter.  The fact is that they probably just got more buys for the pay-per-view fight in eight weeks, with more than a few people thinking that the incident, at best, was (as Deadspin put it) "on the real side of staged".

That said, how much more, especially with the rocky road MMA and Dana White have had to climb, should the UFC have to have happen before the Nevada State Athletic Commission takes a serious look at the sport, the promotion, and a head of the promotion who seems to be tiptoeing on the line on a lot of different fronts, both in and outside the Octagon?

And then there's today's drug action:  The NSAC wants Wanderlei Silva next, for evading his UFC 175 drug test -- for a fight between the two coaches of the Brazilian season of The Ultimate Fighter, cancelled when the two coaches (Silva and Sonnen) got into a fight and Silva was injured in the fight.

Now, there's a good chance neither will ever fight again, both being on major drugs.

So maybe it's time to force Dana White to put up or shut up.  Maybe it's time to look at the whole promotion, NSAC...