I talked with Ken Pavia - Joe Riggs manager during weigh-ins tonight for tomorrows Strikeforce event. He said "We have a problem". I was suppossed to be interviewing Riggs right after weigh-ins.....
"He did not meet our medical requirements," CSAC Executive Director Armando Garcia told Sherdog.com. "We hope that in a week or so we can receive the right paperwork and we can discuss and clear him to have him fight in California."
Riggs' agent, Ken Pavia, said his client was removed from the card after he disclosed that he'd taken prescription medication a few days earlier. In California, all combatants are required to fill out a pre-fight medical questionnaire listing all medications a fighter has recently used.
"Joe disclosed everything he consumed," said Pavia. "He had a prescription for everything. One of them he took three days ago. [He] wasn't sure if it was going to be in his system."
Pavia said the 25-year-old former state wrestling champion provided documentation of his medication to a CSAC physician, including paperwork for a prescription pain reliever.
After he was told his license would not be approved, an emotional and vocal Riggs was escorted from the weigh-in by his agent Pavia.
