Sonnen tests positive for PEDs at UFC 117...

[Phobia]

While I don't want to get into this topic to much.

Football players
Baseball players
Basketball players
MMA fighters

What they all have in common. At the elite level the majority have dove into some form of illegal enhancement. If you don't believe that, then yes you are naive.

All that does for me is reiterate how players such as Wilt Chamberlain, Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, Babe Ruth, Walter Payton, etc etc. How great those players really were.

The reason sports now-a-days are bigger/faster/stronger than ever before is because of medical created substances. So while it is illegal, know that more are doing it than not at these high levels.

[ex carrabba fan]

Football is a given, but we all accept it because it's awesome. More so than when baseball had that "home run craze".

Basketball is interesting, 82 games + playoffs is a grind. Not many off days in between just like baseball, except basketball is much more "physical". I would not be surprised if they had a fiasco similar to baseball.

I just thought MMA would be more stringent with their testing due to the nature of the sport even thwarting the best masking attempts. But I guess athletes can cycle them out and be on schedule to test clean.

Question: when the substances are "cycled out", how much of an advantage do they really have on fight night [due to the PED's]? And this is assuming they took substances other than making them heal faster.

[sven]

Quote: Originally Posted by ex carrabba fan

Question: when the substances are "cycled out", how much of an advantage do they really have on fight night [due to the PED's]? And this is assuming they took substances other than making them heal faster.

What other kinds are there? They all make them heal faster so they can train more than any normal human should be able to without breaking down.

[jeremym480]

So, does this mean that Chael gave himself cancer?

[ex carrabba fan]

Quote: Originally Posted by sven

What other kinds are there? They all make them heal faster so they can train more than any normal human should be able to without breaking down.

Uh, there's quite an array of them actually.

Like in the video the guy made a clear distinction between the kind that helps the body repair itself and then the kind that gives you strength or makes you a "better" fighter than you would be without the substance.

[aholbert32]

I'm completely confused by this whole thing. Sonnen told CSAC BEFORE the fight that he used an illegal substance but they still let him fight? This whole thing is confusing.

[mgoblue]

Quote: Originally Posted by bkfount

While I do believe many fighters cycle PED's, you have to be pretty stupid to talk about it as much as Sonnen does, and then get caught in a championship fight. It could easily be something in an OTC supplement he was taking, but professional athletes are supposed to know what they put into their body.

This is what my co-worker was telling me...he's guessing it was something in some medicine or whatnot...Sonnen wouldn't be stupid enough to get his cycles that wrong.

[Beantown]

One Year Suspension is official.