Who cares about Shane Carwin’s steroid woes?
Shane Carwin might have used steroids. So says court documents filed in Alabama. So what? If true, he’s hardly alone in the sport of mixed martial arts (hello Josh Barnett). He wouldn’t even the only UFC fighter to enhance his performance with a syringe (hello Sean Sherk, Stephan Bonnar, Chris Leben). And questions continue to swirl around Georges St. Pierre and Brock Lesnar and just about any other fighter with a physique like a Greek statue. I just don’t care. I accept that some fighters use performance-enhancing drugs, just as athletes in baseball and football and the Olympics and probably golf and tennis do. There are plenty of ways to artificially enhance an athlete’s performance, why do we draw the line at steroids but not things like laser eye surgery?
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Bobby Lashley sucks, period.
I am glad Griggs handed him his ass. Get these cheaters and former fake wrestlers out of my site. They deserve to earn what the cheaters of world’s strongest man, all steroid users, used to earn, nothing. These guys have been taking steroids, hgh, and anything else they can get their hands on to cheat. If Bobby Lashley was that big from naturally working out he would not get gassed out by round 1. Steroids stop glucocorticoids from allowing the immune system to strengthen muscle properly. I have met the guy. Huge biceps with tiny wrists with guitar string tendons. Any doctor can see he cheated to get where he is at. Steroids deposit fat, because we all need it like it or not, in the arteries and veins rather than deposits on stomach, etc. Bobby looks like he has no fat, steroid bullshit. We need to start testing by blood olympic style and not just piss tests. They should even do a fat cell check for steroids that would show who has been cheating for many years in the past. It does not matter the cost. The cost is me wasting time watching this pumped up loser fight who never should have been in Strikeforce to begin with. Get rid of the cheaters, you too UFC Shane Carwin federal scandal, or people are going elsewhere. Notice Carwin got gassed in round 1 as well, steroids. This goes for football, baseball, bicycling, etc. We are tired of the cheaters, and your pocketbooks are going to get a little smaller, mark my words. If Congress is listening, drop the hammer on these guys already, at least Olympic standard blood random tests. There are plenty of legit athletes ready to take their place. Maybe we can finally see who the real genetic God of War is, but not with lab created bullshit.
Tired of the Bullshit
I love your hardcore anti-steroids stance, but if they start testing for anybody who has ever done steroids then a huge chunk of the UFC and Strikeforce rosters would be gone. And what about steroids that are taken as a prescription to battle other ailments/injuries, how do you distinguish that? Testing is expensive and would be hard to do at every level of the sport, so what about fighters working their way up through the smaller promotions who juice? I’m not pro-steroid, I’m just asking questions, and want to hear what you have to say since you seem to know quite a bit about it. Thoughts?
Inhaled corticosteroids, an example, is detected for what it is by molecular size. This is used to help with lung function. Now someone with respiratory issues should not be engaging in fighting, but if they should want to we can detect the medical from the doping cheaters. Every molecule or substance has a way of bonding and a specific size. Shoot, if we wanted to we can use assay techniques or run it on a High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) to be extreme. HPLCs use water and pressure through microscopic glass beads in a tube. Small particles come through the beads or column first then the large ones. We can see every single protein or molecule by basic size and shape, if this makes sense. We can see if someone ever took anything, but the longer out from using the smaller the quantity. Fat cells hold onto the most because they are stored for long period of times, and that is what cheaters don’t like. Now I have done MMA amateur and have done ju-jitsu tournaments as well for fun. I am pretty good, and I hate cheaters because there are lots of guys like me having to combat the cheaters. It is not fair and they are not working hard like I am to be where they are now. Well they are going to die early and get cancer, poor sex life, mental issues, etc. So they will pay eventually, but they are losers that should not have a chance in the first place. Now it will be the end of 80%, I guess, of the fighters now, but that is not the end of the ufc or strikeforce. Non cheaters like myself get a chance, and I and others will fill in the missing holes, trust me. I am a purist. I want to see who is the genetic god of war, it would be entertaining. Plus, I can ju-jitsu for 2 hours straight against various opponents, I get tired, but I know I outlast anyone in UFC cardio period. Wouldn’t you like to see two guys really kill each other for 5 or more rounds, not just a sucker punch in round one, boring.
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Done with MMA, Football, Baseball, Hockey, Basketball, Underwater Basket weaving, ha,ha,ha etc.
I am tired of all the cheaters and steroids. If a sport cannot do olympic style blood and urine testing for hgh, steroids, etc, then they are not going to get my money. Look at baseball. Even though the sport is boring and has many problems, steroids killed baseball’s revenue. I see the empty stands and see how cameras try to manipulate seating shots to make it appear there is a full stadium. A real man stands on his own two feet for what he is and struggles to change his weaknesses into strengths, not cheat with steroids. All those mma cheaters are just a bunch of losers, and regardless of the media hype or money thrown they will always look like that in everyone’s eyes, period. Why don’t I give everyone a bat who didn’t take steroids to even the playing field. Americans know their “pro” sports are tainted, and we don’t need to wait for congress to fix you. Everyone speaks of mma like it is a circus rather than a sport because of all the controversy. You are going the same route as fake wrestling or strongman competitions that make no money because of steroid losers. It is cause and effect. Less fans, less attendance at other venues like bars, means less money for all businesses around. Regulate steroids before it destroys your source of income. I know I am not going to any events until you fix this crap.
List of Steroid Cheaters, some are still with their organizations after a slap on the wrist.ex Chris Leben
JOSH BARNETT (now with strikeforce), TIM SYLVIA, KIMO LEOPOLDO, NATE MARQUARDT, VITOR BELFORT, STEPHAN BONNAR, PAWEL NASTULA, KIT COPE, JOHNNIE MORTON, ROYCE GRACIE, JORGE ORTIZ, PHIL BARONI, SEAN SHERK (still with UFC), HERMES FRANCA, ANTHONY TORRES, BILL MAHOOD, ADAM SMITH, JASON WINTHERS, RUBEN VILLAREAL, DENNIS HALLMAN, ALEXANDER CRISPIM, CARINA DAMM, ALEXANDRE NOGUEIRA, ANTONIO SILVA, EDWIN DEWEES, CHRIS LEBEN (still with UFC), KIRILL SIDELNIKOV, KEN SHAMROCK, JOSH BARNETT, COLE PROVINCE, CHAEL SONNEN (still with UFC), SHANE CARWIN (not caught but federal link to purchase of steroids).
Really, you cheat you get another chance, bullshit!!!
For everyone who supports steroid use, I don’t know what to say. You are either born a man or not, and compensating by drugs pretty much answers those questions. Everyone can see when most anyone really abuses steroids, and notes records broken, and people dying of cancer early. I hope those that support it take it and die from the stuff so the rest of us can enjoy this rock with a few less losers on it.
Piss tests are not good enough because any cheater can use a catheter and fill his bladder with whatever at any time. The testing is also not that costly, for blood and urine, so that argument don’t fly with me either. Also sports need to publicly state who was on what whenever they fail a test. Football and baseball keep their information private other than announcing a failed PED. I hear about a steroid user and I boycott and bad mouth.
Dana White you are a DOUCHE
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