To be honest using steroids to help treat an injury and help recovery is very common and widely used. So I can see him using them to facilitate his recovery. If that's the story they come out with I will believe it and hopefully people can move on.

Being positive for weed who the fuck cares. It's gonna be Ribliati all over again. I didn't smoke it but I was in the same room as people who were. Haha

The metabolites for marijuana are also remain in your system a lot longer, so he could've smoked weeks ago and still have it in his system

This is the 3rd time hes tested positive for weed. So I don't think the NSAC gives a shit what excuse he has.


As for Anderson. I dont think this will ruin his reputation much. People will look back and understand that hes almost 40 years old and might have needed help recovering from such a devastating injury.

Sure is interesting that he has a box of needles in his closet in that video from 2011 tho.

Silva speaks about the situation

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B8-B2OBIgAEWL3V.png

lol this pre-fight testing is such a joke if they "supposedly" get the results after the fight..
oh okay..lmao

At the current levels, which were raised by 300%, you have to smoke within the last 7-10 days to test positive.

BTW here's Anderson's strength & conditioning coach

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B9CCQaRIgAAwQdQ.jpg

Drostanolone is used to maintain strength while cutting. Anderson has probably been using it his whole career, as do probably 90% of the fighters at all levels. Expect to see more main events ruined now that they're doing more stringent testing. At least until they realize they have to cut taking anabolics completely.

Androstane must be relatively new, because there's not much information about it.

As for the results being a joke, it's not up to NSAC to receive results in a timely manner unless they specifically ask for it to be rushed. In this case they tested twice (but not the B sample) which may explain why it took longer than normal.

The lab doesn't know whose sample they are testing - they just test and re-test if necessary. If asked to specifically rush a sample, they can do so.

In the future, I assume the NSAC will be rushing every result, otherwise there's not much point in pre-fight testing.

Bill Bennett, director of NSAC:

Anderson is the 3rd Black House fighter in the last 6 months to test positive for Drostanolone. Kevin Casey at UFC 175 in July in Vegas, and Brian Ortega at UFC on Fox 12 in SanJose.

Also Rafael Cavalcante tested positive for stanozolol in 2012

Damn


Anderson Silva's win over Nick Diaz switched to a no contest - Bloody Elbow

Speaking of Fitch, did you see how big he got after stopping being a vegetarian? :lawl:

This is funny coming from Fitch considering how vocal he was about how clean he was throughout his entire career.

Yup the only one more vocal than him has been GSP :pokerface:

How confident are you guys that GSP has been clean this whole time? I want to say I think he has been but I dunno these days

i am not impressed by your performance.....enchancing drugs...:troll:

until proven i'm saying GSP is clean.

Anderson Silva: $800,000 (includes $200,000 win bonus)
def. Nick Diaz: $500,000


So he loses $200k by losing the win bonus. Im pretty sure he gets PPV points and Im pretty sure he gets that money win or lose. $200k hurts, but Im sure hes probably walking away with a few million still

Slightly above 0%, being kind

Yep, love GSP but now, anyone is really questionable.

MMA needs more of these, IMO. Brings me back to the Pride days when just about every single fight was intriguing and not just a bunch of geeks fighting for no real reason most of the time.

Report: UFC has blocked $6 million payment to Anderson Silva - Bloody Elbow

I doubt this is true. If anything, the win bonus will be forfeit since the result was changed to a NC.

iirc aoki lost his head instructor position at his dojo for that finger

Aoki is a phaggot. I hope he gets into the UFC one day so I can see him get fucked up.

He already fought in Strikeforce and got fucked up by Melendez (well layed and prayed on for 5 rounds)