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The reality is this. Most common couch sitting ass fans are stupid as hell.
Listen, I have been in the gym for over 10 years now, I boxed myself for 4 years. Even in the amateurs guys were using steroids COMMONLY, in MMA it's even more prevalent. I would have MMA guys that literally trained in Tiger Balm, amateur level events that would ask me if I could get them some gear.
The truth is most fans are ignorant as fuck of the realities of Professional sports. NOTHING surprised me that Silva tested hot, even watching the fight I said to my girlfriend, damn he looks a lot thicker than he has in the past, no doubt he's taken something. The man is 40 years old with a major injury, how the hell did you think he was able to come back that quickly? I think people's ignorance of what steroids are, and what they do are completely a fault of our media. This whole anti-drug propaganda has misinformed the general public completely.
The fact is the human body is simply not built to undergo the physical trauma to the regularity that is required in professional sports (unless your sport is darts), LOL. Instead of lambasting these athletes and condemning them, why not better understand why these athletes have to use these drugs, and understand that the majority of them DO USE THESE DRUGS.
I've heard Joe Rogan state numerous times that he has heard athletes tell him about the rampant steroid use, and he has said he thinks it could be in the 40-50% range of fighters. I personally think he's completely wrong, and it's a much larger number than that.
I think we've simply come to a point where our rules within society has not caught up to the level of sports science technology we have now reached. For god sakes, you have athletes using hyperbaric chambers for recovery nowadays (which is quite expensive for that matter), how in the world is that "natural". The line between natural is very quickly fading here, and the advent of newer technologies will only further blur that line.
I doubt this will happen anytime soon based on the United States fixation and idealogly of this fake "drug free" "all natural" society, but I think we need to take a serious look and understand that performance enhancing drugs are part of sport, and always will be, especially when there is a financial gain to be had on the athlete and organization's part.
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