Four UFC 107 Fighters Test Clean
by Zak Woods on Jan 5, 2010 2:00 PM EST
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PrintThe Tennessee Athletic Commission tested four fighters of the twenty-two participants on UFC 107 and all fighters' tests came back negative.
The fighters tested were B.J. Penn, Diego Sanchez, Jon Fitch and Mike Pierce. Penn and Sanchez were involved in a title fight, which usually entails an automatic drug test. Thus, only two of twenty fighters were given random tests by the TAC.
Absent from the list of tested fighters was Frank Mir who gained 19.5 pounds from his last fight at UFC 100. This being the era of steroids eyebrows are raised anytime an athlete dramatically bulks up in weight and muscle in a short period of time.
Mir addressed those suspicions when he spoke to Steve Cofield of Cage Writer.
Update: Dana White talks about steroids in this video.
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I know it’s supposed to be up to the state’s AC to complete testing, but it costs them money so they are reluctant to test all the fighters on the card. Couldn’t Zuffa take over this responsibilty much like the NFL or MLB and release the results to relieve the state from doing it?
Do you suppose Zuffa points back to the state for testing because they might have a feeling more fighters are using then the handful that piss hot here and there? It just seems like the could work the tests into an operating expense rather easy.
what you brought up is a serious complaint that some people have talked/written about.
The Commissions are not suppose to be worried about the cost of testing as the gate tax should pay for it.
The league controlled testing, like the one MLB and NFL has, are negotiated with the Unions and some people think that they are inadequate as it is in the leagues interest to keep tests under wraps.
The only body that is squeaky clean is the IOC
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Really i’m sure the are several people who have a problem with them over the years.
Also what’s the deal with calling out Mir?, who’s a 255 pound hw regardless of the talking heads say didn’t gain any 20 pounds of muscle that’s ridiculous.
Claiming that he gained 20 pounds again is false, he showed up at his lightest in years in his last fight that was an anomaly. And like MIr had said prior to UFC 107 a mistake on his part everyone knew Mir would be bigger against Kongo and he was.
Mir normally fights around 255 pounds, he gained less than 10 from his normal fighting weight by trotting out the 20 pounds stuff you pretty much implied something was up.
You want to desseminate information that’s fine but let’s stick to facts when we do.
I probably shouldn’t have said “gained” as it didn’t show the nuance of the situation as you pointed out.
However, that word “gained” was being thrown around by Mir in the lead up to the fight and several other journalists used it when describing Mir’s physique; saying that he had “bulked up” and “added muscle.” It was a fairly strong story line as Ben Fowlkes wondered if Mir was becoming really obsessed with Lesanr due to his attempts to gain weight.
This statement,
This being the era of steroids eyebrows are raised anytime an athlete dramatically bulks up in weight and muscle in a short period of time.
was not meant to be acusory to Mir rather to introduce the reader to the environment we live in and preface the video, which presents Mir’s own words.
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