Welterweight Anthony Torres tested positive for the anabolic steroid Boldenone following his first round technical knockout loss to Jess Liaudin at UFC 75: “Champion vs. Champion” on September 8, according to Yahoo!Sports.
The former contestant on The Ultimate Fighter (TUF) has since been released from his contract.
This news is a bit delayed because UFC 75 took place in London, England, where there is no athletic commission to administer screening for banned substances in mixed martial arts competitions.
In fact, UFC Vice President of Regulatory Affairs, Mark Ratner, was charged with the task of testing the fighters on the card.
UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson, Dan Henderson, Dennis Siver, Michael Bisping, Terry Etim, Houston Alexander and Gleison Tibau were also among those who were tested prior to the event at the O2 Arena. Torres is the only who came up dirty.
More recently Kazuhiro Nakamura tested positive for marijuana after his loss to Ryoto Machida at UFC 76: “Knockout.” The Japanese fighter plans to appeal the finding before the California State Athletic Commission (CSAC).
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Roids – now you can join the roids league with Royce, Sherk, Sylvia, Bonnar, Franca, Barnett, Belfort…..man does this list just keep growing or what? Sadly most of them lost their matches on roids!
Anthony Torres is gone???? NOOOOO!! is the UFC even worth watching now?
Let that be a lesson, don’t do roids because you’ll get your ass kicked and you’ll possibly lose your contract.
UFC, back to the old drawing board. How are you going to fill the seats now without Torres?
[quote comment="165666"]Roids – now you can join the roids league with Royce, Sherk, Sylvia, Bonnar, Franca, Barnett, Belfort…..man does this list just keep growing or what? Sadly most of them lost their matches on roids![/quote]
sadly..you forgot gracie
stunnalator no he didnt he said Royce at the beginning…..
It’s a good thing he was on the juice or might have lost in two minutes instead of four.
since the testing was done by a ufc official… we have to take their word for it? the bigger names could have been protected…
he said royce
[quote comment="165686"][quote comment="165666"]Roids – now you can join the roids league with Royce, Sherk, Sylvia, Bonnar, Franca, Barnett, Belfort…..man does this list just keep growing or what? Sadly most of them lost their matches on roids![/quote]
sadly..you forgot gracie[/quote]
he said Royce, but he forgot big Tim Sylvia and I’m sure a few others that I can’t think of.
[quote post="3504"]since the testing was done by a ufc official… we have to take their word for it? the bigger names could have been protected…[/quote]
This thought actually came to my mind too – when they go overseas (i.e. UFC 72 IRELAND) are they not required to use an independent testing company? I guess not. I really wish the UFC would take a strong no tolerance stance with this issue. Here White is kicking kids off the show for walking out of the TUF house – but roids&coke? – here’s your bonus pay revoked and a few months suspension. Look at Bonnar – suspended 6 months after a positive test following his second clash with Forrest – which didn’t affect him at all b/c he was medically suspended anyhow. And why do people like Barnett and Royce (gracie) get to keep their victories for using an enhancing agent when Diaz gets a no-contest for weed? Messed up!
[quote comment="165749"][quote comment="165686"][quote comment="165666"]Roids – now you can join the roids league with Royce, Sherk, Sylvia, Bonnar, Franca, Barnett, Belfort…..man does this list just keep growing or what? Sadly most of them lost their matches on roids![/quote]
sadly..you forgot gracie[/quote]
he said Royce, but he forgot big Tim Sylvia and I’m sure a few others that I can’t think of.[/quote]
Sylvia is right there between Sherk and Bonnar
[quote post="3504"]Roids – now you can join the roids league with Royce, Sherk, Sylvia, Bonnar, Franca, Barnett, Belfort…..man does this list just keep growing or what? Sadly most of them lost their matches on roids!
sadly..you forgot gracie
he said Royce, but he forgot big Tim Sylvia and I’m sure a few others that I can’t think of. [/quote]
ROFL… he has sylvia in there also…
Anyway… Torres is a no body … no loss there
[quote post="3504"]Roids – now you can join the roids league with Royce, Sherk, Sylvia, Bonnar, Franca, Barnett, Belfort…..man does this list just keep growing or what? Sadly most of them lost their matches on roids!
sadly..you forgot gracie
he said Royce, but he forgot big Tim Sylvia and I’m sure a few others that I can’t think of.
Sylvia is right there between Sherk and Bonnar [/quote]
LOL, I wasn’t even going to open this thread, and look at this great laugh I got from it!
Marijuana?!? lol I don’t see how that is something they test for. who cares if he smokes pot, he either a) smokes pot and is a good fighter thats why they have them there fighitng. or B)he smokes pot and dosn’t perform well. Is not perfroming well the reason for that testing?
Enlighten me if there is something in marijuana that would help a fighter.
They test for performance enhancers to make sure that fighters are competing on a level playing field. They test for recreational/abuse drugs for safety purposes. Besides, it’s still illegal.
[quote comment="165758"][quote comment="165749"][quote comment="165686"][quote comment="165666"]Roids – now you can join the roids league with Royce, Sherk, Sylvia, Bonnar, Franca, Barnett, Belfort…..man does this list just keep growing or what? Sadly most of them lost their matches on roids![/quote]
sadly..you forgot gracie[/quote]
he said Royce, but he forgot big Tim Sylvia and I’m sure a few others that I can’t think of.[/quote]
Sylvia is right there between Sherk and Bonnar[/quote]
geez, I’m a freakin idiot. glad i could contribute something to this thread. frank, congratulations on being so thorough and giving me an outlet to vent my stupidity
ha ha no probblem James. I think I did forget Baroni from this list..and maybe Randleman. The big question is who will be next???? Who you guys think is next?
wandy possibly
I like how they are really trying though to keep the sport clean.
Who’s the guy Joe lauzon is fighting next, think its Reinhardt, definite juicer. The guy is almost forty years old. Built a lot like Sherk.
[quote comment="165935"]I like how they are really trying though to keep the sport clean.[/quote]
Its flawed, just like every sport, it will never be perfect where all fighters in unison drop the needle and siringe and stop doing steroids.
They are human, and they think “That can’t happen to me. I won’t get caught.”
Thats why people like him do steroids. I understand people do Steroids to heal faster before a fight, but that is still cheating and it puts an awful image on you.
I love it though, how Shawne Merriman a football player gets busted 4 games, and nobody says anything, nobody makes a huge deal out of it. Shawne Merriman was considered in that same year, after he got busted, as one of the best players and now is shown in commericals, and not yet one person has said “I wonder how many tackles, sacks ect. he got while on steroids.”
But when one guy gets busted for roids in baseball or MMA, huge talks happen.
Little unfair?
I agree with you NC-17. When one fighter fails a roid test its like all fighters are suddenly on the juice. Anthony Torres isn’t even a marquee fighter. I wonder how many 2nd and third string football players fail drug tests and we never hear a word about it.
Are roids illegal to possess and/or use in England or is it just something that the UFC has put a ban on in fighter contracts? Would it make a difference if Torres used the roids while in England versus the U.S.? Could they tell either way?
It would be like a fighter going to Amsterdam to smoke some weed. The smoking of the weed is done legally; however, having it your system would be a violation of a UFC contract or something?
FYI – the picture you put up for this post is of Jess Liaudin. You may have done that on purpose but just in case I thought I’d give you a heads up.
PEACE
Jack, roids are banned by the UFC because they are a performance enhancing substance that gives an unfair advantage in strength and time to heal to those who use them. Just trying to keep the octagon level. Smoking weed wouldn’t give anyone an unfair performance advantage. That’s all that’s at issue here with the UFC, not the legality of the substances.
[quote post="3504"]It would be like a fighter going to Amsterdam to smoke some weed. The smoking of the weed is done legally; however, having it your system would be a violation of a UFC contract or something? [/quote]
If a fighter smoked weed in Amserdam, he can walk right past a police officer smoking a blunt, and its all fine and dandy. You can smoke all the pot in Amsterdam that you wish, since it is legal. However, marijuana is a banned substance for UFC fighters, so if that same fighter then flew back to America because he had a fight coming up, and his drug test came up positive for marijuana, he would still suffer the penalties. He can’t say “Well, I smoked it in Amsterdamn, its legal there”. In China, jsut about anyone can get a prescription for HGH/steroids, its very easy – I just seen in on ESPN’s ‘Outside the Lines’ last week. The above example would be the same as if when Sherk’s steroid test came up positive, he said, “You can’t suspend me, I bought my roids in China, and needled my ass over there too.” If its illegal in the UFC, you pay the consequences when you test postive for it.
maybe it’s me, but that picture isn’t torres.
this is bullshit. Sherk gets to wait 4 months for an appeal. Why? because he’s the champ? This kid gets automatically fired with no appeal. Way to show favortism Dana
[quote comment="166776"]this is bullshit. Sherk gets to wait 4 months for an appeal. Why? because he’s the champ? This kid gets automatically fired with no appeal. Way to show favortism Dana[/quote]
Sherk gets an appeal because the sanctioning athletic commission that does the testing allows appeals. Since the UFC di the testing they probably don’t have any real way of doing an appeal hearing. Like having an actual governing body to decide if he’s guilty or innocent. But i agree, if it would have been Sherk failing the test in an overseas bout, we probably wuoldn’t hear anything about it.
Good for Torres! You have to see this guy at work. Classic wanna-be attitude. I hope he gets whats coming to him for lying about his outcomes, failure to report and use of roids!