Comments on: UFC 75: Anthony Torres fails steroids test; Other fighters cleared

By: CHECKS

CHECKS — Sun, 07 Oct 2007 07:57:17 +0000

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!

By: James S

James S — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 21:09:06 +0000

[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.

By: Spider Style

Spider Style — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 18:34:26 +0000

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

By: Shecky Shlickenshlek

Shecky Shlickenshlek — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 16:38:15 +0000

maybe it’s me, but that picture isn’t torres.

By: ViolentMike

ViolentMike — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 13:30:09 +0000

[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.

By: GangOfOne

GangOfOne — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 09:29:54 +0000

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.

By: hbdale309

hbdale309 — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 05:35:44 +0000

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

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 01:18:27 +0000

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?

By: James S

James S — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:16:42 +0000

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.

By: "Mr. NC-17"

"Mr. NC-17" — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 22:08:56 +0000

[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?