Recent high profile World Extreme Cagefighting (WEC) featherweight acquisition, Alexandre “Pequeno” Nogueira (13-5-2), has been popped for having an illegal anabolic steroid (Boldenone) in his system following his technical knockout loss to Jose Aldo on June 1.
The California State Athletic Commission yesterday issued an announcement that the longtime Shooto 143-pound champion was fined $2,500 and will be suspended for 12 months for the positive test.
Nogueira had both his “A” and “B” samples independently verified at separate laboratories.
It’s certainly another setback for the Brazilian since his arrival stateside –- he was being discussed as a possible threat to Urijah Faber’s 145-pound crown. And despite the loss in his debut for the promotion, there was speculation that he would get to prove himself later on this year in a fight against Jens Pulver.
Those plans now appear to be on hold for quite some time.
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sucks to be him
ya…specially since he got his @$$ handed to him in the process. guess he needed a lot more than roids to pull out the win. lesson learned: kids, dont do drugs!
Better Lesson to the Kids: Do drugs, but not when you know that you are going to get drug tested. (although I wouldn’t include steroids as the type of drugs I am reefer-ing to)
So after taking steroids this guy ballooned up to 148 pounds.
How do u do roids and only weigh $145 lbs. WTF? When u think Roids u think ogf dudes that look like brock Lesner not Pequenio!
That sucks for the WEC, it seems like more often then not the fighters that test positive post fight, lost in the fight they are being tested for.
That sucks..to lose and get tested positive for the Horsejuice.. sucks to be him today..and for 12months of inactivity.
Cheater, and should be suspended for life.
Crowds in Arkansas came for the lure of cage fighting and $1 beer, but police say what they got instead was men ripping each others’ clothes off and kissing — a stunt suspected of being orchestrated by Sacha Baron Cohen of “Borat” fame.
“We had a contract for cage fighting. We were deceived,” said Dwight Duncan, president and CEO of Four States Fair Grounds in Texarkana, where the first of two Arkansas fights raised suspicions last month.
Matt Labov, a Los Angeles-based publicist for Baron Cohen, said he had no comment Monday about the faked fights. One of Baron Cohen’s movies is due out next year.
The day after the June 5 Texarkana bout, Fort Smith’s convention center hosted “Blue Collar Brawlin.’” Fort Smith police Sgt. Adam Holland said organizers told him a character named “Straight Dave” would goad a planted audience member into the ring for a fight.
The two men would then wrestle, rip away some of their clothes and share a brief kiss reminiscent of one between Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell in the film “Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby.”
Producers said “there would be a romantic embrace,” Holland said. “They said it was kind of to essentially make fun, poke fun at wrestling — two guys rolling around on the floor, all sweaty.”
An elaborate array of mounted and handheld video cameras caught the crowd of 1,600’s reaction as the two men “went right up to the line” of the city’s morality laws, Holland said. The two men stripped down to their underwear, kissed and rubbed on each other, the sergeant said.
The audience, as well as local fighters drawn to take part in the show, became enraged. “It set the crowd off lobbing beers,” Holland said. “They had beers in plastic cups. Those things can get some distance on them actually.”
yeah, his new movie is based on his gay character, Bruno.
Definitely sounds like the working of Sasha
Oh yeah, and I meant to also say - NICE FIND!
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Maybe from the ‘Bruno’ movie he is coming out with, if he had anything to do with it at all.
I wonder what these guys are thinking when they take steroids. Its amazing how they think they arent going to get caught or test positive. I guess some fighters have such a low confidence in thier abilities that thay feel they have to take them, and if this is so I wonder how they feel when they take them and lose, then get suspended. F*cking loser city all the way around.
i find it amusing taht more often than not, the guy that tests positive, loses the fight.
TO THE ONE GUY THAT SAID HOW CAN YOU TAKE ROIDS AND ONLY WEIGH 145? DUDE IS A REAL DULL LIGHTBULB. THERE ARE ALL KINDS OF ROIDS THAT DO DIFFERENT THINGS. BOLDENONE (EQUIPOISE) IS FOR HORSES. IT MAKES THEM LEAN AND FAST.. TRANSLATION… GREAT DRUG FOR MMA.. I AM SURE THE SMARTER GUYS ARE USING HGH AND INSULIN.. HARD TO TEST FOR AND VERY EFFECTIVE. VEGAS IS ALWAYS GOING TO GET THE LIONS SHARE. THE CASINOES, CORRUPT COMMISSIONS, JUDGES, ETC ETC.. THAT UFC CARD WAS HORSESH@#$.. THE CO MAIN ALMOST PUT ME TO SLEEP. THE MAIN WOULD OF BEEN BOO’D IF IT WEREN’T THE MAIN AND HYPED LIKE CRAZY. KOSCHECKS FIGHT WAS MORE ENTERTAINING AND HE GOT BOO’D.. LAME CARD. NEVER WILL BUY UFC PPV AGAIN.. GO AFFLICTION!!!