Light heavyweight James Irvin has tested positive for Methadone and Oxymorphone, following his first round technical knockout loss to Anderson Silva at UFC Fight Night 14 on July 19, according to the Nevada State Athletic Commission (NSAC).
Methadone and Oxymorphone are often used to treat chronic pain.
The “Sandman” has 20 days to respond and request a formal hearing to dispute the finding. If the ruling is upheld after the hearing he faces a possible fine and suspension.
All of the other fighters tested on the card came back clean.
Stay tuned for more on this developing story.
Note that we passed along a story earlier today that the 11 fighters tested for the Spike TV special event tested clean for steroids and drugs of abuse. That was inaccurate … those tests were just for steroids.
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wow. tough shit
that must hurt similar to Silva’s punch
He was just getting ready for the pain that silva was going to inflict on him!
my thought exactly.
Yeah, you take Oxycontin, loads of percocet, or phentynol for chronic pain!!!!
Methadone is PRIMARILY used for junkies ADDICTED to opiates(heroin, pain pilss, etc, etc….
See, the UFC knows what they are doing. They must of known he was a freakin mess and an easy win for Silva!!
what a freaking JOke! Told all u that he had no business fighting Silva (but I got crucified on here for it). UFC gives this guy the opportunity of a life time, and this is how he repays the company? What a tOOL!!
the occasional percocet is understandable, but Methadone? THats for junkies!
Eiother Cut him, or send him back top fighting C level fighters on UFN undercards!
what a joke! He was given the opportunity of a life time by the UFC although he never earned it, and this is how he repays the UFC.
Methadone is not really taken to get high, like percs, oxy’s or Fetanol loly pops. Methadone is used to treat Heroin and opiate addiction. I wonder what skelatons he has in his closet!
awwww c’mon john, don’t act like your the only one that called it. Everybody said Anderson would win, becuase he’s anderson. Saying that you got crucified for saying anderson would win, just dont remember that ever happening.
I didn’t know Irvin was a junkie!LOL!
no, thats why he took them…in preparation for silva’s punch
A junkie doesn’t get hurt…Hehe!!
unless you have so many track marks that your arms start to fall off
Hey Watz been up brendan? Long time no hear!!
been around, gettin on peoples nerves… you know
When they showed countdown to Silva-Irvin they showed way to much of James Irvin, and for what?…. An @ss kickin’.. he needs to be on an undercard
like all the other fighters who test positive… LOSERS!
Wait, I thought they all tested clean? LOL!
What is that? Is that some type of anabolic agent?
Methadone is used to get heroin and other opiate-dependant addicts off of heroin/opiate-based-drug-of-choice (such as oxycontin). I am not familiar with Oxymorphone, but the obvious guess is that it is some type of pain killer.
Not many doctors prescribe Methadone in tablet form. It is usually found in liquid form and is dispensed from a “Methadone Clinic” where patients go there evey morning to get medicated. When you have clean urines, you get take home bottles and eventually just go once a week until you decrease your dose enough to the point that you no longer need it.
Hopefully, since then, Irvin has gotten a script of about 1,200 oxycontin 80’s to try and help ease the pain inflicted by Anderson’s fists.
He CRUMBLED from one punch.
Irvin was on top of his world for a few mths there and in a few days he’s at a low point. The quick KO was bad enough and now this.
I cant believe I bet on a methadone junkie.
I can’t believe you bet against Silva.
I just bet to see if I’d get lucky on the underdog.
i cn’t believe it, i could of had a V-8
I think he goes to the same doctor Anna Nicole did.
Methadone is used extensively for chronic pain. Its use for chronic pain by far surpasses it use in heroin addicts. It is long acting and not euphoric. It does, however, create a physical dependence. My guess is that he was training through a lot of pain. I guess the other option is just that the dude is addicted to pain killers.
He may be addicted to opiates, wheter just pain pills of a heroin addict. Most likely addicted to pain pills. and if that is the case the “dope sickness” you get from opiate adddiction is the worst flu and sick you have EVER had!!! You basically are bed ridden!!! So, if thats the case I can see Irvin taking metahadone to feel “normal” so he could fight and at least make a pay aday before getting kicked out of the UFC
And the ONLY way to get rid of it is take methadone and you feel “normal” again….or take NO opiates for a month or so
yeah, Methadone isnt really used to get high. Its more for addicted junkies trying to get off of the drugs. Percs, oxy’s and Fetanol are for getting high.
I dont know what Oxymorphone is, but if I had to guess I would say that it is a type of percocet like oxycodonem hydrocodone which come in forms of vicodin, endocettes, rocacettes and about 10 other different types of percs.
methadone is a pain reliever for severe pain and oxymorphone is like a cousin to morphine.both or big time pain killers.i seriously doubt his is trying to kick a needle habit and got this $hit on the side for something.if he had went to a doctor with any kind of pain needing either one of those two drugs he would’nt have been cleared to fight in the biggest fight of his carreer thus far.either way it was’nt a smart choice.
But the other thread said that everbody was clean. What happened?
What are the performance benefits of those 2 drugs?
No that was just for steroids.
no performance enhancing agents. basically manufactured heroin. apparently he’s a spiker.
A junkie fixer for that matter, wehehe!
Methadone and Oxymorphone are synthetic opiates. Painkillers. They can be got legitimately with a prescription but apparently Irvin didn’t have one, or else the Athletic Commission would have been informed ahead of time.
Doesn’t matter if he has a prescription or not he still is not allowed to take them before a fight or even near a fight really. Like the fighter who had a prescription to Addys but took one three days before a fight and had the fight cancelled
i thought he would have needed them after the fight and not before, and cogito is correct it does not matter if he had a script he is still not allowed to take them prior to the fight.
i think his point was that if he did have a prescription then the athletic commision would have been informed and would have called off the fight
Man whats up with all these positives on the drug tests lately, this is worse than baseball/football/basketball/boxing wtf is going on.
Your right Cannibal and that is probably what he meant. I think if you have a prescription however you can inform the commission and still follow through with the fight however you still cannot take the drug before the fight. That was the example of the addy because the guy had informed the CSAC that he had ADD and was approved for the fight until he failed his drug test 3 days prior to the fight. It also may be possible that he may have taken the drugs after the fight, I thought they immediatly do post fight testing as well.
On such a high profile fight.. you would think..you think Irvin would be extra carfeful from injesteing some funking type horse juice into his system.. and it didn’t help him one bit.
At what point in the article does it state he tested positive for anabolic steroids, i.e. equipoise or horse juice as you call it? You guys are crazy to think that professional athletes are not on painkillers. When there is that much money at stake, you cannot afford to be hurt. Professional football is flooded with it, trust me!
Take an advil.
nice
can you say “cut”. that stuff is some serious narcotics and would help a fighter to deal with pain before, during training, and also during the fight. this is very bad for irvin.
my guess is a training injury and he didn’t want to turn down the biggest fight of his career. Damn, guess he should have decided otherwise. I don’t think we’ll see Irvin in the Octagon for a while.
could be… mark kerr used to do the same sh!t. then again there’s always the possibility that he’s a junkie, afterall methadone is what they prescribe to heroin junkies trying to kick the habit, makes the withdrawls less severe.
Haven’t seen too many heroin addicts, but I can’t imagine too many of them walk around shredded at 205 lbs?
take a look at Kerr in his prime
Methadone means he’s a former heroin addict and indicates he’s clean (hopefully) and is taking it to help him stay clean. I wanna say he mentioned something about it - not specifically- but alluded to it during the countdown show. The Oxymorphone is a pain killer (a cousin of morphine), pretty strong stuff but if he is a former addict he needs alot more than most people because he receptors are shot. It’s a double edged sword- when you’re an addict you feel more pain and need more pain meds all for the same reason.
I’m not a doctor but Methadone to me is for Junkies as a substitute for Heroin.
However, after a little research, they both can be used as a chronic pain killer.
I’m guessing he broke something before the fight, otherwise I’m stuck
Even if your right.. Hermes may of had a similiat arugement..he got hurt during trianing and wanted to recover faster..These word s are a bit too scientific for the kid..Whatever it was ..it was an illegal substance..right? AT least it was wasnt weed.. cuz if this was another dimension.. and if he had beaten Silva.. to ruling would of been reversed. to a No contest.
He broke his foot a few months back training in Thailand. I assume it was not completly healed, but he could not pass up the opportunity of a lifetime to fight Anderson.
Exactly BNF.
Irvin wouldn’t get the chance to fight a champion again even though Silva is not champion of that weight division.
It may have been his foot, when he received the first punch from Silva, he was wincing bad. Obviously the punch can do that but I’m thinking it may be when Silva grabbed his leg. But then again he wouldn’t have kicked with it in the first place. Who knows, he obviously felt it necessary to take them.
PhilQNY: I’m not suggesting that he has a reasonable excuse, I’m simply throwing theories around as to why he took them.
I just checked the archives and it was reported on May 20th that he had a broken foot. 2 months is not enough time to heal, especially when 1 of those months you are training for Anderson Silva. Can you really blame him? It is still a stupid thing to do, but I can understand a little better now.
That foot was the reason why he threw such a lazy kick that Anderson caught so easily. Not to take anything away from Anderson, but this is the only possible scenario I can come up with.
Hopefully he has some kind of medical condition and all will be well. If not another one bites the dust
I knew he was on something when he claimed he was going to beat Silva in the clinch! LOL (Just Kidding).
It’s actually sad that he tested positive. I hope there’s a reasonable explaination for him testing positive.
Just did a search on wiki and Oxymorphone is a pretty powerful painkiller. They do relate it to morphine and that it can cause dependancy like morphine. I’m sure interested to know where this one goes.
Ask Wiki where it goes
Injection OR…Soppository. I hope the pills are small.
he probably decided he didnt wanna feel the pain of punches from anderson LOL i know i would probably do that too xD anderson hits hard..
i hope they keep him around though win or lose he has some highlight reel knockouts haha
Painkillers aren’t performance enhancing drugs and neither is weed.
It depends on how you want to define ‘performance enhancing’. If he broke his foot and can’t walk right–let alone kick–because it hurts and then takes some pain-killers and is suddenly able to run around and kick, it would seem the argument could be made that they are ‘performance enhancing’.
Now as for the weed? I’m sure it would help him eat twice as many Doritos.
Good point, That was the commission’s argument for taking the win away from Nick Diaz when he fought Gomi.
Man i love that fight, such a shame that the best night of Diaz’s life was tarnished for smoking weed.
Sick submission, i was tapping watching it let alone getting choked out.
Anyway ho hum i digress.
Basically like BNF and Auto said ^ he was coming in with an injury and use the meds to eliminate the pain to help him train.
Feel slightly bad for him really, almost quite honourable that he didn’t want to pull out and f*ck over the UFC and fans.
Its very very different to the Sherk, Timmy, Bonnar situations IMO.
Lets not forget he broke his foot which caused him to pull out of the fight against Rashad in the UK ppv a few months back. It was probably still bothering him and he just took these b/c of the great opportunity to main event a ufc event. Tough break Sandman, time to take your suspension, and if the UFC feels like making an example out of you, take your release too. Hopefully he comes back but with a stacked LHW division dont be surprised if we’ve seen the last of the Sandman in the octagon.
He is also best friends with scott smith. wouldnt besurprised to see him in elite xc
YO GUYS CHK THIS OUT :
THE DUDE BETS WEED AT A CASINO.. he thinks he bets too much weed and takes some back!! When theydo the close up of the bag.. that buddy looks good. He had more then an ounce on him.. and because he tried to bet..they’re going to charge him with intent to distribute!!!! lol!!!!!
CHK IT OUT:
http://www.jokeroo.com/funnyvideos/man_bets_with_weed_at_casino.html
5 Card Bud!!! How high was he? What the f@#k was he thinking!?!?!?!?
That was too funny Phil!
HAHAHA what was he thinking??? Probably some good kronik! I fret If I have a roach in my car. Where can I get a cannabis club card?
CALIFORNIA!
Maybe he was asking the dealer if he could take some cards to use as roaches (don’t know what you guys call them lol)
Whilst we are off subject a little, here is something that is bugging me: -
Everytime I weigh myself on the bathroom scales, I find myself posing as if participating in a UFC weigh-in. My pose of choice is AA’s. Am I alone lol???
yes
I do it also auto haha, not sure what fight it was, but I do the Drew Ficket, when he slaped his knee then does he abs pose haha.
umm lol maybe not fully alone there
At least I’m not alone Chase lol.
Yeah haha, it just feels like i need to do it haha.
Mine just happens automatically, no pun intended.
Just before I step off, I raise my arms to the sides and out pops my tongue LMAO
Same with me, Like I can’t help but do it haha, pluse it’s pretty funny. the tounge thing is pretty funny also haha.
Dammnit! That’s cool. All I ever do is get mad at my scale and scowl at it intensely.
Ha ha, thats so fu*king funny, proper made me laugh out loud in an otherwise boring day at work…
I DO IT TOO!!!!!!!!!
I like a bit of a Saun Sherk tense up personally.
While were on the subject, now this is really sad…
Walking to the train station i have to go through a tunnel/underpass which serves as a perfect walk in, i have to battle to not raise my arm and shadow box as i burst out into the arena (i mean park) on the other side.
For this i like a bit of ‘Welcome To The Jungle’, a la Rich Franklin at 77 banging out of my IPOD.
There i said it, thats the first step admitting youve got a problem!
LMAO NickJ.
I know the type of underpasses you are talking about so can understand the temptation.
I’m luck enough that the scales face the wall so the wife doesn’t see the tongue.
What a relief to know I’m not the only one with a problem lol
lol
the bud did look good, lol
LMAO. good vid phil, keep em comming.
this reminds me of that cops episode when the dude had the joint stuck behind his ear, and the cop asked him if he ever used drugs. the dude “said ive never used drugs in my life” oe something like that with the joint clearly sticking out between his ear.
Lol…I want in on that guy’s home games.
Nice! We had a guy here in Richmond a few years ago who won “Dumbest crime of the year” in our local paper. He was on the way in to the courthouse for a traffic ticket and was emptying his pockets for the guards before going thru the metal detector and forgot he had an 8-ball in his pocket. He puts it in the tray w/o thinking and gets slammed up against the wall and arrested! I LOVE stupid people, they make me feel so much better about myself.
At least he can take comfort in knowing that he is now one of Kid Rock’s heroes.
Nice.
if irvin took these med right before the fight, they would be considered performance enhancing. alot of these painkillers like vicodin and percocet speed you up and also dull alot of pain. the meds he took are alot stronger too. he cheated and should be treated as such. theres no way in hell that irvin didnt know that these drugs were illegal and probably hope that they might go undetected or not be tested for.
These definitely don’t speed you up. I work in an ER and what he’s on makes you nod off standing up. He’s obviously been on the Methadone for a while (at least I can’t imagine it’s new), maybe because of the short notice of the fight he miscalculated this time. Who knows? I don’t know about the Oxymorphone, but it must suck to have to put your sobriety on the line every time you fight. I wonder if the commission will change this to a no contest….
thank you! i’ve been on percocet and vicodine for kindney stone and mos def DO NOT speed you up.
and you dont get high on those at all? not even at when u first started using them?
Nope - they really make you drowsy; knocked me out. I guess opiates should get the assist on Silva’s win.(not that he needed any help)
Watching Silva at 205 makes me want to see him fight Machida. I think it’d be a great technical matchup.
It’s not enough to get knocked out in the first round. Poor Idiot.
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Mania, is there any reason why most of my posts are delayed or not shown at all??
I’m starting to get a little offended Mamma Mia
Happens to me ALL THE TIME!!! and it gets old
he had to been in some serious pain of some sort.oxymorphone is like a cousin to morphine.and methadone is some killer $hit as well.i dont think he is a junkie or is trying to rehab a needle habit.he prolly got this stuff on the side cuz if went to a doctor they prolly wouldnt let him fight the biggest fight he’s ever had.either way it wasnt the smartest move.
now thats my boy, back off everybody he was taking pain meds ahead of time because he knew his ass was gonna be hurtin. he was j