Sep 08 2010
UFC President Dana White Wants More Information on Steroid Allegation Against Shane Carwin
The UFC President wants to have a different approach in handling steroid cases which involve UFC fighters. UFC President Dana White told the media that he prefer to take a neutral stand first before taking any action against his employee, heavyweight fighter Shane Carwin. White said that he needs more information on the steroid allegation rather than giving immediate sanctions to Carwin.
Last month Shane Carwin was named by a prosecutor as one of the customers of Applied Pharmacy services. The company was involved in the illegal distribution and prescription of anabolic steroids in the country. He was one of the 22 professional athletes and bodybuilders who purchased steroids through the help of doctors conspiring with the pharmacy owners. WWE wrestler Kurt Angle was also included in the list.
Shane Carwin tried to be silent on the issue. His lawyers prevented him to discuss his alleged involvement in the Applied Pharmacy case because of legal issues. Though he posted on his twitter account that they are confronting the issue but declined to make public statements.
White defended their steroid policy saying that the UFC is regulated by the government. His fighters are drug tested so the news that Carwin is involved in steroid use should be investigated carefully. “What everybody doesn’t understand is, boxing and mixed martial arts are regulated by the government,” he told the Fight Fix. “We’re the only sports that are regulated by the government. Meaning that when the drug testing is done, the government drug tests them. The government oversees all the medicals and everything else,” White said.
He also defended Carwin saying that the alleged purchase and prescriptions happened years ago. Carwin’s career in the UFC was clean of any performance enhancing drug as evidenced by his negative test results in every fight. “First of all, he’s never tested positive for anything after being tested by the government. He popped up on a Balco-type list. He popped up on a list with all these guys that supposedly were getting [steroids] from these doctors years ago,” said White. The UFC president wants to get more facts on the issue before making any decision. “I have to find out what all the facts are first, see what happens and then we’ll decide what we’re gonna do.”
Mixed martial arts is a sport that needs power, strength and bigger muscles. So the issue of using steroids is not surprising. However, sports officials should do something on this steroid issue to prove that their sport is really clean of performance enhancing substances. This should not only focus on Shane Carwin but also on other fighters in UFC. There were already a few fighters who failed steroid tests like Ken Shamrock but the real numbers could be higher.
[...] UFC President Dana White doesn’t believe that the use of steroids and other performance enhancing drugs is a major problem in his sport. He even contends the statement of one of his welterweight fighter Dennis Hallman who told the media that almost 50% of the fighters are involved in the use of PED’s. Although Hallman can’t prove his allegation, the recent news about another fighter failing a steroid test is something that may validate his assumption. [...]
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Done with MMA, Football, Baseball, Hockey, Basketball, Underwater Basket weaving, ha,ha,ha etc.
I am tired of all the cheaters and steroids. If a sport cannot do olympic style blood and urine testing for hgh, steroids, etc, then they are not going to get my money. Look at baseball. Even though the sport is boring and has many problems, steroids killed baseball’s revenue. I see the empty stands and see how cameras try to manipulate seating shots to make it appear there is a full stadium. A real man stands on his own two feet for what he is and struggles to change his weaknesses into strengths, not cheat with steroids. All those mma cheaters are just a bunch of losers, and regardless of the media hype or money thrown they will always look like that in everyone’s eyes, period. Why don’t I give everyone a bat who didn’t take steroids to even the playing field. Americans know their “pro” sports are tainted, and we don’t need to wait for congress to fix you. Everyone speaks of mma like it is a circus rather than a sport because of all the controversy. You are going the same route as fake wrestling or strongman competitions that make no money because of steroid losers. It is cause and effect. Less fans, less attendance at other venues like bars, means less money for all businesses around. Regulate steroids before it destroys your source of income. I know I am not going to any events until you fix this crap.
List of Steroid Cheaters, some are still with their organizations after a slap on the wrist.ex Chris Leben
JOSH BARNETT (now with strikeforce), TIM SYLVIA, KIMO LEOPOLDO, NATE MARQUARDT, VITOR BELFORT, STEPHAN BONNAR, PAWEL NASTULA, KIT COPE, JOHNNIE MORTON, ROYCE GRACIE, JORGE ORTIZ, PHIL BARONI, SEAN SHERK (still with UFC), HERMES FRANCA, ANTHONY TORRES, BILL MAHOOD, ADAM SMITH, JASON WINTHERS, RUBEN VILLAREAL, DENNIS HALLMAN, ALEXANDER CRISPIM, CARINA DAMM, ALEXANDRE NOGUEIRA, ANTONIO SILVA, EDWIN DEWEES, CHRIS LEBEN (still with UFC), KIRILL SIDELNIKOV, KEN SHAMROCK, JOSH BARNETT, COLE PROVINCE, CHAEL SONNEN (still with UFC), SHANE CARWIN (not caught but federal link to purchase of steroids).
Really, you cheat you get another chance, ****!!!
For everyone who supports steroid use, I don’t know what to say. You are either born a man or not, and compensating by drugs pretty much answers those questions. Everyone can see when most anyone really abuses steroids, and notes records broken, and people dying of cancer early. I hope those that support it take it and die from the stuff so the rest of us can enjoy this rock with a few less losers on it.
Piss tests are not good enough because any cheater can use a catheter and fill his bladder with whatever at any time. The testing is also not that costly, for blood and urine, so that argument don’t fly with me either. Also sports need to publicly state who was on what whenever they fail a test. Football and baseball keep their information private other than announcing a failed PED. I hear about a steroid user and I boycott and bad mouth.
Dana White you are a ****
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