Same old roid song
By Carlos Arias, MMA writer for OC Register and friend of FightTicker.com
It’s hard for me to believe former UFC lightweight champion Sean Sherk when he claims he never took any banned or illegal substances.
Sherk tested positive for the anabolic steroid nandrolone following his bout with Hermes Franca last July. The California State Athletic Commission fined him $2,500 and suspended him for a year. After two delayed appeals, the commission eventually upheld its decision, but voted 4-2 to cut the suspension to six months.
Sherk maintained his innocence throughout the entire ordeal, but that’s what all athletes that test positive for banned substances do.
It wasn’t me, it was the people handling the sample.
It wasn’t me, it was the lab conducting the tests.
It wasn’t me, it was a contaminated supplement and I didn’t even know what I was taking.
IT WASN’T ME! I DIDN’T DO IT! ROID RAGE!!!
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I don't know whether or not
I don't know whether or not he did or didn't but I thought some of the details surrounding the testing sounded fishy and should have been looked into further such as the testing machines not being fully cleaned of residual traces after each test.
Either way you forgot to mention in your article that both fighters were recently tested and both came back with clean results thus far.
I'm looking forward to this fight as well as this card.
I've just seen too many
I've just seen too many athletes test positived. I and then argue the very same points over and over. Harold Jacobs has been the lawyer for a lot of them. I'm glad they both tested clean as they should. I hate getting that e-mail about the drug test results and just hoping everybody comes back clean. It's a rare occurance these days. UFC 84 is going to be a great card.