1. It may enhance performance, but doesn’t proper diet, weight lifting, yoga? Maybe we should ban Yoga? It may cause long term damage, who knows?

2. Why all this concern for “fighter health”? Oxymoron. If you care about these guys maybe they should change profession,ehh. After taking several beatings roids are the least of someones concern.

Get off you high horses. We watch humans beat the living shit out of each other, and your worried about how roids might hurt them? Hippocrates

Secondly, I’m not a big fan of Sherdog, but Josh Gross does a helluva job. His commentary and analysis/reports is usually well-though out, objective and he rarely if ever takes the fanboy bait. As far as radio shows go, FightOpinion could learn a thing or two from the Beatdown. The level of commentary from Fightopinion radio doesn’t measure up and I stopped listening because I couldn’t stomach hearing Erin responding to questions she clearly wasn’t qualified to answer with “I don’t know…”

I don’t believe at all that UFC not drug testing at UFC 69 or UFC 70 is ‘insidious’ or a ‘conspiracy.’ I am arguing, however, that UFC has publicly boxed itself into a corner on the drug testing issue and has to resolve this quickly if they plan to run in new markets with inexperienced commissions.

In the case of UFC 69 and 70, the local athletic commission either didn’t have an existing process established (as in Houston), or there was no commission in place at all (UK). In both of these cases, the UFC has no authority to test.

What if they did test, and someone on the UFC 71 card failed for pot. Who would have decided the punishment? What would have made the difference between 3 months and 6 months suspension, and how much to fine?

The IFL, I don’t think the team concept will pick up, but I am going to get a bit of their stock at $4 a share!

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Well you have make it relative to north america. It really didn’t become a story until the financial troubles started to ramp up. And when it came to the acquisition they were way ahead of everybody (like they are for a lot of stuff, crocop being another example). They like everyone else didn’t want to jump the gun. And yes zach we all know, you said before everyone else. You can say I told you so. Now you can bash the IFL and bodog since pride is dead.

Face it they are the biggest in terms of online coverage and espn is smart in partnering up with them.

It wasn’t just Sherdog who blew covering the biggest scandal in the history of MMA as far as the English MMA media sites are concerned.

With that stated, there were so many ways in which the media put their heads in the sand like ostriches about covering this. The reality is that most, if not all of the top MMA writers read this site daily or every-other-day. They know exactly what is going on in Japan and around the world. Which is why I’m extremely hard to give any of the major writers a pass whatsoever – because they know better than the way they acted.

If this was a case of a group of writers just being dumb imbeciles, then I could rationalize why they didn’t cover the PRIDE implosion the way they did. But they’re not. The majority of English MMA writers understand the business and how it works.

Many of the what you called ‘cheaper talent’ are now contenders in 2007 (Yushin Okami, Gabriel Gonzaga, Brandon Vera, Jon Fitch, Thiago Alves, Martin Kampmann, Roger Huerta etc).

It’s not as if these fighters weren’t hot prospects before they fought in the UFC either. It’s that these self professed ‘hardcore fans’, aren’t educated on MMA outside of UFC or PRIDE.

I’ll watch a young Jon Fitch fight another hungry up-and-comer over Fedor vs. Zulu anyday.

Iain, there’s was one article written in relation to the scandal last year, one. There’s your ESPN of MMA.

Also Buentello didn’t fight Arlovski in 2006.

Face it they are the biggest in terms of online coverage and espn is smart in partnering up with them.