Would you like to know what the Dr. will say?

He will say… “Stop fighting in cages.”

Maybe he needs a co-host or something.

Some for cosmetic reasons… I’m sure that you could pick them out of a lineup.

But with serious fighters, I think that it is more for training. It is referred to as “helping your body recover faster,” but more accurately… it is getting your testosterone levels back to where they should be (and beyond often).

quote from some Dr. (I don’t know if he’s a quack, but I’ve heard it independently as well):

“it is an unsustainable myth that hard training increases testosterone levels. In every credible study done on training and its effects on blood whether in college athletes, Olympians, or troops in training or in battle, the stress and physical fatigue of exercise, skill performance and physical activity decreases testosterone and increases estrogen”

I think the steroids are used less for explosiveness & strength than thought by outside observers because just about everyone cuts weight… It’s not like in football or pro wrestling where there is pressure to be bigger.

In the early MMA days, the big juicers all gassed out.

I have never taken steroids.

And fighters usually take a light week before the fight for the very same reason… “to recover.”

But hard into training, your testosterone is low and it really effects motivation.

It’s more like…

to recover my balls!!

“Remember guys, we are talking COMBAT sports here, not cycling or baseball”

This really is the point.

It just seems so pompous for an MMA fan to be outraged at drug use — “Gentlemen for my enjoyment, please beat each other about the face and attempt to rip each other’s limbs off, but oh, could you do that without drugs?”

Hermes Franca, his family, his mom, his agent, the UFC…they should be outraged at Franca. But the rest of us?

It’s sweet that so many *care* about the health of the men who they are cheering to be knocked unconcious with the most vicious of strikes possible.

Again, none of this means steroids or drugs should be allowed in MMA. But drug abuse is rampant throughout society, so invariably it’ll seep into MMA. If people weren’t getting caught…then that would be a problem.

I spend about 1/3 of the time looking at fightopinion than I used to, because its practically like reading an mma tabloid these days. If I am counting correctly this is the sixth, possibly seventh steroid tirade ive seen on the site this week.

And maybe I’d read a 1/3rd of your comments if you actually bothered using a valid e-mail, as opposed to trying to trick the spam filters into buying your fake one.

I love how the trolls are out in full force tonight, yet none of them want to use valid e-mails or leave valid information about who they are behind.

So, I guess we should get back on topic and talk about lighter issues. Hey, let’s try a yakuza story link!