I agree. I also take exception to his comments towards the UFC title being a “paper belt,” and his title being the real one. By that logic, the lineage of the UFC title ends with Fedor Emelianenko, as Barnett’s first loss since beating Randy Couture was to Mirko Cro Cop, and then Cro Cop went on to lose to Emelianenko.

If the CSAC lets him off on this technicality, that would open doors for fighters simply buying supplements known to be contaminated, not take them but take steroids instead, and then present the supplements if they happen to have cycled off the steroids incorrectly. Either that, or the CSAC will have to maintain a database of supplement brands and lots known to be contaminated.

That would be ridiculous. Whether Sherk is “guilty” or not is not relevant to me. The only relevant point is if the urine tests were accurate or not. If they were (which it seems they are), then throw the book at him. End of story. Any other outcome opens doors for gaming the rules.

My guess is that they wanted an extension in order to get testing on the supplements that Sherk took. Like i wrote a few days ago in another thread here on the page, german scientists discovered that approximately 16% of all supplements from the USA, 11% from Germany and a whopping 24% from the Netherlands are contaminated with steroids and other substances, so that you can test positive without knowingly being on something. And make no mistake, even if he was just using american made supplements – the 16% is a HUGE number in itself. In UFC All Access we saw Sherk taking lots and lots of supplements (they showed 50 in the show, i read elsewhere that he was taking more than a 100 in total). So, theoretically (guessing that he didn’t have the “Kölner Liste” to check the supplements against) 8 of the supplements he was taking in that show would have been contaminated, which in turn could’ve raised his testosterone and nandrolone levels.

Yes, this is all theoretical, and sure, he could “simply” be on the juice. But after reading about these heavily contaminated supplements and seeing Sherk popping that stuff like crazy, i’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. At least for now.

Well, it’s nice to see how quickly false information spreads, I guess. (shrugs)

I agree with the general sentiment of what “Jeremy (not that Jeremy)” wrote about Josh Barnett’s appearance on Fight Opinion Radio. I couldn’t help but lose a little bit of respect for him as a result of the tone of his comments about steroids on the radio show.

What a classy blog. This will be the first and last time I ever look at it.”

Classy? No, but some very good humor isn’t. Lighten up a little. Their blog is great.

Classless, yet incredible and intelligent humorists:

Lenny Bruce
Richard Pryor
Doug Stanhope
Bill Hicks
Patrice O’Neal

…to name but a few.