Derek Brunson mötte Yoel Romero under 2014, som nyligen blev flaggad efter en dopningskontroll av USADA. Romero hävdade sedan tillsammans med sin manager att det hela berodde på ett kosstillskott som innehöll en olistad ingrediens och inte på grund av några prestationshöjande preparat.
Brunson köper dock inte Romeros förklaring och kommenterade detta i ett Twitter-inlägg.
Det här hade Brunson att säga:
I think I have every advantage over him except for jiu-jitsu. I’m faster, stronger, and I’m the better wrestler.
I’d rather just go in the gym and put the hard work in. Lift weights and get stronger like that.
It’s no benefit of the doubt.
I was thinking, that’s the only thing for him to do at the moment. Because with the new laws that USADA have in place, it’s two years guaranteed and he’s an older guy so that’s gonna be pretty much his career.
So he’s gonna try and say all of this was a tainted supplement, so he can try and get a reduced sentence, but that’s complete bull, you know? I wanna see guys who get caught get the full time.
Honestly I don’t really care about the rankings. But yeah, it’s kinda – whatever, Natal is one of my friends and we share the same manager, but he lost to Ed Herman, and I knocked Ed Herman out in the first round.
I don’t plan on waiting again this long. I’m not gonna be ok with that.
I’m definitely going to put the pressure on the UFC, and my manager to go out there and get me a fight, you know, opposed to just sitting around, getting dropped in the rankings I guess because of activity, because the other guy was more active…
I’m not like hurting by any means, but I’m not really, you know, let me say, I’m not really cool with doing fighting just to break even.
