Australiensiska ”Submission Radio” intervjuade häromdagen UFCs mellanviktare Tim Kennedy, då han valde att prata om Vitor Belfort, som tidigare i år åkte fast under ett slumpmässigt dopningstest. Kennedy kritiserar hans användande av prestationshöjande och påstår att Belfort fortfarande injicerar diverse preparat och steroider hemma i Brasilien.
Det här är vad han hade att säga om saken:
Right now (Belfort)’s down in Brazil, or back in you know California, training his butt off and injecting anything that he wants to and loving it, and nobody’s testing him, or like his doctor – when I say his, I’m making quotation fingers ”doctor” – so he’s like dripping testosterone out of his eyeballs right now, how old was he when he first failed a drug test, like 18? For anabolic steroids? So he’s being using for 20 years. Your body doesn’t function naturally now. – He’s what, 37 or 38? So like 18 years -But there’s no possible way that he could compete at a high level against the Chris Weidmans, the me’s, the Luke Rockholds without chemically enhancing himself. There’s no way. I don’t care if he’s like, drinking Jesus’ blood like he says he is or whatever, it doesn’t work that way. Like, he’s been using steroids for like 15 or 20 years, and he still is using them. If he ever tries to get clean, he can’t compete at this level.
Det har ännu inte fattats något beslut av NAC (Nevada Atlethic Commission) om vad Belfort kommer få för straff för att han hade för höga testostronsnivåer när han testades.
Kennedy fortsätter med att säga att han inte alls blev överraskad att ett flertal fighters åkt fast för EPO. Fler dopningsfall kommer att skaka sporten enligt Kennedy.
So guys have definitely been on it for a really long time on a whole bunch of different stuff. You know, if you ask every single fighter, every single guy if they’ve ever been blood tested, the vast majority of them will say no. The stuff that they’re catching these guys on are things that you could only find with blood tests. So you know, only recently in the past few months have we tested guys you know, for HGH, EPO, you know stuff that you could only find in the blood, and ironically those guys that they test keep failing. So it’s definitely been there and there’s not like there’s an increase of it, it’s just (that if) you’re testing for it you’re going to find it, and a whole bunch of guys are using it, and a lot more than they’ve found.
What can we do it about it? Well, test. Test, test, test more guys. Like, you know they’ve tested like six or seven dudes; Jon Jones, Texeira – both of those guys came back clean – Demetrious (Johnson), Ali (Bagautinov) both tested, Demetrious came back clean Ali did not, Chael failed obviously, Wanderlei ran from the athletic commission guy that came in to take the sample, Vitor Belfort failed, you know these are reoccurring themes here that if you’re going to test guys, their gonna fail. So you have to test more of them to really understand where the issue is and how many guys are doing it.
Kennedy möter härnäst Yoel Romero på UFC 178 i Las Vegas, Nevada.
