Tidigare under året införde UFC ett förbud mot TRT (testosterone replacement therapy), något som bland andra drabbade tungviktaren Antonio ”Bigfoot” Silva. Nu kommer Antonio att behöva operera sig då han inte kan använda sig av behandlingen, och detta hade hans manager Alex Davis att säga om det hela via ”MMAJunkie”:
Antonio’s acromegaly is caused by a cyst on the pituitary gland. The only way to access it is through the nose – it’s underneath the brain. So after this fight, I’m going to have to take him from here to head surgery because of the ban on TRT. We’re taking a guy that really needed TRT and forcing him to do an operation, which he did not have to do otherwise.
It’s not necessarily a risky procedure. He’s going to be very well treated, but would you like to have someone operating on your head? We could have done radiotherapy, but radiotherapy would possibly make his testosterone go even lower, so we can’t do that. Surgery is the only option we have.
For them to ban TRT for everybody because somebody else is misusing it is wrong. To me, it’s completely ridiculous. He really needs it. His testosterone level normally is 70. I think that he deserves and he should be able to be at the same level as any other normal human being.
Silva kommer under morgondagen att ta sig an Andrei Arlovski, då de möts under ”UFC: Fight Night 51” i Brasilien.
