Should MMA fighters be allowed to fight if they are on TRT?

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For these reasons (and many others that I will not bore you with), I
believe that TRT should not be allowed in elite-level competition. It is
too easy to cheat and very difficult and time consuming to monitor the
proper treatment process.


The bottom line is that TRT was developed and intended for the medically necessary
treatment of a small subset of young boys who need this hormone to
develop normally and have a shot at a more normal life – and not,
amazingly, healthy young men who want a shot at the title.

OU wrote:

[i]"My question is why would Marquardt be allowed to fight in NJ if
his levels were high and why wasn’t Dan Miller notified? Nate still
looks bad but NJSACB looks even worse. If Nate is right about this how
can you let someone fight with elevated levels of test?" -Greg Savage

Farmer1906 wrote:

It shouldn't be allowed. Find a new job if you can't be good at it without extra help.

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"No I will not [bring him back]," he reiterated. "This is a tough
thing for me to talk about. It's tough to talk about stuff like this
when you can't talk about it. The way I look at it, you know he already
tested positive for steroids once. Then he has this issue in New Jersey,
and now this issue here going into [Pittsburgh]. It's an issue. People
are like 'give him a second chance.' This would be a fourth chance.
"Do I think he was trying to cheat? Let's put it this way, he was
either trying to cheat, or he has a horrible doctor," White said. "You
tell me, which one is it, I don't know. This is one of those things
where I can't talk about this guy's medical records but it's pretty
clear what this is.
"Nate Marquardt's a really nice guy," White said. "He's sweet, he's
polite, he's very humble. But it is what it is. Like I said to the media
earlier, it's a lot easier to go after Josh Barnett.
He's abrasive and rude, and he's a d***. It's easier to point at Josh
Barnett and go, 'ugh, Josh Barnett.' What's the difference? The
difference is Nate Marquardt is really nice, and a real humble and sweet
guy."
"I'm no doctor but this whole testosterone replacement therapy I
guess is basically for guys who get to a certain age, which is normally
supposed to be in your 40s, or even 50s where your testosterone levels
start to drop so they give you just a little bit to keep a young man's
level," White said. "These guys who used steroids before have trouble
producing testosterone so they have to bump their levels up. But when
your levels get bumped above what it normally should be, that's
performance enhancing, as far as I'm concerned and I'm sure as far as
many athletic commissions are concerned.
"It's an ugly loophole. I think there [are] guys that need to do it
because they have to, but then there [are] guys doing it because you can
do it, because you can say 'I'm in here for testosterone replacement.'
If you're a professional athlete, you should be going to a credible
doctor who says 'yes you need this thing because your testosterone is
low and we're going to give you [a small amount] to boost you up to the
right levels' and when you do your blood tests your levels should be
what a normal guy's levels should be.
"Chael Sonnen,
I think a lot of people want to see Sonnen fight," he said. "This guy
made some bad choices, made some mistakes, has paid his dues and now he
gets to come back and hopefully do things smarter this time."

GDPofDRC wrote:

double standards, through and through.

GDPofDRC wrote:

It's funny, when I was driving home from work yesterday there were two different radio commercials for "Men, do you miss the day of your youth when you had boundless energy, were a sex machine, were happy, and energetic? But ______ testosterone now!"

OU wrote:

GDPofDRC wrote:

double standards, through and through.

What Dana REALLY said "I can still make money off of Chael and Nate isn't that big of a draw"

Birdofthad wrote:

the reaason why ythey have low levels needs to be examined

In Marquardts case its pretty damn clear he got off the roids and his levels dropped into vagina levels, read between the lines people

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"My levels were so low they were off the charts. I was always tired
and getting sick a lot. I couldn't even tell you [how to abuse it]. I've
never gone above normal ranges. All I know is that I'm not as tired and
I don't get as sick as I used to. I always [monitor] my own [out of
competition] just to cover my own ass. The only time people get
monitored now is at the fights. I think it might be good to have
stricter monitoring where people are getting tested throughout the
year."

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"What you can't have are guys abusing this to the point where their
levels are at some super-human factor, giving them this performance
enhancement. There's got to be more random testing. It seems like,
possibly, guys are getting outside the boundary while they're training
and managing it down where once the week of the fight [has arrived],
they take the test and they're fine. I think that there needs to be this
random testing to make sure no one's abusing it. I think we came off
with a pretty strong response to Nate Marquardt,
and kind how we feel about TRT. Our stance is we're working with
commissions to say 'look this whole thing has got to come to an end.' If
you are going to have some kind of therapy, not only can you not be at
the top end of the range, you can't be anywhere near performance
enhancing."

killerofchicken wrote:

haha, i was looking for this thread to post that... i even had it copied!

damn you

freakzilla wrote:

So stoned brains work faster than drunk ones

freakzilla wrote:

So stoned brains work faster than drunk ones