Benson: Guilty by association after PED test fails

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                    <p>The testing fro PEDs in mixed martial arts recently got more sophisticated, and confirmed what the hardcore fanbase has long understood - it is a massive problem. There are however clean fighters too, and they are tarred by association, and they are not happy.</p>

Benson Henderson spoke with Damon Martin for FOX Sports in Colorado on Thursday, and "Smooth" is ruffled at the guilt by association.

"Guilty by association," said Henderson. "It's not a good look for the UFC fighters to consistently pop up positive, positive, positive, for all these PEDs. It's a bad look for the sport.  It's a bad look for us fighters.  I have to defend myself for doing drugs? I'm not the last guy, but I shouldn't have to defend myself from doing drugs.

"We all know I don't, I know I don't, but the fact that I have to defend myself because of guilt by association, I don't think that's the way it should be."

"Those PED's, I can understand from a competitor's aspect, all the true competitors know what it's like to do anything - 'I'm going to run through that wall if it gives me that much more of an edge over my competitors' - but then there's lines. There's lines you cannot cross.  You cannot cross this line.  It's a touchy, iffy, weird subject."

"What you need to do is get your PEW and PEC -- a performance enhancing wife and a performance enhancing coach," said Henderson with a smile.  "I've got both of those so I'm good."

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Phone Post 3.0

Benson is a cool dude. I'm not his biggest fan but it's hard to dislike the guy. Phone Post 3.0

I agree with him.
If I was clean I'd be pissed that the current outlook of a lot of fans is that everyone is doing it. Phone Post 3.0

Love this guy. Definitely at the top of the P4P clean fighters. I hope he wins this weekend. Phone Post 3.0

Benson is on PEDs just like everyone else

PEW and PEC made me cringe. Phone Post 3.0

Performance enhancing wife, absolute gold lol Phone Post 3.0

js138 - 
knee smash - Benson is on PEDs just like everyone else
The fuck he is you goof.

He's the only fighter I'd bet my house on that he will never piss hot. Phone Post 3.0

You never know. Don't be so naive. You could very well be right, but it would be dumb to bet your house on it.

Jeremy Horn came on this site many years ago and said that 80 to 90% of fighters use some sort of PED and that he knew many of them. That was enough for me.

It would not surprise, at all, if any former champion or any current or former top 15 fighter was discovered to have used PED's. Even Royce Gracie pissed hot, people!! It's usually the ones that cry the loudest that are the worst abusers.

"Let me start by telling you this: I have never used steroids, period." -Rafael Palmeiro, in front of a congressional hearing, just a few months before he pissed hot..

SupesUp - I agree with him.
If I was clean I'd be pissed that the current outlook of a lot of fans is that everyone is doing it. Phone Post 3.0
Yup Phone Post 3.0

I have no knowledge of Benson taking peds but hes got to realize why people are coming to that conclusion. If he's really clean i applaud him but i can't say i don't have doubt's about him and every other fighter using peds.

isn't he a super Jesus-cum-all-over-me type xtians too?

Not like we ever seen any of that type being a lying hypocrite.


Yet I still will blame the fans and media if it turns out he isn't as squeaky as he's protesting he is.

can somebody explain to me, how its possible for fighters to be muscled up in this conditioned sport?

I need a performance enhancing wife lol

js138 - 
knee smash - Benson is on PEDs just like everyone else
The fuck he is you goof.

He's the only fighter I'd bet my house on that he will never piss hot. Phone Post 3.0

LOL, dumb bet to make

SensoriaUtopia - 
knee smash - Benson is on PEDs just like everyone else

Posts like this really need to be deleted or dealt with, it's garbage to start hurling accusations of fighters this way, nonsense

grow the fuck up kid.

js138 - 
PitbullTodd -
js138 - 
knee smash - Benson is on PEDs just like everyone else
The fuck he is you goof.

He's the only fighter I'd bet my house on that he will never piss hot. Phone Post 3.0

LOL, dumb bet to make
And I'll make it 10,000 times.

He is one fighter who will never get popped for PED's because the dude doesn't use them.

Genetics play a huge factor in your build. His brother is in incredible shape, almost the exact build but he is slimmer. Phone Post 3.0

What does genetics have to do with anything? Sometimes, PED's are done for recovery, not building mass.

Neither Barnett nor Silva were trying to build mass, for example. Neither was Royce.

You may be right, but it's a dumb bet to make. If Jerry Rice was willing to use "stickum" on his gloves, I'll believe that any athlete is capable of bending the rules.

i'm not saying benson is but at this point no one including yourself (js138) can claim with 100% certainty any ufc fighter is clean

js138 - 
Morpheus1976 - can somebody explain to me, how its possible for fighters to be muscled up in this conditioned sport?
Once again genetics. It plays a huge role, and your caloric intake as well.

It's possible to have a large frame and fight MMA it's all about Calories in vs calories burned in a day. Benson compared to actual body builders wouldn't be that big.

However, someone built like Palhares, woodley, that's where you might be suspect, but it's not Impossible. Phone Post 3.0

i disagree with you, natty would be like the diaz brothers, fighters based on cardio.
i also think its not like a light switch on or off,
but more using a little bit to abusing the fuck out of it.
the eye test doesn't always work, like barnett or timmy.
because of his muscle mass, bendo is more than an average suspect.

js138 - 
PitbullTodd -
js138 - 
knee smash - Benson is on PEDs just like everyone else
The fuck he is you goof.

He's the only fighter I'd bet my house on that he will never piss hot. Phone Post 3.0

LOL, dumb bet to make
And I'll make it 10,000 times.

He is one fighter who will never get popped for PED's because the dude doesn't use them.

Genetics play a huge factor in your build. His brother is in incredible shape, almost the exact build but he is slimmer. Phone Post 3.0


Benson's brother was at the UFC Fight Night in Phoenix and everyone thought he was Benson.  I knew he wasn't Benson because he doesn't drink and Benson's brother had a beer.  I think he would be the fighter least likely to use PEDs.