TJ Dillashaw claims he did not benefit from previous PED use

[the_decimator]

Could it be from the insanely low level of body fat???

[anon56930202]

@Hong_Kong_Phooey

to really slander you

It’s not slander/libel.

He used them and got caught.

It’s the truth.

[MasterofMartialArts]

@SportScience

That’s a common statement from PED users.

It’s a common statement from people who recieved financial help from their parents. Often those people will say that they are self made and were not helped.

Usually it’s a good idea to downplay any help you have recieved in your life. That being said its also important to appear humble.

People who were given advantages or took advantages are generally disliked. So they pretend that those advantages had little effect or deny them happening at all.

I don’t hate on TJ for saying this or even thinking it. It’s very common, if I hate on TJ for this then I have to hate so many people for similar actions.

True but even saying TJ received help, he’s still obviously worked his ass off to get where he is. I can’t even tell you how many people I’ve met that have done literally nothing on their own, full grown adults with zero skills. If only they took the help they received and used it to propel them into something big….

[HillboFrateTrane]

…bvv

[jitzophrenic]

TJ tested positive for EPO in only one fight. He was TKO’d in 30 seconds and EPO is meant to enhance endurance, to help you outlast your opponent…so no, he did NOT benefit from PEDs whatsoever.

[J_Burgos]

@Hong_Kong_Phooey, pushing this to the main site.

[Taco_Muncher]

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[0hi0direct]

@HardysHalfGuard

Think so? I’m wondering if he’ll just try to come in with a wrestling heavy game, Aljo showed that Cory is beatable.

He basically already stated he’s coming in wrestling heavy for this one

[0hi0direct]

@jitzophrenic

he did NOT benefit from PEDs whatsoever

He hasn’t benefited from any that we have caught him taking.

I know, this is the part where you say “they tested all his previous b samples dumb ass!”.

The mfers are all doing something. Sometimes they fuck up and some trace amounts float around on the days they shouldn’t be there.

[Kentpaul]

Why take PED’s in the first place then if you don’t think they are of any benefit to you as athlete

[ons_ear]

TJ is just trying to convince himself that he doesn’t need the PEDs… I think he will lose this weekend … he is very skilled but his brittle chin makes him too vulnerable

[zimmerdj]

Blockquote

Idk man. Sure, he only TESTED positive once but I’m going to go out on a limb and assume he’s been using it for a while and botched the mask or whatever it is elite athletes do to get by w this shit.
As far as I’m concerned, everyone should be on PED’s… to an extent. What kind of dipshit world do we live in where we expect these athletes to wreck their bodies and not fix them. Because if they’re used correctly, PED’s are extremely beneficial to your long term physical health.

(Evidently, I’m too fucking dumb to include the quote of your post)

[SportScience]

I don’t know why you are sorry?

I am not saying privilege is the number one predictor of success.

I am saying its a good idea to downplay your privilage in social situations to appear more likable.

It’s just a social trick to make people like you more.

[SportScience]

I am not making a claim about what is right or wrong.

I’m simply saying that its smart to downplay the gifts you have been given, the peds you have taken, the money you have, your genetics and so on.

Its a social trick.

As a matter of fact, its smart to make yourself appear to have been much weaker than you were. To appear to have been poor when younger. To be the ugly duckling when you were growning up.

Once you learn that people downplay their advantages you see people do it all the time. And if you are smart you will do it too.

[william795]

His nipples definitely benefited from them in both girth & length! Oh on second thought I guess that’s not really a benefit…. Carry on, TJ.

[FingerorMoon]

@Hong_Kong_Phooey

T.J. Dillashaw says the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency has revisited every one of his previously collected samples in the wake of testing positive for erythropoietin, more commonly known as EPO.

Dillashaw (16-4 MMA, 12-4 UFC) returns from a two-year USADA suspension to face rising star Cory Sandhagen (14-2 MMA, 7-1 UFC) in the main event of UFC on ESPN 27 on Saturday, where he hopes to cement himself as the UFC bantamweight division’s No. 1 contender.

The former two-time UFC champion is well aware that he likely tainted his legacy when he popped for EPO in January 2019, but assures that it was a one-time mistake made when he was struggling to make the flyweight limit in a title-fight loss to then-champion Henry Cejudo.

So while he knows many are likely doubting his history as a clean fighter, Dillashaw says USADA has already made sure that the rest of his track record has been clean.

“People can go say whatever they want, and more power to them, that’s the decision I made, but USADA actually put me under a microscope after I got in trouble, man,” Dillashaw told Brendan Schaub on the latest edition of “Food Truck Diaries.” “They went back to all my fights that they ever collected my samples and retested all of them all the way back to my (Raphael) Assuncao fight after (Dominick) Cruz because they keep an A and B sample every time you get tested.”

He continued, “No matter what, it’s going to be like that. I made the mistake. That’s like USADA’s weapon to use against you, to really slander you so no one else wants to do this sh-t. Those questions are valid because I f-cked up, I made the decision. But me being able to live with that, me owning up to it has made it f-cking easy.”

Wait is this actually true? I didn’t realise they did that to UFC fighters that tested positive.
And he’s saying his samples actually came up clean for all his previous fights?!
…I assume USADA would come out and correct him if that wasn’t the case?

[willis007]

GTFO. His former teammates outed him. He benefitted a great deal from his cocktails.

[B3njanimb00s]

I thought I read something that epo was found in his older samples when they tested them again, is my memory fooling me? Would it even be public if they found something?
Dillashaw was always a guy that that looked suspicious to me when it comes to peds, I would be surprised if it really was for the one fight only

[Nick_Diaz_Army]

I hope TJ Dillashart gets knocked out

[ranier_wolfcastle]

i still think everyone is on peds
congrats to him for all his old samples testing negative though