"I don't have an option. I either take this medicine or die. I'm not asking if I can take it. It's up to them to let me take it. It's a substance that's often abused, and I deal with taking it in shame. But a blood test can clear you, and show I take the appropriate amount. I'm paying for the tests. I've taken four so far. And they'll do a day-before and morning-after test as well."
If the NSAC is taking a serious look at Cyborg because of her "weight cutting will kill me" statements, what about these fighters who will croak if they don't stay on TRT?
I assume this statement was made by a man with a Hispanic accent.
I don't understand how TRT works, whether you can just take lower levels of testosterone and still fall below the threshold, or whether any supplementation is illegal. I would rather see Chael retire and become a full time commentator than watch him die though.
Brigham - Is what he is saying true? Are there still ways of 'legally' taking it?
Nope. Decision made yesterday was that if you can't fight without it, you shouldn't be fighting at all. All commissions haven't adopted the banning yet, so that might be a loophole.
The simple question of whether Justino would be licensed to fight at 135 pounds remains an interesting one. In 2012, she and her manager at the time, former UFC champion Tito Ortiz, said cutting to that weight puts her health at risk.
"That's extremely relevant, it's an admission by the fighter," said Francisco Aguilar, chairman of the Nevada State Athletic Commission. "If she made that comment, she had reasons for making it.
"If the UFC wanted that fight in Las Vegas, the commission would review her application and decide whether or not to approve that bout at 135 pounds. This is one of those situations we'd really have to look at."
Sonnen just needs to travel to the Philippines where the TRT is manufactured. If he can get into one of the LABs there and infect himself with a live TRT virus. Once he does that he'll retain all the benefits of a person on TRT without having to take it anymore.
I knew a guy in college who was bit by a TRT crazed monkey in the basement of an abandoned research facility. Didn't affect his testosterone levels as far as we could tell, but he became deathly afraid of his roomate's classic Donkey Kong machine.
