Steroid problem not foreign to MMA
Gregg Doyel recently wrote a great column on sportsline.com about steroids in the sport of mixed martial arts.
UFC recently suspended its lightweight champion, Sean Sherk, for testing positive for steroids after his successful title defense over Hermes Franca on July 7. Here’s the kicker: Franca tested positive, too!
I don’t understand why fighters are sometimes busted for steroid use. They are always fighting someone who is their own weight. They are tested for drug use very often. It doesn’t make sense.
Doyle makes the point that steroid use will keep mixed martial arts from breaking through as a mainstream sport. He said sports like baseball and football can survive steroid scandals because of their rich histories.
Actually, he has it backwards. MMA is so new on the national scene that the mainstream media isn’t looking at it that closely. Performance-enhancing drugs have made such big headlines in baseball, football, track and pro wrestling that nobody is paying that much attention to the issue in MMA.
Decide for yourself – check out Doyel’s column at http://www.sportsline.com/columns/story/10265381
November 12th, 2008 at 6:09 pm
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July 13th, 2010 at 12:39 pm
well done.