[Centraal] MMA topic #285 C.R.E.A.M.

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Op donderdag 8 januari 2015 14:42 schreef Splackavellie02 het volgende:

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LOL, wat een aanfluiting. Ik zie Weidman veel liever tegen Jacare.

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Op donderdag 8 januari 2015 14:52 schreef Splackavellie02 het volgende:

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En in dit geval een rematch voor een gast die al twee keer overtuigend heeft verloren van de champ. Misschien dat ze het kunnen verkopen als Belfort de champ is, maar ik zie hem niet winnen van Weidman. Weidman is veel te slim om in een blitz van Belfort te stappen en op de grond is het geen partij. Belfort mag dan een blackbelt zijn, maar die heeft hij ook bij een pakje boter gekregen. Die had hij al op zijn negentiende, met krap een paar jaar BJJ ervaring.

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Coming off of the biggest win of his career at UFC 182, few would have expected Jon Jones to have the worst week of his life. But that’s exactly what happened, as the best pound-for-pound fighter in the sport failed a drug test for a trace element of cocaine and is now on his way to rehab. What’s worse, numerous MMA journalists have come out to say that this is more than just a social habit, and that Jon actually uses lots of cocaine and does so frequently. Why they didn’t bother to investigate this earlier could be attributed to a desire to work directly for Dana, but that’s neither here or there.

Cocaine is debatably a performance-enhancing drug, and Jon should be punished for using it. But the bigger issue that doesn’t seem to be gaining a lot of traction online is the fact that Jon was probably taking artificial testosterone, and that is definitely a performance-enhancing drug. Athletic commissions usually find this out by administering tests to determine an athlete’s Testosterone:Epitestosterone levels. Commonly referred to as a T:E ratio, most healthy adult males have a ratio of 1:1.

When speaking of high-level athletes, there’s an understanding that testosterone levels should be a little higher than normal. Abnormally high levels however are a sign that someone has been undergoing some form of testosterone enhancement. If their levels are absurdly low, odds are close to certain that they’ve been cycling off of some kind of testosterone regimen and their testosterone levels are suppressed as the body re-adjusts to drug-free maintenance.

Jon’s T:E ratios were tested at 0.35, 0.29 and even as low as 0.19. All three suggest foul play. Justin Gatlin, the famous American Olympian who was busted for testosterone in 2006, had a ratio at 0.5. This gives you a comparison of how suspect Jon’s levels are, and how one would be naive to think there’s anything happening here other than an artificial boosting of testosterone. But how can we know for sure?

Victor Conte has the answer. One of the foremost authorities on performance-enhancing drugs in sports, he was one of the few people to seriously question these test results and demand a carbon isotope ratio test. CIR tests analyze the atomic make-up of testosterone in a participant’s urine to determine whether it is human-generated or artificial. This will let us know for sure whether Jon is a user of artificial testosterone. Basically, whether he’s a cheater.

Jon Jones is a transcendent athlete and maybe the best fighter of all time. But we have a sport of rules and regulations, and one of the most important of those is that a fighter shouldn’t use performance-enhancing drugs while training for a fight. In a sport where broken bones and concussed brains are the norm, allowing one fighter to have a scientifically-gifted advantage is tantamount to assault with a deadly weapon.

That’s why we must do a CIR test on Jon Jones’s UFC 182 urine samples. If you care about the integrity of the sport, if you don’t want it to be looked at as a joke, then you should demand that the NSAC do a CIR test. As great as that fight was, as great as Jon looked, if he was on performance-enhancing drugs then a lot of what we saw doesn’t matter. And until we know for sure, none of it matters.

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Op donderdag 8 januari 2015 18:46 schreef Tazmaniac het volgende:

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Domste rematch tot nu toe

Weidman vs. Silva 3

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Op donderdag 8 januari 2015 19:29 schreef Hooidraad het volgende:
Wil Andy zelf wel een derde partij tegen Weidman? Vóór de rematch zag hij er al wat angstig uit en tijdens de partij kreeg hij veel meer klappen dan tijdens de eerste. En dan breekt hij zijn been ook nog. Ik denk dat hij mentaal al verloren heeft voordat hij voor de derde keer de kooi in stapt met Weidman.

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Op donderdag 8 januari 2015 19:52 schreef Tazmaniac het volgende:
Dana

MMAVines: Hypocrite

Meja - All about the money (lyrics)

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Chidi Njokuani methodically dissected Gilbert Smith in the Resurrection Fighting Alliance 22 headliner, but it was something of a bittersweet triumph for 26-year-old Las Vegas resident.

While “Chidi Bang Bang” captured a unanimous verdict (49-46, 49-46, 49-46) over Smith at the Broadmoor World Arena in Colorado Springs, Colo., on Friday night, he will not be taking the promotion’s welterweight strap home with him. Njokuani missed weight on Thursday, and as a result, only Smith was eligible for the vacant title.