Russian Blood Runs Icky: Aleksander Emelianenko, Kirill Sidelnikov
by Kid Nate on Mar 3, 2009 3:27 PM EST
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Fightlinker is wringing his hands over the lack of outrage that a presumably Hepatitis infected Aleksander Emelianenko is still fighting and no one in the MMA media is complaining:
You know the dude’s got a serious issue when even Japan says “You’re not allowed to fight.” So why is a guy who’s basically the Tommy Morrison of MMA getting a free pass from the MMA media? Is it because he’s Fedor’s little brother? Or do we just care so little about the safety of his opponents?
There’s all sorts of signs pointing towards Aleks having hepatitis. If he’s still FIGHTING, that’s a health risk to everyone he fights. You’d think there should be some responsible journalistic outlet raising some questions about the whole situation instead of licking it’s chops in eager anticipation of Aleks’ next fight. Hey, I used to be down with the A to the E too, but this is fucking nuts. The guy might have a life threatening disease and he’s fighting in MMA!
And MMA Mania is reporting that Baby Fedor Kiril Sidelnikov's bad showing at the last Affliction show was even worse than we thought at the time. Hard to believe he needed drugs to look like that. Quote from Bill Douglas of the CSAC:
Kirill Sidelnikov, who last competed at Affliction’s Day of Reckoning event on January 24, has been suspended for testing positive for Stanozolol. The suspension period is retroactive to the conclusion of the bout on January 24 and runs through January 18, 2010. He has been fined $2,500. The mere presence of Stanozolol in the system constitutes a violation under the new testing procedures for CSAC.
Photo of Kiril by Esther Lin.
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You know the dude’s got a serious issue when even Japan says "You’re not allowed to fight."
Really? When did this happen?
by Tonley on Mar 3, 2009 3:34 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
With his unresolved medical situation blocking possibly lucrative fights in Japan and the United States
http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/10-march-tussles-worth-watching-16411
by who me on Mar 3, 2009 3:53 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Shouldn't we have some solid proof first
Before we start getting all outraged over something that may or may not be true?
by ufc4 on Mar 3, 2009 3:35 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, where's the proof?
I remember him denying it when it was raised the first time, and seen nothing since that would raise additional evidence or disprove his denial.
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"And many men have eaten it." -- Goldy
by thetakeover on Mar 3, 2009 3:35 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Yep. Until a credible source comes forward and proves these allegations to be true, it seems wrong to stigmatize Aleks. Fightlinker is basically declaring the rumours to be true, and blaming outlets like Sherdog for not getting confirmation one way or the other. Only a d-bag would say “all signs point towards Aleks having hepatitis”, then not elaborate on what any of those signs are supposed to be. The FL crew should pipe down and keep working on how they’re going to charge money now for their lame jokes. If there is a story there with Aleks, I’m sure the real MMA sites would cover it.
by smoogy on Mar 3, 2009 3:43 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It was Sherdog who just said that he isn’t able to fight in the US and Japan due to unresolved medical reasons, perhaps they are the “professional” journalist" who should be following up on what those are instead of expecting drunk Canadian guys to do it. I agree that Fightlinker is reporting rumors as true instead of just as rumors but this is something that is serious and potentially very dangerous, you would think serious journalist would want to get to the bottom of this instead of just glossing over it in reports like it doesn’t matter.
by who me on Mar 3, 2009 4:52 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
This is one of those things that can’t be proven (without Aleks admitting it).
The CSAC can’t confirm, because it’s illegal to disclose that.
Where there’s smoke, there’s usually fire, and there’s a heck of a lot of smoke in this situation. (The timing of him being pulled off the card, Fedor saying something about “blood analyzes,” the comments from the CSAC after the fact, that the Hep B rumor allegedly started that night from Aleks’ opponent.)
by Phildo on Mar 4, 2009 1:09 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Makes people wonder….. If Baby Fedor is doing it…. Is the regular Fedor doing it?
Typically when there is somebody in the camp who is injecting steroids, it is a team thing….
by AlwaysRelaxing on Mar 3, 2009 3:47 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Well, they fought on the same card and Fedor didn’t test positive, so…
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by Chris Nelson on Mar 3, 2009 3:49 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
And he didn’t test + at Affliction Banned either.
by ufc4 on Mar 3, 2009 3:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Fedor also seems to take a long time to heal his injuries, and aren’t steroids supposed to speed the process up?
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by themachiavellian on Mar 3, 2009 4:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yes they are. A long time between fights could also mean letting something clear out of your system.
by AlwaysRelaxing on Mar 3, 2009 4:36 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Retarded.
I am the bastard love child of Junie Browning and Diamond Dave Kaplan.
by The_Gaijin on Mar 3, 2009 4:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
If he...
waits that long to let it clear out of his system…he would also be giving up the benefit of using to begin with
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by Brent Brookhouse on Mar 3, 2009 5:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
This is untrue. Being able to recover with steroids will give the fight physical benefits well after the roids are out of the system.
by AlwaysRelaxing on Mar 3, 2009 5:27 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Recovery...
will still to a degree…but the ability to hold mass and strength goes with the depletion of the stuff in your system. Disagree if you want…you’d just be wrong
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by Brent Brookhouse on Mar 3, 2009 5:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
afraid i disagree and i am not wrong. if you use heavily for say a year and work extremely hard and build massive gains in strenght and muslce mass then stop using them you will not shrink overnight or become weak. the gains will remain for sometime even with no excersise, let alone if you continue to train like a mad man.
by #5mmafan on Mar 3, 2009 5:31 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
well..
we’re talking different timeframes. I’m talking if you just try to take for a month or two between fights and then go off long enough to test clean and fight…that is not an appropriate timeframe. And no, you won’t become weak immediately but your body will respond negatively as far as strength. Long term steroid use will stop the body’s natural creation of testosterone, when you stop using your body does not “flip the switch” to start producing on its own again right away, it takes time. The lack of testosterone will have an effect on your strength. That is fact…
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by Brent Brookhouse on Mar 3, 2009 5:35 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
to go further...
you can’t “use” and get to the level of strength you want and just go off and continue working hard and continue that level of performance…there will be a dip and you can in theory work your way back up to that peak level again, but it isn’t like your body can just “maintain” where you’re at once you take away the stuff.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Mar 3, 2009 5:37 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
yeah its not very practical for a month or two on then a month or two off. but with say 12-18 months time frame its very practical and is the method used by professional athletes and body builders. as for muslce mass you will keep that an extremely long time, unless your body enters sometype of prolonged catabolic state. That is a fact…..(sorry just wanted to throw that in there)
by #5mmafan on Mar 3, 2009 5:40 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Sure...
muscle mass is not something that drops extremely quickly. but the performance of those muscles changes significantly
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by Brent Brookhouse on Mar 3, 2009 5:41 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I see what you're saying.
I did phrase my initial statement poorly “but the ability to hold mass and strength” should have read “the ability to continue gaining mass and hold your level of strength” and it would be a more correct statement on my part
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by Brent Brookhouse on Mar 3, 2009 5:45 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
yeah performance would suffer for sure, another interesting thing about some P.E.Ds that most people never talk about is its ability to increase one’s spatial reasoning. so increasing your odds of hitting a pitch and avoiding and delivering strikes would also be helped from usage.
by #5mmafan on Mar 3, 2009 5:47 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Didn’t Fedor specifically stop working out to be ripped, and started doing other types of exercises? He was huge in his first few fights….now, not so huge.
by soadtrails on Mar 3, 2009 6:48 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
If Fedor didn’t know about it…. I’m sure he’s not too pleased right now.
by Nick Thomas on Mar 3, 2009 3:50 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I wouldn’t be shocked at all. He just always seems to overpower men much bigger than him. Always have wondered about that.
by Bigperm on Mar 3, 2009 4:09 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I dunno. That’s kind of like accusing an entire camp if one guy is caught cheating.
by bignerd on Mar 3, 2009 4:23 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
He gets his Stanozolol from breast milk from Fedors glorious teet.
by szucconi on Mar 3, 2009 4:34 PM EST up reply actions 5 recs
Which happens to be the same place he gets his paycheck.
by ufc4 on Mar 3, 2009 5:05 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Hopefully this gives the boy some time to improve his boxing.
"I see him beating Anderson Silva. I see him picking him apart. Him at a 131 years old...(trails off)." - Tito on Belfort at Affliction:DOR
by Rundownloser on Mar 3, 2009 3:51 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
damn that stanzanol must of been watered down..
by DJ Soma on Mar 3, 2009 3:53 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, sure can’t tell from that pic that he was on roids.
by ufc4 on Mar 3, 2009 3:55 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
i think it proves that using roids doesn’t always make one look musclebound and vice-versa.
by bdw on Mar 3, 2009 4:06 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
using steroids...
has practically no benefit in terms of strength/physical appearance without also working out. The guys who look huge from roids are also doing an amazing amount of training. It isn’t just “inject, take a nap, wake up big” if anything if you take and don’t work out you’ll usually end up looking bloated and fat.
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by Brent Brookhouse on Mar 3, 2009 5:08 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
“Geez Brent, I wish you would have told me that BEFOREHAND” /Aleks Emelianenko
by ufc4 on Mar 3, 2009 5:10 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
But it should be noted that working out becomes easier and you can do it more. It improves your recovery so you can lift more often and make quicker gains. It doesn’t just add mass, it helps you add mass.
by szucconi on Mar 3, 2009 5:19 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Right...
that’s what I’m saying. It still takes hard work…but the hard work is easier. if that makes sense. It’s not just a needle in the ass to get huge
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by Brent Brookhouse on Mar 3, 2009 5:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
exactly
you still have to put the work in for them to be benificial. and by vice-versa i meant that even if a fighter looks like he takes roids, doesn’t necessarily mean he or she is. sometimes it’s just good old -fashioned hard work and genetics.
by bdw on Mar 3, 2009 5:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
The quoted portions are terrible.
I am pretty sure Tommy Morrison has tested negatively for HIV recently in a few different tests.
Also I don’t recall any tests where A. Emelianenko has tested positive.
Plus, “Is it because he’s Fedor’s little brother? Or do we just care so little about the safety of his opponents?” = Douchey sherdog comment.
by DirtyML on Mar 3, 2009 3:54 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Tommy Morrison also says that HIV can’t be passed though sex between a man and a woman and that it is caused by tiny flakes of dead skin though drug injections. If he wanted to prove he was negative he would go back to NSAC and take a official test and get re-licensed instead of taking private test and fighting in out of the way places that don’t check for it.
We don’t know if A. E. tested positive or not because CSAC keeps medical information private but we do know that they said he will never get a license to fight in the US and that should be making people wonder what is going on.
by who me on Mar 3, 2009 4:17 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
You’re really jumping to Morrison’s defense here?
by FRANKIE on Mar 3, 2009 4:17 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Morrison..
and his promoters are known to have tampered with at least one “test” to ensure it came up negative. Like..that doesn’t give me a lot of confidence that he is clean
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by Brent Brookhouse on Mar 3, 2009 5:09 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
If you were about to fight a guy who may or may not have a bloodborne pathogen then I would think you would want to get to the bottom of the rumors. CSAC said Aleksander Emelianenko would never get a US license, that’s a bit more than just a paperwork error and is something that should make people question just what is going on here, with Sherdog saying that he is also blocked in Japan then you have to wonder why no one is digging to get to the truth of what is going on. Yes the Hep is just a rumor but lets not act like there is no story here because there is something going on.
by who me on Mar 3, 2009 3:56 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
We aren’t saying that, we are just saying that if there IS a story here then bring it out, do some investigating of your own and prove to us that he does indeed have hepatitis, THEN ask us to be outraged.
by ufc4 on Mar 3, 2009 3:57 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
So fightlinker saying that “respectable journalist” should be raising a stink and trying to get to the bottom of this isn’t right because guys who write MMA satire haven’t done the professional journalist job for them? The fact of the matter is that there is a story here and the same “professional journalist” that are taking about the guys fights (and reporting that he can’t get cleared in Japan) aren’t taking the next step in figuring out why. We should be outraged that the guy is still fighting when this is even a question, if he is clean then it’s easily proved but if he isn’t then it’s a huge risk for anyone who ever gets in the ring/cage with him.
Would you get in a car that may have a lit stick of dynamite taped to the dash just because that could be something else or would you make sure of what it was before you got in? The issue isn’t whether he does or doesn’t have it it’s that no one seems to care to find out the truth.
by who me on Mar 3, 2009 4:23 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Calling someone who may or may not have Hepatitis “the Tommy Morrison of MMA” = I will never take another thing you say seriously.
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by Chris Nelson on Mar 3, 2009 3:57 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
i dont think you are supposed to take fightlinker seriously
by nk on Mar 3, 2009 5:44 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
The CSAC never specifically said it was a medical issue, did they?
Isn’t it just as likely that Alek’s felony conviction is what is prompted the CSAC’s Bill Douglass to say he would never be allowed to fight in California? If he detailed the exact reason, he could be breaking privacy/HIPPA laws if it is indeed a medical issue.
Maybe they did say it was a medical issue that prevented the licensing and I missed it. But there’s a good shot that Alek’s cannot obtain a work visa due to that felony armed robbery conviction.
by Gygax on Mar 3, 2009 4:02 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Well I believe it was actually a medical license to fight that he was denied so I guess technically, yes, it had to have been a medical issue. Not necessarily hep b mind you, but some sort of medical issue. He said he was just late getting them in but I don’t know why that would cause the CSAC to say that he will “never” be cleared to fight anywhere in the US.
by ufc4 on Mar 3, 2009 4:13 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
The CSAC has said they can’t comment on the exact reason because of medical privacy laws, so I’d assume it isn’t Aleks criminal record (which itself is semi-fictitious IMO). And he clearly obtained a work visa considering that it was right around the time of the weigh-ins when the fight was called off.
by ilostmydog on Mar 3, 2009 4:15 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
If it was a visa problem due to his criminal record then he wouldn’t of been allowed into the country for the weigh ins to start with. That would be a State Department issue not a CSAC issue. The Sherdog article that got Fightlinker riled up to start with says it’s a “unresolved medical situation”.
http://www.sherdog.com/news/articles/10-march-tussles-worth-watching-16411
by who me on Mar 3, 2009 4:55 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
If it was the felony thing, he would have been pulled from the card way before he was about to step on the scale for the weigh ins.
The timing of how things played out the night of the weigh ins leads me to believe it’s a bad test result from the pre-fight testing.
by Phildo on Mar 4, 2009 1:13 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
calling someone "a to the e"
= what are you doing writing publicly
by bearcox13 on Mar 3, 2009 4:06 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Also.. “January 18, 2010.” Isn’t that a big of an extreme suspension? Affliction won’t even exist when he is eligible to fight again.
by DirtyML on Mar 3, 2009 4:10 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
One year for steroids is pretty standard among the ACs.
by ilostmydog on Mar 3, 2009 4:11 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, doesn’t everyone get 1 year? I believe Bigfoot got a year, and Sherk did as well but got it cut in half I think.
by ufc4 on Mar 3, 2009 4:14 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Alves got 8 months for his,
Tim Sylvia got 6 months.
Chris leben got 9 months.
Seems like they are coming down harsh on this guy, maybe it is because he is not in the UFC. (/troll :P)
by DirtyML on Mar 3, 2009 4:15 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I guess Cali is a standard one year, those were all elsewhere.
by ufc4 on Mar 3, 2009 4:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Alves tested positive for a diuretic, not a steroid.
CSAC standard is one year suspension. NSAC is 9 months.
Sean Sherk, Hermes Franca, Phil Baroni, Antonio Silva, Royce Gracie, and Bill Mahood were all given one-year suspensions by the CSAC for juicing.
by ilostmydog on Mar 3, 2009 4:21 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Ya true that, CSAC seems to throw the book down on people for infringements.
Which I like, if it wasnt for their glaring incompetence in some situations I’d wish the NSAC was more like them.
by DirtyML on Mar 3, 2009 4:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
They throw the book at people unless they are ‘high-profile athletes’ who ‘probably wouldn’t lie.’ Cursing at them repeatedly also helps. /James Toney
by ilostmydog on Mar 3, 2009 4:27 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I guess since Leben tested pos. overseas it was up to the UFC’s discretion so they gave him 9 months instead of a full year.
by ufc4 on Mar 3, 2009 4:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
The UFC goes by NSAC statutes overseas because that is where their home office is.
by who me on Mar 3, 2009 4:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
It should also be noted that Marc Ratner used to run NSAC so when he’s running the overseas testing he probably goes with the same suspensions/testing he used before.
by who me on Mar 3, 2009 4:39 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Chris got his suspension from the UFC not a AC.
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by lovingmma25 on Mar 3, 2009 4:32 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
By the way
Why are all the positive steroid tests always in Cali and never in Nevada? Helluva coincidence isn’t it?
by ufc4 on Mar 3, 2009 4:15 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Hmmm? Stephan Bonnar, Vitor Belfort, Pawel Nastula, Tim Sylvia, and Josh Barnett all got busted in Nevada.
by ilostmydog on Mar 3, 2009 4:17 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
More than half of those are 5+ yrs ago.
by DirtyML on Mar 3, 2009 4:19 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Actually, 3/5 (more than half) of those happened since August 2006.
10/2006: Belfort and Nastula
8/2006: Bonnar
by ilostmydog on Mar 3, 2009 4:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Add Kit Cope to the list. He got busted in Nevada after fighting Razor Rob in the WEC.
by ilostmydog on Mar 3, 2009 4:26 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
That seems like a rather arbitrary point to draw the line, you could also say none of those have come in the past 2+ years while Aleks and Bigfoot have been in the last year.
by ufc4 on Mar 3, 2009 5:08 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
What’s the point? Because NSAC hasn’t suspended a huge star since Bigfoot doesn’t mean that they aren’t testing and catching guys(Aleks situation has nothing to do with this as he never even got to the drug testing stage). NSAC did catch James Irvin for painkillers last June so it’s not like they aren’t testing and catching guys. CSAC just test a lot more fighters than other commissions do because they are the only one’s who test every single fighter on the card instead of just doing random testing.
by who me on Mar 3, 2009 5:41 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
The point is maybe there’s something to it when guys like Sherk and Bigfoot vehemently deny usage. A guy like Sylvia tests positive and admits it, is he the only honest guy in MMA? If taking roids would endanger Bigfoot’s life, like his doctor said, why would he risk it?
by ufc4 on Mar 3, 2009 5:51 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I haven’t looked closely at BigFoot’s case so I won’t comment on any life or death situations he may have, but I wouldn’t say vehement denial is necessarily indicative of whether they used or not.
And it would be interesting to see who denied and who admitted use. So far I have seen:
- Bonnar: admitted to using it.
- Nastula: admitted using, said it was allowed in his contract, then denied.
- Belfort: denied, said it was supplements, fled to England.
- Barnett: denied, fled to Japan.
- Sylvia: admitted, said he wanted to feel good about being a fat ogre.
- Franca: admitted, said he needed to heal an injury.
- Baroni: denied, said it was supplements.
- Sherk: denied, said it was supplements.
- Toney: denied, said it was assholes and cocksuckers setting him up.
- Cope: admitted, said it was to recover from a shoulder injury.
- Pequeno Nogueira/Tony Danza: denied, said he got it from tainted goat meat at a barbeque restaurant where they slaughter the goat in front of you…best excuse ever?
- Leben: admitted guilt.
- Carina Damm: denied, but did not appeal.
- Edwin Dewees: no comment by him so far IIRC.
by ilostmydog on Mar 3, 2009 6:15 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Royce
Denied but said it wasn’t worth his time to appeal? i think that’s right.
by FRANKIE on Mar 3, 2009 8:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Correct. I wonder how I missed that one? I think he said he would lose money by appealing or something and that he’d just lay on the beach instead.
by ilostmydog on Mar 3, 2009 8:58 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Just because a guy says he didn’t do it is completly irrelevant, lots of murderers vehemently deny their crime’s too but that doesn’t mean they are innocent. Denial isn’t a sign of guilt or innocence at all and that’s why they don’t take it into account during the hearings.
As for steroids endangering Bigfoot’s life then why wouldn’t they of presented that medical evidence at his hearing instead of just rambling to the public about it? Antono Silva had a hearing with the same lawyer representing him that Sherk had and they blew it. First off if you took a suppliment that you claimed caused a false positive but don’t provide any evidence at all that you actually took it then you are just blowing smoke (of course taking a suppliment that says on the label that it may cause drug test positive results is pretty stupid for a fighter to do to start with). Second if you are going to provide your own drug test to prove you side and your lawyer is the person that’s main arguement the last time he was in front of CSAC was that drug test without proper chain’s of custody shouldn’t be trusted then you probably should be able to show a proper chain of custody for your test too. He had a lot of excuses for the test but when it came time to actually prove any of their stories they fell flat on their face. Want to blame someone for Bigfoot’s suspension, blame him because even if he didn’t do it he still utterly failed to show any actual proof of his innocence.
by who me on Mar 3, 2009 6:22 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Yeah, I should have said recently, seems like all the ones lately are in Cali.
by ufc4 on Mar 3, 2009 4:20 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
That is simple to answer, Cali test every single fighter on every card, Nevada(and most other athletic commissions) only test title fights and a handful of random fighters on the card. Of course CSAC is going to catch more guys they test a lot more guys that anyone else does, also California has more events than anyplace except Vegas does. It’s not a coincidence at all it’s that CSAC just test more fighters.
by who me on Mar 3, 2009 4:29 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Whatever Alex E has got… it isn’t good sense he is banned medically to fight in the US… oh just for FOREVER
Whatever he has is bad. whatever he has is incurable obviously. whatever he has is most likely blood born for it to be a problem for MMA. That doesn’t leave a whole lot of options….
Oh wait. this is God Fedor’s brother. well… there is no PROOF! It must be a paperwork thing to get banned for life.. you know how California hates sloppy signatures! Alex probably just had the flu or something!
or of course, maybe he caught some rare bear virus when he was hunting them by hand…………………..
by dbcb on Mar 3, 2009 4:40 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
If Kirill was on roids ...
… he should ask for his money back. Them shits ain’t working.
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by The Kittitas Kid on Mar 3, 2009 4:52 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
maybe people will finally realize you can’t just put a needle in your ass in end up at 220lbs at 5% bodyfat
in fact… it takes working out and a diet gasp
by dbcb on Mar 3, 2009 5:12 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Paul Buentello on the UG:
I tested postive for burittos.
by Nick Thomas on Mar 3, 2009 4:53 PM EST reply actions 4 recs
I just read that.
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by lovingmma25 on Mar 3, 2009 4:55 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
additionally...
I also tested positive for Hep B.
Hep BURITTO!!!!
by pumaman on Mar 3, 2009 6:17 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I like Paul Buentello.
"Negative, negative. I gotta stay lean and lightning and ready to fight." Capt. H.M. Murdock
by BadB on Mar 3, 2009 7:54 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I’d like him more if he could spell burrito.
by FRANKIE on Mar 3, 2009 8:23 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Trust me, they taste WAY better misspelled.
"Negative, negative. I gotta stay lean and lightning and ready to fight." Capt. H.M. Murdock
by BadB on Mar 3, 2009 8:46 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
And much less likely to get you suspended.
A man should never waste an opportunity to keep his mouth shut.
by iiowyn on Mar 3, 2009 10:02 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
I guess this proves that roids don’t help you from getting KTFO.
by Bigperm on Mar 3, 2009 4:56 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
This is Fightlinker’s new business model, run with unproven allegations and trash people with them. $5 a month and this is what you’ll get.
by dualdiagnosis on Mar 3, 2009 5:20 PM EST reply actions 0 recs
Are they run by the same people as MMABay?
by ufc4 on Mar 3, 2009 5:52 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Ha! Yeah, he was never bothered by this before the paywall went up and they bought all those Guard Dogs.
by asa on Mar 3, 2009 11:24 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Awesome insight into the situation we are actively discussing, please contribute more often!
by DirtyML on Mar 3, 2009 6:18 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
You made me laugh (Rec’d), but on the Fightlinker A.E. aspect of the post I really don’t care for it at all. I think many others agree in that most of the comments are on the drug testing issue. By the way the discussion on the drug issue is very good, Thanks guys! But the few posts on A.E. mostly echo this opinion of “who cares?” or “why should we care or be outraged?”.
I certainly don’t care all that much and my cares of the issue are mostly contrary to those expressed by fightlinker. Americans don’t really need to know. I’m more than satisfied with the knowledge that he will never fight in the US or probably Japan. It isn’t my right to know as I won’t be watching him fight or he won’t be competing with fighters that I do watch. They don’t need to know so even more so I don’t need to know.
If he is still fighting, I think the fact that it is known that he will never be medically cleared to fight in the US should be available to he opponents. They can stipulate that he provided them with tests from their own doctors.
My stance is well done American MMA media on the handling of this issue. Fightlinker who?
by natyong on Mar 4, 2009 2:06 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs
Buentello on the subject
You’re referring to Aleksander Emelianenko pulling out of the fight that you guys were scheduled to have last summer, when the California State Athletic Commission refused to sanction him at the last minute. Have you ever gotten a straight answer on what happened there?
Yeah, they told me. Everybody knows, but I don’t want to say it on the record. But everybody knows the reason why. The truth is out there. I don’t want to get the Commission mad at me for saying what they told me, but everybody knows.
Infer from that what you will.
by Phildo on Mar 5, 2009 1:51 AM EST reply actions 0 recs
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