Strikeforce's Muhammed 'King Mo' Lawal Says Over The Counter Supplement Caused Steroid Test Failure

It clearly labels itself as an anabolic…

4-Chloro-17a-Methyl-a-andro4-ene3, 17b-diol 25mg*
2a-17a-Dimethyl-5aandrost-3-one

S-Mass is only recommended for the experienced designer anabolic consumer. Before using a suppressive powerful anabolic please conduct all the necessary research that comes with using a designer anabolic of this nature.

* These statements have not been evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration. * This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. * Consult your Physician before using.

This can’t be good for his AC hearing.

“Anabolic” in the product description? Seems legit.

After his failed drug test, he did exactly what everyone wanted him to do: list the products he was taking. Obviously it’s plain stupid to not know what you’re taking, especially when it labels itself as an anabolic, but he handled the aftermath perfectly. His punishment should be lessened for being so willing to cooperate with the NSAC and get to the root of the problem.

With other that use this excuse they dont seem to have the ability to be specific which makes it seem like pure BS. Now I guess the real issue is does this stuff provide the result that was shown in his test.

I don’t believe any of it.

I mean, it is right there in the product. The most he can claim is that he was acting just severely, severely, severely incompetent.

Still his fault though.

In the name doesn’t mean anything. A lot of supplements have “anabolic” in their name while claiming this legal supplement has almoust as great results as anabolic steroids. I’m completely on Mo’s side, he can’t be that lucky and find legal/past legal products that causes the results he got.

…what over the counter stuff had this banned substance in it and then, “OH this is what i was taking… It’s been off the shelf for a while, but this was it.”

The guilty party, according to Kogan and Lawal, is a supplement called S-Mass Lean Gainer by Rock Solid, which Lawal said he bought at a Max Muscle store in California and used only sporadically for “rehab stuff,” the fighter explained.

Wrong. The guilty party is Muhammed Lawal.

Step 1: Look on the Interwebz for an over-the-counter supplement known to return positive steroid results

Step 2: Claim to have taken that product

Step 3: ….

Step 4: Profit!

Did you see to actually come out and show the world the supplement? I don’t see too many, give the man a break

But I mean it’s rectifiable to a certain extent. People were saying he should name the supplement: he did. What more do you want?

Now he should go out on his own and get tested independently on a regular basis so he can show the world he is clean. It might cost him a few grand for a year, but if he went out to a lab and got tested every 2-3 weeks for a year, wouldn’t that lend him some credibility going forward?

…but I also couldn’t care less if grown men and women want to use steroids. Pretty much a wash for me.

1. Get caught roiding
2. Deny allegation. Act stunned that “anything” could possibly cause it
3. Have managers and trainers act even more stunned and confused about possible causes as they have never apparanty even heard of the various possible causes
4. Don’t ask for B sample to be tested, despite there being zero downside and a possible upside
5. Float possibility of a cortisone knee injection somehow being the cause.
6. Withdraw knee theory after realizing that the connection is laughable
7. Continue to try and gain sympathy from regulators by not claiming innocence but promising to continue to do research and clear your name that way
8. Although it’s the first thing everybody else would normally think to check, take many more days of “research” into the mystery, before suddenly publicly realizing that OH YEAH,…supplements!
9. Go back in time 7 months to purchase said supplement for future use because it’s important to plan ahead and you never know what might get banned later (Use cash and the advice of an unnamed employee to complete the transaction to keep everything above board)
10. Get online community distracted about minutia such as labelling, while the logic of your story and actions prove decisively that you didn’t just eff up a roiding cycle( because MMA fans know that actual roiding is an incredibly rare occurence in sports and nobody has figured out ways around it)
11. Make entire thing look like an admission and denial at the same time so that apologists and detractors can both feel vindicated

Food, medicine, steroids, whatever. It’s their responsibility. Period.

I’m so sick of the denials. It’s so pathetic.

To the best of my research, this product was taken off the shelves some time in mid-2011, for exactly the same reason that we’re facing right now. So we stockpiled the fuck out of it, thank god for coupons.

the athletic commission will never admit they’re wrong. about anything.
most of their officials don’t even know what an armbar or a heel hook is, except for the part of the body being leveraged.

as for false positives, i’m sure it happens. it’s like when sherk tried to fight his case, and showed how a slew of OTC supplements can come back with a positive on a drug screen for PED’s.

One of the most knowledgeble man in MMA got out gameplanned by a bag of powder.
You’d think that after all those “OTC” positive steroid tests some people would learn.
That or he’s a lier and a cheater.