With those results, I don't care.
OK well that's fine I suppose.
But please consider this scenario :
If PED's are freely allowed.
- Fighter A takes 500mgs of PED Substance per week and gets suddenly improved results.
- Fighter B then notices and takes 1000mgs per week of PED substance per week and WAHAYY!! achieves some great KO's, he can train much harder, shorter recovery time, less injuries etc.
- Fighters C, D, E, F think "fukc, we have to be on that shit as well to compete". And they take 3000mgs of PED substance per week and after a few months re-emerge as monsters (with no cardio) and start smashing people.
- Then the entire roster descends into the Ultimate Trenbolone Championship and 500 fighters are faced with the decision to either take illicit substances (that are potentially extrremely harmful in the long-term) in large amounts OR lose and get cut from the UFC.
- 20 years later, Fighter A, B, C, D, and E all die prematurely from heart attacks and enlarged organs and other issues associated with taking huge amounts of Testosterone / Dianabol / Trenbolone / Stanozolol / Anavar etc. Pills / injections / whatever.
It becomes a "Risk Dying Prematurely Or Fight Clean and Probably Lose" Championship.
Go google Dallas McCarver and Rich Piana to take just 2. OK they were bodybuilders and went extreme but the same applies to fighters if they're going to take large amounts of illicit substances in an atempt to Get Rich, Get Famous, Get Championships.
It no longer is only about SKILL and TRAINING and TALENT, (ok it will always be about that to a good degree, clearly) but it increasingly becomes about "
Do I take 2000mgs of Trenbolone Acetate for the next 6months because I KNOW my opponent it doing exactly that and if I don't then I'l proabably get smasheed in Round 1".
Just my view. And YES I know Trenbolone destroys cardio, I just used that as an example. Substitute whatever other anabolic steroids are more appropriate for achieving max results for MMA.
ps. Dallas McCarver didn't essentially die of choking, that was just the official reason, he was juiced off his tits for all his adult life and his autopsy showed MASSIVE organ problems etc. DEath was certain by any event by mid-30s for sure.
His Testosterone levels at autopsy were 55,000 ng/dl. That's not a typo. Normal levels are 300 to 1100 ng/dl.