Comments on: Who will be MMA’s A-Rod?

By: MARIO MAYANS

MARIO MAYANS — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:07:41 +0000

IT WOULD BE INTERESTING THAT ALL THE MMA FIGHTERS BE TESTED FOR ILEGAL SUBSTANCES USED, LETS HOPE EVERYONE GETS OUT CLEAN, FOR THE FUTURE OF THE SPORT, IM A BIG FAN MMA, AND LETS HOPE THESE SPORT DOES NOT GET A BLACK IMAGE LIKE OTHER SPORTS

By: Vee

Vee — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:52:28 +0000

David Ortiz has said that he does not care what people think, it takes a tremendous amount of skill to hit the ball the way Barry Bonds does.

In boxing who knows, what I do know is that a banned steroid stanozolol was found in Fernando Vargas after his losing effort against Oscar De La Hoya. Oscar put a serious hurting on Vargas.

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Another note about drugs. Some pain killers enable you to compete while experiencing less pain, so in essence they enhance your performance. The evidence in inconclusive but some of those drugs may damage your internal organs. NBA player Alzono Mourning discovered this the hard way.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:55:18 +0000

The biggest advantage I see is the ability to recover and increase training. If a fighter can train more frequent and at a highler level, they SHOULD perform better.

Roids don’t make you hit a baseball, just gives you the tools to hit it a bit farther…

By: Dane

Dane — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:24:42 +0000

What surprises me about steroid use is that guys in sports that require technical skills take it thinking that it will improve their game. It might to a degree in terms of strength and the ability to recover from training hard, but I don’t think the benefits are that spectacular, especially in MMA where fighting is more than just strength and big muscles. For a bodybuilder it works since they are not functional athletes and simply need big muscles. But MMA fighters take a big risk getting suspended from something that in my view is only minimally beneficial and having the added psychological benefit since they see this as a super drug. I could be wrong but I think it is impossible to really know how something like this benefits a fighter since there are so many factors to MMA, and steroids and other enhancers can only add so much. Then again, athletes will do anything for an advantage whether real or perceived.

By: Curtis

Curtis — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:48:32 +0000

Vee,
I agree 100%. In the world we live in alcoholism and drug addiction is almost glorified by actors and rock stars.

I hope the top tier guys in MMA are not using but it would not surprise me one bit now.

By: VEe!

VEe! — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 09:39:44 +0000

Whoa, whoa . . . wait a second. This is just my opinion.

For the most part, America is using and abusing Advil, painkillers, stress relief drugs, our last President used cocaine, current President smokes cigarettes, there’s Viagra, we drink alcohol and we still get behind the wheel of a motorized vehicle, we’re happy on E, crack kills, creating out own Meth labs, OxyContin, Vicodin, drugs to subdue ADHD, not to mention that many celebrated entertainers publicly admit to abusing drugs and alcohol and some succomb to death from overdose . . . and so on.

Sports Illustrated* has the gall to say A-Rod is smarter than Barry Bonds for coming clean. WOW. Whatever. I understand that A-Rod publicly apologized but if he had a chance, would he do it all over again. I say yes, just like many professional athletes and high school and collegiate athletes.

“Colleges want the biggest, fastest, and strongest athletes to mold into NCAA contenders”
You used the correct word, to mold into contenders. They shape and fashion the young athletes into studs. And how do they accomplish that? Is anyone surprised that WWE superstars are linked with all kinds of drugs year after year?

Let’s just say that if it is A. Silva, GSP, Fedor, or any other guy then I will not be surprised.

I wonder what Rush Limbaugh has to say about A-Rod?

*The title of the Sports Illustrated article “A-Rod proves clutch again in crisis” . . . source: http://tinyurl.com/c3chpf