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Former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion Muhammed ‘King Mo’ Lawal was asked to comment on the recent ruling by the Nevada State Athletic Commission to restrict UFC heavyweight Alistair Overeem from re-applying for a fighter license for nine months after the Dutch fighter tested positive (14:1 T/E to be exact) for high levels of testosterone.
Lawal feels that the Commission was more lenient with Overeem than they were with him. Overeem’s lawyer based their case on the heavyweight not knowing what was in an injection he received from a physician for rib pain.
‘King Mo’ went before the same Commission for a positive test after a bout last January, with evidence indicating that a supplement he was taking, which was improperly labelled, was the cause of his high testosterone levels.
The result for both fighters was basically the same, Overeem can’t re-apply for a license for nine months and Lawal had his license suspended for the same amount of time.
“I haven’t been paying attention to the Overeem thing to be honest, because I knew Overeem would get different treatment, so why watch it — so I can get mad? I think it’s pre-determined,” Lawal responded when asked by Mauro Ranallo on The MMA Show today about his opinion of the whole situation. “I had information showing what the supplement was, how the company put it in — I had the bottle to show them that the company didn’t put the actual name drostanolone on the bottle, they put a compound i. (The commission) didn’t care to see it, they said, ‘We’ll see it next time.’”
Also featured on the Podcast was UFC middleweight Mark Munoz, former Strikeforce champ Frank Shamrock, and journalist Dave Meltzer.