Thing don’t seem to be getting any better for UFC middleweight fighter Chael Sonnen who was recently busted by CSAC for taking performance enhancing drugs. Now word has come out via SI.com that Sonnen actually let California State Athletic Commission (CSAC) executive director George Dodd know of the use prior to his matchup with UFC middleweight champion Anderson Silva. Here’s the blurb:
Sonnen, 33, of West Linn, Ore., was apparently concerned enough about the possibility that he would render a positive test that he told CSAC executive director George Dodd he used an illegal performance enhancing drug leading up to the biggest fight of his life.
“He only indicated that he was taking it but he never indicated why,” Dodd said of a conversation he and Sonnen shared during drug testing conducted by the state a day prior to the fight.
Sonnen “just let me know he was taking [something] and that’s when I called over an inspector to get it documented. But when you do take it you still have to show a medical reason.”
Sonnen has been a constant mouth piece before and since his fight with Silva, but now he’s strangely silent and still hasn’t given his side of the story. Could it all be a misunderstanding or a medical use of testosterone. Sounds unlikely.