It appears as though the UFC’s middleweight division is in an uproar following Yoel Romero’s recent United States Anti-Doping Agency (USADA) violation.
Romero was flagged by USADA following his UFC 194 split decision win over Ronaldo ‘Jacare’ Souza, and handed a six month suspension after the Cuban’s tainted supplement defense.
Current 185-pound champ Michael Bisping, however, isn’t buying Romero’s tainted supplement defense (courtesy of MMA Fighting), who says those who are caught with PEDs in their system should be suspended ‘forever’:
“Once you have PEDs in your system, any time you put the PEDs in your system, I think you should be suspended forever,” Bisping said. “And now you have this whole thing where, tainted supplements, I’m not sold on it.
“I feel like every time someone failed a drug test the first thing they go to was ‘oh, I was taking this and it was tainted,’ I mean, it doesn’t take too much time to be like, I failed for testosterone or whatever it is, let me find a supplement inside GNC that people might feel is not a big deal to take and they might be a little more lenient on me.”
Romero’s next opponent will be former UFC middleweight champ Chris Weidman, as the two talented 185-pounders will meet on the main card of UFC 205 from Madison Square Garden. Weidman stated that he finds this contest a bit personal as he gets ‘pissed off’ when people take steroids in the sport to get an upper hand on the competition:
“It’s personal because the guy, he’s a gifted athlete, he just failed for steroids, and this is the biggest fight of my life,” Weidman said. “I don’t like when people take steroids and cheat, especially when they walk into a cage, it pisses me off. And then when you have all these excuses and people start feeling bad for you, it pisses me off.
“Either way I still go crazy, these guys are taking steroids, I was in this sport pre-USADA and I was used to the idea all these guys were taking steroids and now they’re getting caught for it. At the end of the day I was fighting guys on steroids even before this and now they’re getting caught for it.”
Weidman and Romero will meet on the main card of UFC 205 live on pay-per-view (PPV), from the Madison Square Garden arena in New York City on November 12, 2016.
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