Lance Armstrong is no fan of Jeff Novitzky. Armstrong was investigated by Novitzky during his cycling days, before he soon admitted to utilizing performance-enhancing drugs. Now, Novitzky has been in headlines recently for his backing of Jon Jones, who recently delivered an abnormality in his pre-UFC 232 drug test. Novitzky was on Joe Rogan’s podcast […]
Armstrong was investigated by Novitzky during his cycling days, before he soon admitted to utilizing performance-enhancing drugs. Now, Novitzky has been in headlines recently for his backing of Jon Jones, who recently delivered an abnormality in his pre-UFC 232 drug test.
Novitzky was on Joe Rogan’s podcast recently to explain why Jones is being allowed to fight this weekend (Sat. December 29, 2018). Rogan shared a photo of them on his podcast, which Armstrong left a comment under. Here’s what Armstrong had to say:
“Aka The Star F*cker. Coupla ?’s – why the double standard for Jones and others? And let’s get right to it – what does the science and scientists say? I think I know the answer but let’s let the star f*cker speak to it.”
Now, Novitzky has offered a response to Armstrong’s comments. Speaking to ESPN’s Ariel Helwani, Novitzky called Armstrong “the biggest fraud in the history of sports”:
“Asked Novitzky about @lancearmstrong’s criticism of him this week. “Lance Armstrong is the biggest fraud in the history of sports,” he said. He pays no attention to what he says, Novitzky added.”
Asked Novitzky about @lancearmstrong’s criticism of him this week. “Lance Armstrong is the biggest fraud in the history of sports,” he said. He pays no attention to what he says, Novitzky added.
Jeff Novitzky has been working at the UFC for nearly four years and it appears he’s taken on some of that fighting spirit based on his statements on Lance Armstrong. The disgraced former Tour De France winner, who was investigated by Novitzky in a mass…
Jeff Novitzky has been working at the UFC for nearly four years and it appears he’s taken on some of that fighting spirit based on his statements on Lance Armstrong. The disgraced former Tour De France winner, who was investigated by Novitzky in a massive doping case while he was working for the Federal government, […]
Lance Armstrong isn’t buying what Jeff Novitzky is saying. Novitzky is the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) VP of Athlete Health & Performance. He has taken some heat for his comments on the UFC 232 relocation. UFC 232 was moved to Inglew…
Lance Armstrong isn’t buying what Jeff Novitzky is saying. Novitzky is the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) VP of Athlete Health & Performance. He has taken some heat for his comments on the UFC 232 relocation. UFC 232 was moved to Inglewood, California when a trace amount of turinabol was found in Jon Jones’ system. The […]
In either case, Sonnen recently appeared on his favorite venue for trolling the MMA world, The Jim Rome Show, and picked up where he left off in regards to the now disgraced cyclist, even delving into how Armstrong had threatened to sue him for his statements at one point:
Why are they calling him a bully? That’s what I can’t wrap my mind brain around. Lance is a dweeb, the only thing he’s missing is the tape on the glasses and the high water pants. That guy couldn’t get respect at the local Honky Tonk in my hometown. He threatened to sue me so I threatened to kick his ass and the whole thing went away.
In either case, Sonnen recently appeared on his favorite venue for trolling the MMA world, The Jim Rome Show, and picked up where he left off in regards to the now disgraced cyclist, even delving into how Armstrong had threatened to sue him for his statements at one point:
Why are they calling him a bully? That’s what I can’t wrap my mind brain around. Lance is a dweeb, the only thing he’s missing is the tape on the glasses and the high water pants. That guy couldn’t get respect at the local Honky Tonk in my hometown. He threatened to sue me so I threatened to kick his ass and the whole thing went away.
Look, I get it and I’m kidding but Lance did do some bad stuff and he was a jerk about it. Yeah, he hit me up with the whole ‘I’m gonna sue you’ routine and I hit him back with the whole ‘I’ll kick your ass’ routine. That’s it, that’s where it ended. I thought he was going to go through with the lawsuit but he did not.
So there you have it, Potato Nation: Oregon is apparently such a backwards, underdeveloped state that it still has local Honky Tonks at which the townspeople must throw down to earn respect. That’s what we were supposed to take away from this, right?
You can listen to Sonnen’s entire interview here, and we’d highly recommend it. Sonnen barely lets Rome get the introduction out of the way before he starts attacking Armstrong for using PED’s “to do something that my six year-old niece does up and down the driveway every day,” and it only gets more entertaining from there.
Hopefully the 17th season (!!!) premiere of The Ultimate Fighter tonight won’t absolutely suck, because Sonnen has simply put too much effort into his convoluted attempts at hyping the season up to let it go unnoticed.
You may not remember this, but all the way back in 2010, Chael Sonnen made huge headlines when he made highly controversial comments regarding the relationship between Lance Armstrong, his battle with cancer, and his at-the-time alleged performance-enh…
You may not remember this, but all the way back in 2010, ChaelSonnen made huge headlines when he made highly controversial comments regarding the relationship between Lance Armstrong, his battle with cancer, and his at-the-time alleged performance-enhancing drug use. He later refuted the comments in a strange way.
This, by the way, was all before Sonnen‘s first fight with Anderson Silva.
If you haven’t been listening to the news lately, you might have missed how Lance Armstrong came clean, and admitted to using PEDs over the course of his cycling career on Oprah.
It is likely to be the top sports news story in 2013.
Well, ChaelSonnen has been watching the news, and he is now firing a big salvo at Armstrong. Via Twitter:
Hey Bike Boy, once you are done apologizing to Oprah, pedal on over to @jimrome show and apologize to me too.
Apparently, Sonnen is taking credit for the comments, and is kicking the famed cyclist while he’s down. Armstrong has long been a lightning rod for allegations of PED-use, and recently had his Tour de France titles stripped.
All the while, he claimed he competed clean.
Sonnen, ironically, was suspended after his UFC 117 bout with Anderson Silva for a failed drug test, stemming from a high testosterone-to-epitestosterone ratio. The failure, he claims, stemmed from his TRT-use, which is necessitated by his doctor-diagnosed hypogonadism.
Sonnen has long been a provocateur. Over the years, he has picked fights with people of all walks of life. This includes fellow MMA fighters like Anderson Silva, Jon Jones, LyotoMachida and VitorBelfort, Octagon Girl Arianny Celeste, actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger, boxer Juan Manuel Marquez, President Barack Obama and more.
Sonnen is scheduled to coach opposite UFC Light Heavyweight Champion Jon Jones in The Ultimate Fighter, with the two scheduled to fight on April 27.
Make sure to keep an eye on Sonnen. He’s always entertaining.
Almost exactly a year ago, MMA fans will probably recall a radio interview with Larry Pepe of MMA Radio where a caller accused Lance Armstrong of giving himself cancer due to steroid use. When Sonnen appeared on ESPN correspondent Jim Rome’…
Almost exactly a year ago, MMA fans will probably recall a radio interview with Larry Pepe of MMA Radio where a caller accused Lance Armstrong of giving himself cancer due to steroid use.
For those who can’t exactly recall the comments in question, the quote reads as follows:
“Lance Armstrong did a number of things, and he gave himself cancer. He cheated, he did drugs, and he gave himself cancer. Well, instead of saying ‘Hey listen, I cheated and gave myself cancer.
“’Don’t be like me’ he actually made himself the victim and then went out and profited something like $15 million from this, ‘Hey, poor me, let’s find a cure for cancer’ campaign instead of just coming clean and saying, ‘Look, here’s what I did, I screwed myself up, and I hope people learn from my mistakes.’ ”
Not like it was ever any sort of secret or mystery, but Yahoo! Sports is reporting that at the UFC 133 question and answer Sonnen hosted last week, he finally admitted who made the call about one year ago.
At the UFC 133 weigh-ins, Sonnen happily answered a fan’s question about the 2010 incident.
“Of course it was me,” Sonnen exclaimed.
“Come on, ‘Was it me?’ I’m a genius. That was the single greatest thing I’ve ever done. I’m so proud of that moment, and I’m disappointed that I’ve outed it, because there are actually people out there who don’t think that was me.”
Sonnen gave some context to the situation, as Yahoo explains:
“Sonnen said he had been preparing to fight Silva in a building named after Armstrong on the Nike campus. He said he’d just watched Floyd Landis make comments ripping Armstrong on television the night before he made his comments.”
The always controversial UFC middleweight admitted that Rome’s questioning had caught him off guard and that it actually caused quite an issue with Nike.
“The guys at Nike really think it’s not me,” Sonnen said.
“So, they’ve got this high-tech sound equipment at Nike in something they call ‘The Hive,’ where they make their commercials that are aired throughout the whole world.
“It’s like super high-tech and they’re playing the tape of when I said Lance Armstrong, but I denied that I said it versus when I say something else that has the ‘ah’ of Armstrong.”
“There was a different sound in the ‘a.’ So these major players at Nike start to get involved, and they want to crack this forensic code and clear my name.”
Sonnen, perhaps feeling bad for the trouble he caused, sent a Nike representative a text message saying that he would take the blame in this situation.
“I said, ‘Hey guys, you might want to back off on this,’ because I got roughed up on this one and I’m going to have to take the bump,” Sonnen recalled.
Before he concluded, Sonnen also wanted to take a few moments to talk about his UFC 136 opponent, Brian “The All-American” Stann.
Since the fight was made official, Sonnen has maintained that he likes Stann as a person and respects him as a fighter, and therefore would not engage in any trash talking.
He kept that trend steady here, although his comments were in a rather lighthearted tone.
“Brian Stann is a great guy. I wrote him in and voted for him for the President of the United States in 2008,” Sonnen stated.
“I will write him in again in 2012 and when he becomes the legal age of 35 by 2016, per our constitution, I would hope that you all vote for Brian Stann. He is an outstanding human being.”
Well, at least no one will accuse Sonnen for not having a healthy amount of respect for the former Silver Star recipient and Marine Captain.
As has been the norm recently for Sonnen, he couldn’t resist a pro wrestling reference before he called it a day.
“Look, this isn’t 1984. This isn’t Iron Sheik vs. Sergeant Slaughter. I’m not going to walk to the ring in curled-up boots looking for a camel clutch,” Sonnen assured.
“I’m not the bad guy here. He’s an American. I’m an American, too. He loves the USA. I love the USA, but on Oct. 8 in Houston, Texas, there’s going to be a red, white and blue ***-whipping.”
Sonnen and Stann meet in the co-main event at UFC 136. The event is hosted at the George R. Brown Convention Center in Houston, Texas, on October 8.
Almost exactly a year ago,