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According to our friends at CagePotato, UFC Middleweight Chael Sonnen’s appeal is set for today at either 12:30pm EST or 4:00pm EST and they will be live-streaming the appeal approximately 15 minutes prior to it happening so start checking in with them at 12:15pm EST. Confused? Just go: here. Sonnen will be appealing […]
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According to our friends at CagePotato, UFC Middleweight Chael Sonnen’s appeal is set for today at either 12:30pm EST or 4:00pm EST and they will be live-streaming the appeal approximately 15 minutes prior to it happening so start checking in with them at 12:15pm EST. Confused? Just go: here. Sonnen will be appealing his suspension due to positive PED testing after his UFC 117 title shot against Middleweight Champion Anderson Silva.
Filed under: UFC, NewsIn the months leading up to his UFC 117 title challenge, Chael Sonnen had plenty to say. Sonnen seemed to be everywhere, talking up his potential to dethrone champion Anderson Silva in a middleweight championship match. More than …
In the months leading up to his UFC 117 title challenge, Chael Sonnen had plenty to say. Sonnen seemed to be everywhere, talking up his potential to dethrone champion Anderson Silva in a middleweight championship match. More than 20 minutes into the fight, he was making good on his pre-fight boasting, seemingly on his way to a career-defining victory when Silva caught him with a fifth-round triangle/arm bar submission.
In the months since, Sonnen has had almost nothing to say publicly, his silence precipitated by a positive drug test in the days after the fight.
On Thursday in Sacramento, Calif., Sonnen will have his chance to defend himself from a California state athletic commission (CSAC) finding that he illegally used performance-enhancing steroids prior to the bout.
Over 100 pages of documents recently released by the CSAC give a clearer picture of the commission’s contention that Sonnen cheated.
(Ramon says his head isn’t big; every hat he owns is simply too small.)
Brazilians always seem to take the glass is half full approach to life, so it shouldn’t surprise us that Anderson Silva’s Brazilian jiu-jitsu coach, Ramon Lemos sees a bright side …
(Ramon says his head isn’t big; every hat he owns is simply too small.)
Brazilians always seem to take the glass is half full approach to life, so it shouldn’t surprise us that Anderson Silva’s Brazilian jiu-jitsu coach, Ramon Lemos sees a bright side to Chael Sonnen’s positive post-UFC 117 steroid test result.
Lemos told Tatame recently that Sonnen’s infraction only proves how good his fighter really is.
"I was very happy because he was on top of us for 23 minutes, on his best position, and Anderson submitted him, won the fight and kept the belt… Then you see that the guy had used things, so he had better conditioning than a regular athlete… It’s wonderful for us," Lemos said. "That proves that Anderson Silva is the best of t he world, without any doubts."
Considering that Sonnen, whether or not he had any help from PEDs, is the only fighter to ever dominate Silva the way that the Oregon Republican did in August, it’s no surprise that Ramos is in agreement that the one year suspension Chael was handed down by the California State Athletic Commission last month was just. He also is of the opinion that when Sonnen does come back from his suspension that he should be forced to work his way back up from the bottom of the UFC’s middleweight division.
Since Silva only has a handful of fights remaining on his current UFC contract and has expressed a desire to retire in the next year or two, unless Sonnen wins his appeal, it’s unlikely the pair will ever get a second match.
"I’m in favor of rematches for the fans, the show, the event, the whole media… But, as a professional and athlete, and now as Anderson Silva’s coach on Atos, I consider a rematch a bad thing and it doesn’t worth. Because, if the guy had loss on the judges’ call, it’d be ok. But he stayed for 23 minutes, and that means five rounds, on his best position, which is to takedown and punch from the top, and he couldn’t define the fight, and he lost," Lemos said. "There’s no need to know if he had taken extra medicines or not. You can’t have a rematch on those conditions. He has to be punished and stay a year off and then come back for the end of the line and wait for his call to fight Anderson Silva again."
Filed under: UFCShould Chael Sonnen file an appeal with the California State Athletic Commission as his manager Mike Roberts indicated he would, he’ll have his chance to explain why his post-fight drug test at UFC 117 showed elevated levels of testoste…
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Should Chael Sonnen file an appeal with the California State Athletic Commission as his manager Mike Roberts indicated he would, he’ll have his chance to explain why his post-fight drug test at UFC 117 showed elevated levels of testosterone. But that explanation may or may not be enough to placate the commission after the fact, said CSAC executive officer George Dodd.
Dodd told MMA Fighting on Tuesday that fighters are instructed to provide documentation explaining what substances they’re taking and why before the fight, but couldn’t say what might happen to Sonnen if he provides that documentation at a forthcoming appeal hearing.
“I can’t speak for the commission as far as what they would do if someone came in afterwards,” Dodd said. “I will say that usually when a fighter calls me up and says, ‘Hey, I’m going to be fighting in California and this is what I’m taking,’ I inform them right off the bat to get all the necessary documentation from the doctor and why you’re taking it and they provide that to us. We send that to one of our doctors and they verify that that is a reason why and that is a proper treatment for that type of problem, and we usually don’t have any problems after that.”
Filed under: UFC, NewsChael Sonnen tested positive for abnormally high levels of testosterone in his UFC 117 drug screening, California state athletic commission executive director George Dodd told media outlets on Monday afternoon, finally naming the …
Chael Sonnen tested positive for abnormally high levels of testosterone in his UFC 117 drug screening, California state athletic commission executive director George Dodd told media outlets on Monday afternoon, finally naming the substance that could subject Sonnen to a one-year suspension as well as a fine.
According to Dodd, who spoke to SI.com, Sonnen admitted to him during testing that he had used an illegal performance enhancer prior to the middleweight championship bout against Anderson Silva. Dodd did not name the specific drug Sonnen allegedly admitted to using, and Sonnen did not indicate any usage on a mandatory pre-fight questionnaire.
Filed under: UFCMost fighters who test positive for a performance-enhancing substance have two options: 1) they can deny it all the way to the grave, hoping that a fervent and lengthy appeal will bolster the case for their innocence, or 2) they can own…
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Most fighters who test positive for a performance-enhancing substance have two options: 1) they can deny it all the way to the grave, hoping that a fervent and lengthy appeal will bolster the case for their innocence, or 2) they can own up to it, do the mea culpa dance, and spend the next year laying low.
Chael Sonnen isn’t most fighters. He likes to keep us guessing. When an apology or at least an explanation seems like the most rational course of action – remember when he claimed that Lance Armstrong gave himself cancer? – he instead opts for the completely implausible denial. When you think he’s going to be as virulently obstinate as ever, such as after his loss to Anderson Silva at UFC 117, he throws you a curveball and acts like a dignified gentleman, declaring that the better man always wins.
So now that he’s been branded a cheater by the California State Athletic Commission and the MMA world awaits his reaction, what path will he choose? Will he blame supplements or over-the-counter medication? Will he explain that he needed help pushing through an injury? Will he say he did it and he’s not at all sorry? Will he blame some guy with a Hispanic accent?
We have yet to find out, but it’s worth noting that in times like these it sure would be nice to have a reputation for something other than being the guy who’s willing to say absolutely anything.