Phil Davis did a lot of talking in the days leading up to his fight with Anthony Johnson earlier this year, working to secure himself a spot as the next contender to the title. However, by the end of the third round, it was “Rumble” who had backed it up inside the Octagon. Johnson scored […]
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Recently-retired UFC lightweight Mark Bocek is the latest MMA fighter to say that use of banned performance-enhancing-drugs (PEDs) is more than a problem in MMA and the UFC, but that it is simply the accepted norm. “I think it’s worse than people realize,” Bocek said.
“I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the way things are going, you kind of deserve to lose if you’re not on PEDs nowadays. I used to think of it as cheating, but you can’t call it cheating when everyone is doing it. You go in there and lose to someone on PEDs, it’s like, what did you expect? Did you think you were going to knock out some guy on PEDs in the highest MMA league in the world? People get away with cheating in the Olympics, which has much stricter testing than in the UFC, so you can imagine what people get away with in the UFC."
No one could reasonably accuse Bocek of simply having sour grapes because he couldn't hack it in the UFC. The world-class grappler had a solid UFC record, went out on a win and won three out of his last four bouts.
Over the course of his seven-year UFC career, Bocek only lost to some of the very best, and always rebounded from losses. So, because it would appear that the Canadian has no real axe to grind with the sport of MMA or the UFC and its regulators, it is particularly important to listen to what he has to say.
Not only is Bocek joining other past and current UFC fighters in saying what insiders have always known - that banned PED use is the norm in amateur and pro fight sports (just as it is for most other high-level athletics), but the Tri-Star fighter also said that he believes the UFC isn't truly interested in real, substantive drug testing. “Random testing works," he said.
"All the guys that have gotten random-tested failed. But they cost money, they are expensive. It appears to me like UFC is kind of against drug testing because if we use any of these VADA voluntary doping tests or clinics, these results come out before actual fights, so you don’t get to cash in your pay-per-view money. If we stick with the laxed commission testing, all those results come out after the event, so just in my opinion, I don’t really think they are for testing,” Bocek said. “But yeah, it looks like most people are on drugs and the more successful you are, the more money you have. The more money you have, you get targeted by guys like Victor Conte or some chemist and they’ll come up with a drug you can’t test for or is undetectable because you have the money for those things.”
Do you want to see fight promotions like the UFC get more serious about drug testing, as Bocek seems to suggest? Or, do you think the problem is exagerrated or that there isn't much more the UFC or regulators can do about it?
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Nick Diaz has not fought for a year and a half in the UFC Octagon. And that has suited the elite veteran just fine.
"I've just been doing a whole lot of not getting punched around, type stuff. Hanging around," he said to UFC.com in a recently released interview.
Diaz has made up with the UFC and come to terms to return to competition. Considering that he's fought professionally since he was just a teenager and been in many wars, the Stockton native said he's enjoyed his time off since losing a decision to Georges St. Pierre in March of 2013.
"I've been staying in shape pretty good. Been doing a lot of running. It's been a good experience having that much time off," he admitted.
Fans shouldn't assume that the returning welterweight has lost his focus, if he's lost ring time, however. " Just because I'm not getting punched around every day, doesn't mean that I'm not focused on what I'm doing," he maintained.
Diaz' last two bouts, against St. Pierre and Carlos Condit were for titles. He lost both of those fights on the scorecards but insists that he'd like to fight for a title again.
"I'd like to fight for the title. That would be a big deal. I think that would be worth fighting for," he said.
It's clear that Diaz believes that he's paid enough dues, throughout his career, to warrant nothing but big fights from here on out. It's also clear that he's a big name in MMA and one of the rare fighters that riles up emotions in fans and generates a great deal of interest in fights.
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As such, the controversial martial artist wants to make sure his time is well-spent. "I'f I'm not moving forward in this sport, than I don't need to be out there, making it through training camps to go and fight someone who is going to try and take my head off," he reasoned.
One such fighter could be long-time middleweight king Anderson Silva. Both fighters have expressed interest in the match up.
Silva is expected to return from his leg injuries in 2015, and Diaz has said that he'll likely return early that year, as well. Even though Diaz would be giving up a lot of size, he says a contest against "The Spider," would be "a great fight," and he likes how he'd match up against the striker.
"Stylistically, I think any kickboxers, that aren't wrestlers, are good match ups for me, most of the time," he said.
Whoever he fights next, Diaz promised not to change his style of perpetual motion and always going for the finish. He believes that many of his opponents have been rewarded by the judges for "running away," or "holding on to him," but Diaz can't bring himself to follow their lead.
"I could play that game, too," he said.
"But I've got to go home to a whole city of peoplewho are going to go. 'what the hell was that [expletive]?' So, I've got to keep it real and fight how I fight."
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