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Vitor Belfort on December return at UFC 181: "No more TRT. Now it's TNT"
Jul 28, 2014 - 8:15:05 PM Vitor Belfort on December return at UFC 181: "No more TRT. Now it's TNT"

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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

"I’m like an animal. TRT doesn’t give you spinning kicks, uppercuts. You can put TRT in your body. Look all those guys that were on TRT, they didn’t have good performances. Why? That’s the question... First of all, I didn’t have any illegal substances in my body. Nothing was wrong. Everybody knew I was in TRT. Nevada knew it. I could have denied [to do the random test] because I wasn’t licensed back then and they asked me to do it. People made it become a big issue. I’m glad it’s no more. People talked that I was this and that, [saying] I was on steroids. I wasn’t on steroids, I was doing TRT. I had no illegal substances in my body. I was clear. I opened all my tests. I used to do tests every week to see how my levels were. When you’re true to yourself and don’t try to cheat the system. A lot of guys, they just talk. I deal in a true way, open up my personal things. When you’re in treatment, your ratio goes outside and it became a big issue. I wasn’t cheating at all. I spent a lot of money in testing myself. It is what it is. It’s gone. No more TRT. Now, it’s TNT."

-Vitor Belfort talks to Ariel Helwani on The MMA Hour about getting licensed and fighting Chris Weidman off of TRT in December.

Penick's Analysis: Because the commission opted to license him, there’s no reason for now to continue harping on the February drug test failure. There's nothing that can be done. Now we see whether or not they follow up with any type of random testing as they've claimed they're going to do. If they do, and he passes, we'll see him on Dec. 6, and he'll get a chance to prove he can have the types of performances he had off TRT that he had on it last year.