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Dana White says UFC making the effort on PED testing, and "it's either going to be good enough for GSP or it's not"
Aug 31, 2014 - 11:05:18 AM Dana White says UFC making the effort on PED testing, and "it's either going to be good enough for GSP or it's not"

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By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

"We won't. We'll just put up the money and the commission will decide which guys get tested. We're putting up the money and making the commissions more able to catch cheaters, because with their budgets, they couldn't do it. So we're beefing up the funds. And if you are doing performance enhancing drugs of any kind, you will get caught. It's not like the commission don't have guys that they'd like to test and things they'd like to do, most of them just don't have the budgets for it. So were going pump up their budgets so they can do what they want to do. We want to clean up the sport. Listen, PEDs hurt everybody. And it's one thing if you're using PEDs in baseball, you're going to hit a (expletive) ball over a wall further or something like that. But when you use PEDs in a combat sport, you're putting peoples' lives at risk... I don't know [if GSP will return], that's up to GSP, he can do whatever he wants. I mean, that's up to him. We're doing what we can do. We're putting up the money, we're doing what we can do. It's either going to be good enough for GSP or it's not, that's up to him. He's a grown man, he can do whatever he wants to do."

-UFC President Dana White responded to a question about their plans for increased PED testing, and whether or not it would be enough for GSP, in an interview with the Boston Herald.

Penick's Analysis: If the UFC can successfully put together a talked about program with a third party organization to conduct random testing throughout the year, while working in conjunction with state commissions and other regulatory agencies as far as punishment for violations is concerned, then that's going to represent a real push to take PEDs out of the sport. Whether that's going to be enough to push St-Pierre back towards a return is up in the air right now. He's going to want to see it actually implemented, and see that it's something they're serious about, and when he recovers from his latest knee injury, we'll find out what he wants to do from there.

[GSP art by Travis Beaven (c) MMATorch.com]