CONTACTABOUTFACEBOOKTWITTERPODCAST IPHONE APPANDROID APPAMAZON APPWINDOWS APPRSS
NEW FORUM

GOT THE MMATORCH APP YET?
iPhone & iPad
Android
Kindle Fire
Windows Phone
MMATORCH IPHONE APP

MMATORCH

All the MMA News • Plus Intelligent, Brilliant, Addictive Points of View!
Independently Covering MMA Since 1993 • No Big Corporate Bosses

UFC
Chris Weidman still questioning Vitor Belfort's testosterone levels after UFC 187: "There's something that's happening there"
May 24, 2015 - 10:45:49 AM
Chris Weidman still questioning Vitor Belfort's testosterone levels after UFC 187: "There's something that's happening there"
DISCUSS ALL THIS IN OUR NEW MMATORCH FORUM
...OH, ONE MORE THING - PLEASE BOOKMARK US & VISIT DAILY!



Chris_Weidman_wide_6.jpg


By: Jamie Penick, MMATorch Editor-in-Chief

"I left him alone with this whole TRT thing. He got caught cheating a couple times. I left him alone throughout the whole camp. I didn't really want to think about it, but then when I was at the media scrum [ESPN reporter Brett Okamoto] told me that he had called up Nevada and got our tests back. Both of my scores were like 370 and 370 both times, which is on the low side. But this is during training camp and we're killing ourselves. And this was between two weeks ago and four weeks ago, so it's in the heat of the training camp.

His was 500 and 1,200. So, I'm like, 'All right. This is a guy who needed TRT for his whole life – not his whole life, but for such a long time because he was suffering and he couldn't live without it. And now, all of a sudden he has four times the amount as me and he's 10 years older. There's something that's happening there.' And I wouldn't say it if I didn't think it was messed up. I just think it was messed up and I told him. It didn't really bother me when Okamoto told me. I'm like 'Yeah, I'm going to fight him. Whatever.' Then when weigh-ins came around, for some reason, I kind of got emotional into it. But when it came down to tonight, I just kind of put it aside and it was just competition.

... It was different. This was probably the first time where I was emotionally pissed off. So, I had to kind of put it to the side. I wouldn't say it was difficult, but it was a thought process. This is a fight, it's just another competition is what I thought. And he said that he passed the tests and he did. I guess they do the level between the epitestosterone and the testosterone and so I think that somehow the level remained normal. Anybody who knows their stuff can probably figure out something there."


-UFC Champ Chris Weidman continues to question the drug test results of Vitor Belfort after their fight at the UFC 187 post-fight press conference (transcribed by MMAJunkie.com).

Penick's Analysis: Unfortunately the numbers themselves aren't enough to go on, seeing as it was done with urinalysis and they're not wholly accurate in determining free testosterone in the system. However, it's reasonable for Weidman to express his concern like this, because it's absolutely questionable. If Belfort needed TRT for hypogonadism as he's claimed numerous times, then that was because his body stopped producing testosterone naturally. So if he's at the high end of normal levels without that particular hormone therapy, how is he getting there? What, if anything, is he taking that is allowing his body to produce those levels of testosterone? Unfortunately again, that's just not something we're likely to find out, as no blood testing was done, and no carbon isotope ratio testing was done on the urine samples to determine if there were any foreign substances used in this instance. Weidman used it as fuel and beat the crap out of Belfort in the cage, but it's hard to blame him for being as upset as he was before the fight, and to question how Belfort's system was producing those numbers.


DON'T GO YET... WE SUGGEST THESE MMATORCH ARTICLES, TOO!
Michael Bisping takes another shot at Anderson Silva after passing random USADA drug test
B.J. Penn responds to sexual assault allegations, claims extortion from accusers
Kevin Lee vs. Efrain Escudero, Danny Roberts vs. Dominique Steele join UFC 197 card in Las Vegas

comments powered by Disqus
HERE ARE EVEN MORE ARTICLES THAT MIGHT INTEREST YOU

SELECT ARTICLES BY CATEGORY
SEARCH MMATORCH BY KEYWORD


MMATORCH CALENDAR OF EVENTS
CLICK HERE FOR LIST OF UPCOMING MMA EVENTS
CLICK TO SEE A UFC VIDEO BELOW

ARTICLES OF INTEREST ELSEWHERE
MMATORCH POLL - VOTE NOW!

Will T.J. Dillashaw and Urijah Faber eventually fight?
 
pollcode.com free polls

Do you think Daniel Cormier will defeat returning Jon Jones to legitimize UFC Light Heavyweight Title reign?
 
pollcode.com free polls

VOTE IN OR SEE RESULTS OF PREVIOUS POLLS

MMATORCH WEEKLY LIVECAST
Listen to the weekly MMATORCH LIVECAST on Blog Talk Radio


MMATORCH STAFF

EDITORS:

Wade Keller, supervising editor
(mmatorch@gmail.com)

Jamie Penick, editor-in-chief
(mmatorcheditor@gmail.com)

STAFF COLUMNISTS:

Shawn Ennis - Jason Amadi
Frank Hyden - Rich Hansen
Chris Park - Matt Pelkey


Interested in joining MMATorch's writing team? Send idea for a theme to your column (for Specialist section) or area of interest (i.e. TV Reporter) along with a sample of writing to mmatorch@gmail.com.

MORE MMA SITES
CONTACTABOUTFACEBOOKTWITTERPODCAST IPHONE APPANDROID APPAMAZON APPWINDOWS APPRSS
THE TORCH: #1 IN COMBAT ENTERTAINMENT COVERAGE | © 1999-2013 TDH Communications Inc. • All rights reserved -- PRIVACY POLICY