Is Fedor Emelianenko Pulling A Floyd Mayweather Jr.? Wants Drug Testing Against Overeem
by Kelvin Hunt on Feb 26, 2010 10:00 AM EST
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Remember when Floyed Mayweather Jr. wanted Manny Pacquio to pass a drug test before their boxing match that subsequently never happened? According to our SBN brethren at Headkick Legend, Fedor Emelianenko will not fight Strikeforce heavyweight champion Alistair Overeem unless he takes a drug test. Check it:
M-1's Apy Echteld said that they were interested in fighting Overeem, however they would not fight unless Overeem was drug tested leading up to the fight. In response, Martijn de Jong from Overeem's team expressed his belief that Fedor deserves a shot at this Strikeforce title, and that they look forward to a potential fight.
#1. If anyone deserves a shot at that Strikeforce heavyweight belt it's Fedor Emelianenko.
#2. I think it's pretty retarded that M-1 has come out with this now. I mean how long have we been talking about this Emelienenko/Overeem match up? Also, if the fight takes place in North America(as it should) there will be some type of drug testing.
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With Overeem
there is a very good reason for anyone to come to the conclusion Overeem is on roids. Just look at him.
What baffles me is why Strikeforce even has this guy as their champ when he hasn’t fought for them in how long? Now thats retarded.
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by _Felix_ on Feb 26, 2010 10:14 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
its not really
if only for the name association they need him happy, if they stripped him he’d leave.
you and i know they can’t afford that.
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by RearNakedPoke on Feb 26, 2010 10:29 AM EST up reply actions
Uber-eem (I love that name, Eveezy) is not on roids, he just loves his cows, horses and potatoes.
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by VeeisAnimated on Feb 26, 2010 12:26 PM EST up reply actions
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And agreed
I'm gonna make a bold prediction here and say Cain "pillowhands" (as some of you have called him) lol Velasquez catches Nog right on the chin and finishes via strikes on the ground. Nog looked good against an old Randy. It didn't show me much. We’ll see.
by xFenixKnightx on Feb 18, 2010 11:09 AM CST reply actions 0 recs
No he isn’t.
Floyd Mayweather wanted a whole bunch of ridiculous drug tests in place for a guy who has never failed a test quite frankly hasn’t mutated into a horse.
Overeem on the other hand… the guy is on some strong shit and everyone knows it. Fedor has no reason to fight the most juiced up athlete in MMA.
by cauliflower_ears on Feb 26, 2010 10:29 AM EST reply actions
Disagree
PBF did it because he wanted to mess and distract Manny. Fedor is doing this because Overeem evolve into Ubereem. IF this fight happens this year it will be in South Korea under Dreams banner.
by Erich Vowell on Feb 26, 2010 10:31 AM EST via mobile reply actions
btw
Overeem is fighting k-1 in March or April. Should be some fun wackyness
by Erich Vowell on Feb 26, 2010 10:33 AM EST via mobile reply actions
Since when is it that when a fighter asks that their opponent has drug testeing makes them an ass? Every damn one of these fighters should be tested randomly from the day they sign a contract to the day after the fight. I don’t want to see some druged up muscle heads in the ring fighting. In the current sports envirment, if you want to be taken seriously by the public you better have a strict drug testing policy. The public wants their sports figures clean from drugs. Look at those that have been found out, Bonds, Sosa, A-Rod, Giambi, Dwain Chambers, Marion Jones, Tim Montgomery, Sheffeild, McGwire, Clemens….. The list goes on. Those people have been ostracized in the public.
As for the “Pacman”, he can go eat his own ass for backing down from the fight with Floyd because he didn’t want his blood tested.
Honestly
If a fighter was using steriods under the proper guideless a doctor or nutritional specialist I wouldn’t care. Regulated steroid use dosen’t bother me. What bothers me is gym rats or fighters themsleves roiding themselves to the gills and dying at an early age.
by Erich Vowell on Feb 26, 2010 12:51 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Drug Test Science
There’s a huge difference between Olympic style drug test and the urine test offered by the state commission regulatory body.
Fortunately, I don’t think the issue concerning urine vs. blood test will end with the potential match between Mayweather Jr. and Pacquiao. Shane Mosley, Mayweather Jr.’s next opponent, was caught using drug but not by the standard urine test.
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Agreed
Too expensive to do blood testing.
by Erich Vowell on Feb 26, 2010 3:21 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
I'm thinking
Fedor will fight anyone…steroids or not(after all he did fight in PRIDE)…this is all M-1
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It's pretty weak
But I really don’t blame them. I mean look at the guy, he’s exploded in recent years, and has coincidentally not fought anywhere that actually tests people.
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How is it weak for a person to demand that the person he faces is clean for drugs and steroids? It’s weak if you don’t. M-1’s rep may not be the best but here, they are 100% in the right for this. Blood and urine random testing should be done for all sports. I really don’t want to hear that the companys (NHL, NBA, NFL, MLB, UFC, NCAA, Strikeforce, even stupid ass NASCAR and the PGA) can’t afford this. As for thou poor ass unions(and unions should be abolished) should agree to it. Thank baseball for this but now, if you are too strong or too fast or too good, you better agree to be tested.
You do realize commissions already do testing?
They’re asking for additional testing, before the event takes place. It isn’t like MMA is some unsanctioned wild-west, where people are shooting up all over the place. The only places testing doesn’t take place is when there isn’t an athletic commission in place to do it, and typically big shows like Strikeforce and the UFC don’t go there. And when the UFC has gone places, they do testing, and they suspend fighters just like the athletic commissions do.. just ask Chris Leben after the Bisping fight in England.
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Let’s not talk about MLB, NFL or NBA. Forget about sports enhancement drugs for a second, those pain-killers and cortisone shots are hurting many players.
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by VeeisAnimated on Feb 27, 2010 12:50 AM EST up reply actions
I do know that commissions do testing but that’s 50 different commissions. Same standards or not I don’t think it is good enough anymore. The big four sports of North America(The NHL, NFL, NBA, and MLB) all do their own testing via outside labs. My question/demand is that the UFC and Strikeforce take it upon themselves to test the fighters that are under contract with them. Hell, even the WWE randomly tests their own people that are under contract with them. Pawning off that issue on others while at the same time trying to become a main stream sport like the big four will only lead to scandel(BALCO and “Game of Shadows”) and then goverment intervention (Cansaco, Bonds, McGwire, Sosa, MLB commisioner Bud Selig, and MLBPA exc. director Donald Fehr getting drilled by congress). And goverment intervention, sucks.
Agreed
but Strikeforce and the UFC are not going to pay for blood or any other suffisticated testing. Unless they paid the fighters less or charge more for PPV and DVD’s.
by Erich Vowell on Feb 26, 2010 7:59 PM EST up reply actions
My question/demand is that the UFC and Strikeforce take it upon themselves to test the fighters that are under contract with them. Hell, even the WWE randomly tests their own people that are under contract with them.
(I assume) the MLB/NBA/WE(whatever) do testing, and that’s great. The UFC doesn’t NEED to do testing, because the state athletic comissions they run in do testing. Why would the UFC pay the money to test guys when athletic comissions are already doing it? You say the WWE tests their own people, but they have to because no athletic comission does. It would be different if nobody was doing it, but the only thing that Strikeforce/UFC doing their own testing will do is put money in the pockets of the testing facilities, because they’ll be being paid to test the same blood sample twice.
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What are you talking about?
No commissions in the US currently test blood samples
by Erich Vowell on Feb 26, 2010 11:59 PM EST via mobile up reply actions
Sorry
…because they’ll be being paid to test the same piss sample twice.
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Current drug testing done by state boxing commissions 'a joke'
Here’s an article that discusses the blood vs. urine argument. Keep in mind, it is a little biased.
http://www.mlive.com/mayweather/index.ssf/2010/01/usadas_travis_tygart_current_d.html
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by VeeisAnimated on Feb 27, 2010 12:59 AM EST up reply actions
Oh yeah, no doubt
The fact that there are fighters even in MMA that can time their cycles on and off to fit the schedule, not to mention clean themselves out is proof enough that just about anything can be skirted. I would say that rather than MORE testing, if people want to get down on the drug usage they should be calling for BETTER testing. The NSAC started doing some random testing a while back, but seemed to have cut back on it due to budget constraints, and that’s a step in the right direction.
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