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Paulo Filho: ‘Everybody Takes PEDs in MMA. Question of Timing to Not Get Caught’

Paulo Filho: ‘Everybody Takes PEDs in MMA. Question of Timing to Not Get Caught’

 

 

PED is the hottest topic in MMA at the moment. The recent cases of Jon Jones (cocaine) , Anderson Silva , Nick Diaz, Jon Fitch and Hector Lombard have made the problem snowball out of control.

There have also been athletes such as GSP, Tim Kennedy or Ronda Rousey who have publicly denounced PEDs and the athletes that used them.

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Paulo Filho, former WEC champion and Pride champion, talked to TATAME, and called hypocrites athletes who have critcised fighters caught for PEDs. Filho is not stranger to substance abuse and steroids as he had many many problems in the past.

 

“Actually, I think anyone who is caught for marijuana should not even have to be punished. In the United States, marijuana is legal in several states. Cocaine only degrades you. Jon Jones was using, stopped, but the drug was still in his blood. He should be fined because it greatly harms the athlete. About anabolics, I’m seeing a show of hypocrisy in the media. It is sheer lack of ethics. All MMA athletes take PEDS. Only they do at the right time to avoid being caught. Do you think you will heal from an injury such that of Anderson had without taking anabolic? He needed to make the bone heal faster, and get muscles back faster too. It is disgusting that Anderson is getting badmouthed him, and everyone uses these substances. Anyone will fall if caught in these steroid testing at the wrong time. TRT, is no crime, just to replace a hormone that is lacking in many men, is banned. I can not understand, “