Even with heavyweights you don't really see very built guys you mostly get skinny dudes and pudgy fat guys? Why are more MMA fighters not built like Don Frye or Bob Sapp anymore?
Why are most MMA fighters no longer jacked to the gills like in the good old days?
USADA
This. And that is a bad thing. Bring the roid freaks back.
Usada
Because the standards for drug testing changed.
USADA.
Not really effective at drug testing considering how top competitors like Jon Jones slip by despite absolutely being on gear, and the thing is Jones is still pretty slim despite using gear, why is that?
But Jon Jones was caught when he tested positive so I don’t get your point
He was caught once but his test results are questionable or inconclusive a lot of the time and they still let him fight.
it's not an all or nothing thing. If they make it harder for them to cheat then they're leaving all the gains they could have otherwise gotten away with on the table.
Friendly reminder that Jon Jones has never won a single fight without abusing steroids, eye pokes, questionable kicks, elbows to the back of the head, abusing pregnant mothers, and cheating at every possible instance.
DC pls go
I don't like the guy and he's definitely a dirty fighting roidtroony but he is good at MMA.
I thought Yakuza had international branches though? Or is Signapore Triad territory? Also jeeze, how far does that go? Can the jap government just unperson you on the suspicion you are a Yakuza associate?
As far as I'm aware the only time yakuza tried anything international they ended up trying to guy guns from glowies in hawaii.
I'm not certain but given cantonese is an offical language in SG and they don't particularly like japan after being held by japanese forces in WWII, triad seem a lot more likely.
Yes, thats exactly what the yakuza laws are intended to do.
Yeah I can be good at MMA too, when I pull out everyone's eyeballs. Why did no one break his fingers anyways? At that point you stop caring and start cheating too
The UFC(or the commission) makes some dumb ass decisions and the really seem to prefer fighters that make more money in rulings, there was that guy that got fish hooked so he bit the guys finger and they stole 200k from him or something ridiculous.
Salty Khabib muslim fan detected
Can't be on as much gear as they used to. USADA is no fun allowed.
He can't use as much gear the Ken Shamrock and Tito Ortiz days without getting caught because of USADA. He was also trying to stay at a weight where cutting to 205 was feasible.
You mean in America, over in Japan fighters were encouraged to take PEDs.
bob sapp was terrible lol
He was fun.
Holy shit that dude lost 50% of his fights via KO. I wonder how many working brain cells he still has.
He's actually okay, the reason why he lost so many fights was because he was taking dives for a quick paycheck, and he got paid good money too.
Wasn't the Yakuza meddling with a lot of Pride shit? Like they would try to fix fights and stuff like that?
Yeah every Pride event before Pride 16 fights were fixed and then they moved on to less subtle methods like telling the referee what to do over an ear microphone, giving some fighters 2 weeks notice and giving others months to train, not telling fighters who they going to fight, that stuff. Gary Goodridge talks about it in his book.
I wonder if the Yakuza influences Rizin or ONE any, probably not they are pretty dead.
Rizin probably but mostly because the legit yakuza operations are pretty much all involved in entertainment. ONE only if the event is held in japan because the promotion is based in singapore.
Yakuza is either super underground or dead at this point. They pretty much can't operate as an organisation any more. Under the new legislation if you're associated with yakuza you can't have a bank account, hold property, purchase a phone, own a car, etc.
The yakuza nowadays is all affliated with construction scams like the chinese, since it is much more profitable than trying to racketeer a bunch of poors in the slums.
Also changing the weight class 2 days before the fight because the fix was in for the heavy guy. I believe that happened to either Wanderlei or Henderson
Yes but bob sapp straight up told pride and some other japanese org (dream?) if he doesn't finish his oppnent in 90 swconds he's taking a dive because they don't pay enough for him to get brain damage
He really only had his iconic bubbly look.
That reminds me of the time I mistook Jacuzzi and Yakuza.
Long story short I ended up in hot water with the Japanese Mafia
muscles cost oxygen
Isn't it a well known "open secret" that most fighters are on some form of PEDs? This shit has been talked about to death.
They are absolutely all on some chinese wetmarket shit but they still are not as yoked as fighters were back in the day.
Basically everyone uses HGH for faster recoveries. This goes for most sports. Almost impossible to get caught unless you really frick up. They just stop using it when the fight date is getting close.
I’m sure there are a few other things that many top athletes do that they can easily get away with like blood transfusions (adding more red blood cells to your body increases oxygen delivery to the muscles and thus endurance)
They now have actual skills to learn rather than be a roided gymrat.
weight classes
Even heavyweights don't look like that nowadays dumbass.
If they started testing for P.E.D.s then there you go. You can either afford the Lance Armstrong shit or you can't.
Achievable natty? This is surely peak performance.
I miss K1 like you wouldn't believe
Who's that guy?
Jon jones and Alistair Overeem
He was always a skinny dude. Look at his early days. When he gained weight it was roid weight.
Nah that's his cousin Ubereem
Every so often you will still see a jacked fighter, but its rare to see jacked heavyweights because even at the upper echelon of sports, its hard to be 260lbs at 9-14% bodyfat naturally
I don't mean big and shredded, but just big muscular guys like Bob Sapp, I don't think he's below 15% bf either, he's just really built.
There are still guys in middleweight and welterweight with insane physiques. Heavier weightclasses just are garbage so its filled with unathletic fatsos.
Why is the heavyweight division in UFC so shit?
205 has some of the craziest and most impressive physiques in the sport.
The should bring back super heavyweight.
frick i miss gsp, that motherfricker was natty and he can still beat roided monsters
sorry to break this to you anon but gsp was never natty
GSP literally pushed for harder testing and Nate Diaz is just a salty little b***h
he did that because hendricks was beating his ass lol. testing wouldn't affect him because he still preserved the myonuclei he formed from when he was non-natty
lmao if you think hendricks could hold a candle to roided matt hughes, matt serra or bj penn which gsp all beat