Cageside Quote - Jim Ross is "Shocked at the Apparent Failure of a Drug Test by Chael Sonnen"
by Geno Mrosko on Sep 21, 2010 1:17 PM EDT
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"...I was shocked to read of the news of the apparent failure of a drug test by one of my favorite MMA fighters, Chael Sonnen. I keep waiting for the matter to be resolved IE the test was erroneous as being suspended in a biz that provides one with a relatively short, shelf life to begin with could cause irreparable harm. If Chael misses up to a year in UFC, which kills his return fight with Anderson Silva, it could conservatively cost him $1M plus. The true test of an athlete is how they respond from a loss and temporarily losing one's career is a huge defeat. Just think of the chaos that this suspension would have caused if Sonnen had won the Silva fight as he should have after leading every round deep into the last 90 seconds of the fight. I am still a Chael Sonnen fan and hope that he can somehow make a positive out of this negative situation."
What Dana White said about the situation seems to be resonating with fans and media alike. All the facts have yet to be released but somehow it seems that people are worried about Sonnen's financial situation more than they are about the sport and the possible ramifications of his failing a drug test for steroids. One theory is that Major League Baseball was in the headlines for so long with their battle against it, fans just stopped caring. Fighting drug use in sports is an undertaking that requires a sustained energy that casual fans just don't have. There are more important things in life then whether or not Chael Sonnen failed a drug test or is (allegedly) doing steroids.
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I guess I'm a bad guy
but I’m pretty much with Dana and Jim Ross on this one.
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you just want it to go away?
Forget it Donny, you're out of your element.
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I think there’s a belief that not only are steroid cheats an issue in sports, but on the other side of the coin test validity is an issue. I spent most of yesterday researching it and some of the stuff I read was shocking. I’m still trying to work out a story to write on it all.
It really is a difficult subject,
but the one thing I’ll step out on a limb and say definitively is that certain people (probably in an effort to further their own careers) make a much bigger deal out of this than most of the sporting audience seems to.
I’m just sick of PED’s being the money story for so many ‘journalists’ trying to take their careers to the next level. It’s not a dig at anyone here or even on SBN. It’s just, by the very definition of being a regulatory exercise, completely counterproductive and I get sick of people feeling like they need to attack something or someone in order to participate in a given field.
Plus, like you said (and I learned myself many years ago), the vast majority of testing procedures are incredibly unreliable and prone to human inconsistency a lot more than they should be.
If I was a hungry man with a gun in my hand and some promises to keep...
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