Bocek: PEDs in MMA ‘worse than people realize’
Last week Canadian lightweight Mark Bocek announced his retirement from MMA and later cited PED use in the sport as the major reason. He expanded to MMAJunkie.
Last week Canadian lightweight Mark Bocek announced his retirement from MMA and later cited PED use in the sport as the major reason. He expanded on his point to MMAJunkie this weekend:
I’m a realistic person, and I look at it like I could do all the PEDs on the planet and still be able to compete with guys, but if I don’t, it’s just not going to happen, Bocek told MMAjunkie. I’d rather go out like this with a good memory of the sport. I didn’t want to leave with a sour feeling on the sport, with a loss, with hating the sport. So I guess the difference between me and everyone is I’m just a little more realistic. In the end, not everybody becomes the champion.
I think it’s worse than people realize, Bocek said. I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the way things are going, you kind of deserve to lose if you’re not on PEDs nowadays. I used to think of it as cheating, but you can’t call it cheating when everyone is doing it. You go in there and lose to someone on PEDs, it’s like, what did you expect? Did you think you were going to knock out some guy on PEDs in the highest MMA league in the world? People get away with cheating in the Olympics, which has much stricter testing than in the UFC, so you can imagine what people get away with in the UFC.