Kennedy: There’s a crazy problem
Tim Kennedy: “I’m talking about like something horrible, maybe even something gone wrong where a bad drug is used and something happens to the athlete before the fight…”
Tim Kennedy today appeared on the MMA Hour where he discussed the growing issue of performance enhancing drugs with host Ariel Helwani:
There’s a crazy problem,” Kennedy told Ariel Helwani on Monday’s edition of The MMA Hour. “The inevitable is gonna happen and where somebody is going to get seriously hurt and the person that caused that is gonna test positive and then the sport is … “
Kennedy, a longtime anti-drug advocate in MMA, didn’t have to finish his thought. We all get where he was going — to a scary place. One Kennedy thinks is inevitable at this point.
“I’m talking about like something horrible, maybe even something gone wrong where a bad drug is used and something happens to the athlete before the fight and now his kidneys are failing and his liver is failing,” Kennedy said. “Guess what? That’s what happens when you use steroids. So yeah, it’s going to get worse before it gets better.”