Koscheck and St-Pierre want Olympic-style drug testing
At Monday’s “The Ultimate Fighter 12” media day at the UFC Training Center in Las Vegas Josh Kostcheck “From what…
At Monday’s “The Ultimate Fighter 12” media day at the UFC Training Center in Las Vegas
Josh Kostcheck
“From what I’ve heard from other fighters in other camps, yeah, [St-Pierre] has done steroids and HGH, possibly, I don’t know. This is just on hearsay information that I’ve gotten.
“B.J. Penn and his camp gave me a little phone call. They were saying, ‘Yeah, he’s on steroids. He’s this; he’s that.’ I said, ‘Yeah, there’s a possibility.’ The guy is pretty ripped all year round.”
“I think Olympic-style testing would be great for our sport. At least you do it a couple times out from the fight.
“I think it will be a great idea.”
“This isn’t going to be a wrestling match. I’m going to force him to stand-up with me because I believe he doesn’t have knockout power. We’ve just got to pray to God that he doesn’t grease up, and he gets off that juice so that we can equal things about it.”
“I just want to let him know that if he’s going to do that, it doesn’t matter. I’m still going to beat you because it can’t make the chin that much stronger.”
“His chin’s still weak.”
Georges St-Pierre:
“I’m for random drug testing. There’s nobody in the UFC that agrees more with random testing then me. … Anything they want, I don’t care. I give my body to science.”
“I have no problem; anytime he wants,” St-Pierre said. “I stand for that more than anybody else. I stand for this, and I just hope it’s going to happen soon. I know a lot of people cheat in this sport, and it’s unacceptable.”
“I’m not a coward. Anyone that uses steroids is a cheater. I don’t need to cheat to win. I am like I am, and I’m somebody that is not a coward.
“I’m not afraid of Josh Koscheck, and I don’t need to cheat to beat him. I’m going to beat him by the book and using the right way.”
“I just hope that it’s going to happen and happen soon. I want it to happen. I don’t know who uses [performance-enhancing drugs]. I have no idea, and I’m not going to say any names, but I want it to happen soon. What’s happening now, it’s going to be bad. It’s going to be like a certain other sport. I don’t want to say the name of the sport, but it’s not going to be the best fighter that wins the fight.”
“Now, what makes a good fighter is a lot of genetics, the style, the skills, the heart. Now there is another factor that influences the fight: the team of doctors behind the fighter. This should not be an element that helps a fighter to win a fight. That’s something I am against. It’s not everybody that stands for that, and I don’t. I think everybody should be testing like the Olympic Games.”
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Olympic-style drug testing is considered superior to the typical urine-based tests used by athletic commissions around the country because by taking blood, the test is able to identify a greater range of performance-enhancing drugs, including Human Growth Hormone (HGH).