Weidman: Fighters who fail PED test should be thrown out of MMA

Chris Weidman talks about his loss to Yoel Romero at UFC 205 in New York at the post-fight press conference. The All American discussed how although he suffered the worst KO of the night he is fine and smiling, the long walk to legalization in New York, how fighting in Madison Square Garden was the realization of a dream (until he lost), the eye poke, and Romero’s in-Octagon antics.

Weidman also discussed PEDs and that he agrees with middleweight champion Michael Bisping that fighters who fail a PED test should be one and done.

“I was kind of with Bisping,” began Weidman. “I started thinking about it before this fight. The people failing these PED test, I just feel they shouldn’t even be fighting anymore. A lot of guys I have fought in the past have failed for steroids. Almost a good majority of my last six fights. So I’ve been fighting these guys, and he’s another guy that failed a drug test.”

“I’ve got to go out there and try to get a W.”

“It’s very tough. A very tough night. This is not the way I imagined this going. I still see the beauty in the little things that I got to experience – that walkout, the weigh-ins, every part of it I felt the love, so it was nice.”

Weidman’s last six fights were:
Yoel Romero • UFC 205 • November 12, 2016 • FAILED PED TEST
Luke Rockhold • UFC 194 • December 12, 2015
Vitor Belfort • UFC 187 • May 23, 2015 • FAILED PED TEST
Lyoto Machida • UFC 175 • July 5, 2014 • FAILED PED TEST
Anderson Silva • UFC 168 • December 28, 2013 • FAILED PED TEST
Anderson Silva • UFC 162 July 6, 2013 • FAILED PED TEST

Thus Weidman’s quote about, “almost a good majority of my last six fights,” is not even an almost, it’s an all but one.