Why does MMA get held to a different standard than other sports regarding PEDs?

[Thunderchild]

If football were more dangerous why don't the majority of players have to be taken to the ER or at least a hospital after a game?

Because it is a real sport with team doctors that check out and treat players at the facility and not a rinky-dink sport that slaps you on the back and sends you to the local hospital to be checked out

 

[xentreos]

It is funny , 4 games in the nfl is standard for ped violation if they are caught at all. NFL has all but stated they don’t care about PED use. Will never forget Peyton Manning getting roids mailed to his house in his wife’s name lol like wtf

 

[RightToBareKnuckles]

I'd say MMA gives BOTH immediate visible AND long-term invisible damage ..

agreed. and my theory is that the helmets in NFL do more harm than good. i've done no research on that,

 

[Tuf_guy]

It's basically known than most top NBA/NFL/MLB players are all on something, yet none of these orgs use USADA, and 99.99% of fans of these sports don't care in the least. Football is even more dangerous than MMA, yet peds are widespread and NFL drug testing is a joke. So why do only MMA/UFC fan get bent out of shape over PEDs?

Just responding to the title.

Maybe because MMA is a combat sport which can and often does have longterm impact on people physically, ultimately financially as well.
Your basketball team loses, you still may have a job, and you probably didn't get a concussion because the opposing team had a roider or two.

 

[Superman Elbow]

Because it is a real sport with team doctors that check out and treat players at the facility and not a rinky-dink sport that slaps you on the back and sends you to the local hospital to be checked out

Or because there are more serious injuries in mma.

 

[Thunderchild]

Or because there are more serious injuries in mma.

No.

 

[Telford90]

The main problem lies on or is a free for all thing or not... If exists strict testing but big names can get around we ain't seeing even play field... That is bullshit, if guys can get roided with trt exempt and everyone else has to be clean is not even play field... Just get a way that everyone can or can't.

100% this. If they didnt have USADA I wouldn't care, but they do. If you're going to make PED testing at the forefront of your product, it needs to be even handed across the board.

The issue isn't whether they do PED testing, it's that the playing field needs to be equal.

 

[campbecc]

MLB tests a lot. NFL tests quite a bit but I don't remember hearing about basketball players being suspended so their tests must be a joke (though to be fair NBA players could all afford the very best designer drugs)

 

[gevoudane]

Biking seems to be the one that got hit the hardest. They even send spies in to the athletes homes and residence to try and pop them.

 

[Superman Elbow]

No.

Sooooo I'll try again, than why are fighters given medical suspensions after fights where they are not permitted to train? It's because they sustain more injuries.

 

[Thunderchild]

Sooooo I'll try again, than why are fighters given medical suspensions after fights where they are not permitted to train? It's because they sustain more injuries.

Ok. MMA is more dangerous. I'm convinced.

 

[campbecc]

If football were more dangerous why don't the majority of players have to be taken to the ER or at least a hospital after a game?

But they compete so much more often

 

[laleggenda27]

It's basically known than most top NBA/NFL/MLB players are all on something, yet none of these orgs use USADA, and 99.99% of fans of these sports don't care in the least. Football is even more dangerous than MMA, yet peds are widespread and NFL drug testing is a joke. So why do only MMA/UFC fan get bent out of shape over PEDs?

Your whole post loses credibility when the very first sentence is nothing more than silly conjecture presented as fact. And I have no idea why you lumped the NBA into your hyperbolic thesis.

 

[DespicablePeep]

It's basically known than most top NBA/NFL/MLB players are all on something, yet none of these orgs use USADA, and 99.99% of fans of these sports don't care in the least. Football is even more dangerous than MMA, yet peds are widespread and NFL drug testing is a joke. So why do only MMA/UFC fan get bent out of shape over PEDs?

Americans are known drug users, outside US doping is frowned uppon. Is US as long as you win and make money nobody cares

 

[Superman Elbow]

G

Ok. MMA is more dangerous. I'm convinced.

Good.

 

[magicmarker]

You are missing my point entirely.....

Yes there are 11 guys to "worry", yes they can be bigger, yes there are more moving pieces to consider.... however of those 11, some have blocking assignments, some have pass protection assignments, no one has an assignment to kick someone in the face without a helmet or pads of any kind with the specific intention to cause a KO, or to break someone's arm, dislocate a knee, etc... yes those can happen in football, but that is not the goal...

This isn't about which has more potential for injury, we are talking about the steps taking to prevent cheating. If a quarterback juices it isn't as dangerous to the opponents than as when JBJ does it in a fight.

Plus you have nine or ten actively trying to protect you with their assignments.

 

[jeremyemilio]

It's basically known than most top NBA/NFL/MLB players are all on something, yet none of these orgs use USADA, and 99.99% of fans of these sports don't care in the least. Football is even more dangerous than MMA, yet peds are widespread and NFL drug testing is a joke. So why do only MMA/UFC fan get bent out of shape over PEDs?

Do you even Baseball, bro?

Barry Bonds isn't in the HOF. Barry. Fucking. Bonds.

Anderson and Jones will both be in the UFC HOF before Bonds makes the MLB HOF. Again. Barry. Fucking. Bonds.