Gabi Garcia is visibly steroid. Chris Cyborg is known. I guess these women get detected because they show symptoms and if you see some of Holly Holms pictures, she is displaying certain symptoms that female bodybuilders show but I do not wish to get into those.
Besides women, how many men are into this? Can anyone give an estimate and also shed light on how you are coming to that estimate?
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Is there a lot of people on Sherdog who just didn't play sports or follow sports at all growing up?
Once you get to the highest levels of competition almost everyone is going to be using PEDs. It's basically a fact. Every olympic lifter is on steroids, almost to literally all olympians are on PEDs, virtually every NFL player (omitting kickers/punters/some QBs) are on steroids/HGH.
I'd say the majority to vast majority of MMA fighters are using some PED. In the UFC specifically, I'd say the majority are still. People thought and think USADA is some amazing testing org, well it's not. They are actually kind of a joke in some ways and it's not impossible to beat legit testing anyway.
More men than women use steroids too hence the highlight there. Any untested league/organization is just going to be full to the brim with PED use, i.e. submission grappling and BJJ who don't test, some powerlifting orgs, strongman.
It just makes way too much sense to use PEDs, they work and they work fucking well. In a sport like MMA or football you're just taking a fucking beating all the time. So you not only add strength-speed, but the ability to recover at god-tier levels as opposed to maybe being a 34-40 year broken down athlete.
Another example that everyone should know is the MLB. Everyone was using steroids...lol. They worked. Basically all the scams and bullshit supplements and super foods, all those claims that were extreme hyperbole or false...well steroids actually is that. So it makes no sense to NOT take PEDs when there's like a 1% gap between being a 13-17th ranked fighter and being a top 5 guy.
