What a crock of shit this has turned out to be.
Firstly for those who are quoting Pederneiras saying that he would pay for McGregor and Aldo to be tested 3 days a week out of his own pocket, this is call lip service.
Even if he genuinely meant what he was saying the result would be Andre paying for the Brazilian commission and their cronies to carry out the testing and we all know that CABMMA and the senior members of that organization have in the past been complicit in dubious post fight TRT levels (Bigfoot) and if you needed further evidence that the Brazilian commission are happy to cover for fighters who are juicing then why not take a look at how stringently they tested Vitor when the whole world knew what he was up to.
I understand Brazilians passionately defending their fighters and fellow countrymen but there is a point where blindly sticking by a fighter who has pulled out of a completely disproportionate amount of fights not scheduled to take place on Brazilian soil and has failed to comply with "random" testing in the most farcical of circumstances that it must be apparent that there is something untoward going on at the camp.
PED use is rampant, nationality should not be called into question when leveling accusations at a fighter but the fact is that CABMMA has demonstrated they will protect their own fighters even when it flies in the face of protocol and the rules designed to create a level playing field.
Brazilians can have no complaints when they come in for criticism from fans stating that there is a PED problem in Brazilian MMA because the very institution in charge on testing are clearly corrupt and allowing select fighters to bend the rules as they please.
As someone previously stated, in no other sport could an athlete be asked to supply a random drug test and refuse without consequences.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/fo...etent-testers-according-to-Alex-Ferguson.html
Regarding the presence of the off duty police man in the gym, he should be prosecuted and fined for interfering with a process that had absolutely nothing to do with him.
In my opinion it stinks of a pre-orchestrated plan to run interference in the event that a tester shows up.
People defending Aldo would have you believe that this police man fresh out of a training session approached a random tester and within minutes ascertained that he did not have the proper paper work to do his job. Firstly, isn't it convenient that the officer in question was already familiar enough with the legal documents and process required by a NSAC representative that he could in a split second decide that the tester should be apprehended and the test destroyed due to the "invalid" (100% VALID) paperwork he had with him.
Also, the fact the Pederneiras received a phone call, knew of and agreed to the test, knew when it would take place and only decided to call CABMMA when he arrived at the gym should also raise eyebrows.
You literally could not make up a more convoluted series of events.
I was a fan of Aldo but it's hard to see him as anything other than a fragile little cheater these days.
We now know that the accusation that he did not have the correct paperwork was bullshit and that is the crux of the whole issue.
The test would have been completed as was scheduled had it not been for a biased party wrongfully apprehending the tester and wrongfully claiming he was not authorized to take a sample.
