Paulo Costa says ex-trainer attempted to blackmail him with IV video

[vengeful]

mma is a very small world, word gets around.

How did yoel get the original video?

Do you believe this guy gave the video to USADA for free?

Or is it more likely he sold it to Malki/Jon?

When did he have the video? The video has been posted on the internet since last year. Unless he's the first to post it, he just used what someone else had already uploaded.

 

[Frank Edgar]

no evidence at all that iv's are any better for rehydration in athletes suffering dehydration than other methods.

No evidence that it's better doesn't mean that athletes don't use it for that purpose. There is evidence that EPO and HGH don't work as well as some athletes think, doesn't mean that athletes aren't using them because they BELIEVE they work that well

So athletes do use IVs for rehydration, regardless of how well it may actually work

 

[Mahkor]

He was donating his A level genetics blood to kids born with low natural testosterone.

St. Costa bless.

 

[LockardTheGOAT]

Blackmailing someone isn't the same as framing him

How would be able to blackmail him if he did nothing wrong? What's his explanation for being caught on camera injecting an IV into his system?

 

[Etherized]

Just a jacked natty, açaí fed brown boy

Deal with it haters

 

[deadon]

You mean sherdog was wrong about jon Jones being a rat?

 

[Mammothman]

LOL

It's all the trainers fault.

Costa is starting to sound like Juicehead with all the BS.

Juicehead always cracks me up

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[DatSamboKid]

It's funny how Costa seems like this justifies the fact that he was doing something totally illegal lol.

 

[dim_]

When did he have the video? The video has been posted on the internet since last year. Unless he's the first to post it, he just used what someone else had already uploaded.

usada had it august 2018

the first time it was posted on the internet was october 2018

yoel posted it after BUT, his was not a rip from the youtube video which was reformatted in landscape, it was the original portrait video. (And i doubt Yoel went to the trouble of editing the youtube video to remove the portrait letterbox etc)

 

[Chok Sok Te]

If you call him a ped cheat out loud 3 times in a row, he magically appears and erases you

 

[linch]

Didn't costa get some sentence reduction because he snitched?

 

[Alpha_T83]

LOL

It's all the trainers fault.

Costa is starting to sound like Juicehead with all the BS.

Exactly. Fucking clown blaming his trainer instead of taking responsibility for cheating intentionally and trying to hide it.

 

[Alpha_T83]

IVs are great for rehydration.

Ivs are prohibited because they CAN be used to mask the use of prohibited substances.

You should get your facts right as well.

Doesnt matter. They are against the rules. His opponent wasn't allowed to use IV rehydration so he got an unfair advantage, even if he didn't use PEDs (which I suspect he did).

 

[Alpha_T83]

IV is for rehydration, nothing to do with PEDs. May 2019 join date. Checks out

IV rehydration is illegal. Period. His opponent wasn't allowed to use IV rehydration, so he cheated and gained an unfair advantage.

 

[vengeful]

usada had it august 2018

the first time it was posted on the internet was october 2018

yoel posted it after BUT, his was not a rip from the youtube video which was reformatted in landscape, it was the original portrait video. (And i doubt Yoel went to the trouble of editing the youtube video to remove the portrait letterbox etc)

This is the video that was originally posted. You can even see the twitter guy that first posted it at the end....if Yoel had access to the original video it wouldn't have been sourced from someone's twitter.


https://middleeasy.com/mma-news/video-paulo-costa-iv-fight-johny-hendricks/

 

[acannxr]

You dont know how these things work internally.

You are 100% assuming they had to find something ASAP to fulfill some kind of deal

It's the complete opposite, actually.

The fact that Jones was able to delay the USADA process for over a year and only worked out a deal not long before the video surfaced is why @-Dim- 's theory makes sense.

 

[MFIC]

Translation: “ that trainer needs to go because we can’t let him see us sticking needles in our ass”

 

[aali14]

Chose not to comment about why he was using the IV in the first place I see

 

[cauti0n]

Soldier of God please derail this guy.

 

[Timurd123]

So his trainer is PRO Rules/ANTI PEDs.....and the trainer is the bad guy?


Unnatty guy is mad cuz his "secret" is out...Is normal

Lol what ? How the fuck did you infer that from what he said ?

The trainer doesn’t give a fuck about the rules, he wanted to extort him

So if he paid him he would’ve been 100% fine with him cheating

You alright ?