Since advanced drug-testing through USADA was implemented in the UFC things sure aren’t as fun. Without advanced injury recovery “aides” fights are cancelled far more frequently, and legendary fighters just don’t have the gas (so to speak) to be competitive late in their careers.
While we will never know how many fighters were using PEDs during the company’s first 20+ years of existence, there do appear to have been many fighters negatively impacted by the new regulations. Some fighters however, have been impacted far more than others.
It isn’t only the jacked fighters or those who look as though they have more muscle than their body can support that were juicing however. Even fighters who do not appear suspicious to the naked eye have “pissed hot” since the advent of USADA. It’s always more fun however, to point the finger at those whose size has decreased. This article puts the focus on four fighters who have all decreased in size since USADA.
Johny Hendricks
Johny Hendricks is an easy target on this subject. Leading up to his welterweight title shot against Georges St. Pierre, Hendricks agreed to a series of advanced drug tests which would be paid for by GSP. When it came time to live up to his word on that however, Hendricks was nowhere to be found. His decision had a lot to do with GSP leaving the sport for 3 years after their bout.
Since USADA testing came into play “Big Rig” no longer looks like the high-caliber athlete he once did. His career hasn’t exactly been on an upward trajectory either. Hendricks went 0W-3L in 2016, and missed weight for his final two bouts in the year.
2017 has been a little kinder to Hendricks however, as he defeated 39-year old Hector Lombard in February.
he also moved up a weight class because making weight was too difficult.
I think this one is flawed. You used a weight cut photo where he had no water weight and compared it to a fight night photo where he is re-hydrated. He also move up a weight class, not something juicers typically do anfer getting off the juice(look how thin The Reem has gotten, he will be a 205er again before we know it).
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