UFC bantamweight champion Aljamain Sterling believes that fighters caught doping should be sent to prison.
“The whole USADA thing is a joke,” Sterling said on The MMA Hour. – Do you know, for example, that TJ was caught not by USADA, but by the New York State Athletic Commission? That is, USADA was generally out of business. What are we paying them for? They position themselves as a third party: “We have nothing to do with it.”
In general, MMA has historically been a steroid sport. In this sport, it has always been customary to be proud that you are on something. Remember Sean Sherk, all those Belforts… We look at them and understand everything. And you want to say that now the fighters are clean? Do not make me laugh. Remember when Cody Garbrandt said in a press conference that Dillashaw was showing everyone at Team Alpha Male how to use steroids? USADA had to think, to investigate. But what did they do? Nothing.
And if you take all these fighters from small countries, I’m not sure that they are being tested by USADA in the same way that we are. I’m not saying that Russia is a small country, but they have sports there – this is a huge phenomenon. When someone wins the Olympics there, they are greeted like God. We, in the USA, are spoiled, here athletes are not perceived that way. And do you think that in these countries they are really tested? Even here, TJ was caught after how many years! Even I knew he was a chemist from the beginning of his UFC career. I think you should go to jail for steroids and EPO. This is a contact sport, we don’t throw the ball into the basket, you can break a person’s life and career here.”
Sterling will face Petr Yan on April 9 at UFC 273.
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