Josh Barnett 'had no reason to believe there would be any issues' with pre-fight drug test

I don’t think Sherk roided either; but this in light of his testing positive after the Randy fight definatley makes me think he’s guilty. I’ll wait till the results on the 2nd test to come back, but it’s not lookin good at all.

Yeah, I feel sorry for Sherk. It seems like there’s too much trust put into these Athletic Commissions. Who’s watching the watchdogs? if you catch my drift.

They seem to be a totally bureaucratic body governed by protocol without an ounce of commonsense. Even with matters such as fighters appealing for No Contests like Anthony Johnson. His case was perfectly reasonable. Why let them appeal at all?

I admit, I don’t know much about it and am probably too critical, but they seem to dick everybody around more than they should. It’s bullshit!

LIAR!

hey now fellas’ lets not get it twisted!

sherk is definitely a steroid muncher.

and so is josh the “maybe laced assassin” barnett..

it seems like he hits the juice for the tough fights.

fedor would have killed him anyways~

bring on grim. i hope that dood takes the fight!~

at this stage of the game if you take steroids you are an idiot not a cheater, I don’t think sherk was on roids neither is barnett.

He just looks like he lying in that picture. Smug mother fu*ker… Go back to Japan and wrestle. Biggest and most obvious case of cheating/ducking an opponet I have ever seen.

Andrew, Page 1 of the What To Do After A Positive Steroid Test Handbook is DENY EVERYTHING. Look at guys like Roger Clemens (facing federal charges) Sammy Sosa (forgot how to speak English) Mark McGwire (fell off the face of the Earth), Barry Bonds (letting his buddy rot in prison to avoid testifying), Marion Jones (served 6 months in prison), etc.

Nobody gets caught and then says, ‘yeah, I did it, I tried to gain an illegal advantage and got caught.’ It’s always ‘tainted supplement’ or ‘B-12 shot’ or ‘flaxseed oil’ or some other unbelievable bullshit. Barnett has cheated before and been caught, and he cheated again this time and got caught again. He’ll deny it, just like Sherk did and every other dirty cheating cheater will, but I promise they are ALL guilty.

I agree 100% PW. No body says “I’m a cheater” or “I got to where I am cause I cheated”. It’s sad….

Chris Leben did, so did Hermes Franca

I think the fighters have experts come in and talk to them about exactly what drugs are detectable and which are not. I’m sure they go through how the tests work and what you can get away with as far as timelines with which substances. Then some guys skirt the tests and everything is fine until one athletic commission has slightly better equipment or some variance in their procedures. I believe that Barnett didn’t think he would test positive, but I don’t believe he’s steroid-free. Hell, he’s not even claiming innocence in this quote.

That is why those 2 will get my respect back. Admit you are wrong and move forward. Cheating, hiding behind lies, and ducking opponets will never get my respect again.

O damn, true and true.

Andrew – the fact that Dana said he just sprinted out of the arena and “went for a run in his fight shorts” after he lost to Edgar also makes me question his mindframe a bit haha.

PW-
Isnt page 2 of that book admitting fault? cause even though clemens, sosa, mcgwire, bonds, and jones all denied till they were blue in the face, im fairly sure that they all came out and admitted to it a few months later. heavy on the fairly, cause watching baseball or anything to do with the sport makes my eyes bleed. to this day, sherk is pretty damn adamant that he is innocent. i sound like a sherk hugger but im really not, i kinda just feel like he got screwed by the CSAC cause after he passed all the polygraphs (3 of them) and offered a blood sample which is more accurate than urine, the CSAC just ignored him and simply reduced his suspension instead of lifting it. friendly debate here buddy, lets not get hostile!

lol agreed.

I know. I can’t figure out why they would do it? WHY? Why risk it? Why taint your victories? Vitor has done it, Royce Gracie, Stephan Bonnar — are these, in your opinions spot on, almost positively certain? Correctomundo?

Even with Leben, Franca and Bonnar (you forgot Bonnar), it was just trying to recover from a training injury faster so they could fight and not disappoint the fans. Even though they admitted to using, they’re still shifting blame away from themselves.

BNF-

Agreed. Sincere apologies will always earn respect.

That’s why if Borck would have sincerely apologized for acting like a goon then he would not have gotten criticized as much as he did.

I was hating on him for this….. until i looked at a bottle of my supplements today. I recently bought Havok, an over the counter supplement. I have been taking it for a little less than a month now and it has been working rather well. On the back it read 2a-methyl-5a-androstan-3a-ol-17-one, I was shocked!

Well even if they sincerely apologize, right is right and wrong is wrong and steroid use is wrong, imo if it is proven without a doubt that they used steroids, it makes me question there whole career. Here is to hoping thaat GSP or Albert Pujols never test positive for steroids!!

Psyqo78 – you dirty doper!! lol jk buddy

I’ll save my hostility for the cheaters, Andrew. But no, Clemens still insists he didn’t roid and points to his lack of a third ear as evidence. Bonds hasn’t admitted anything. Marion Jones denied everything until there was so much evidence and first-hand witnesses piled up against her that she had no choice.

No athlete in any sport will ever just come out and say ‘I used every available option I had to improve my performance, including illegal steroids. I used them deliberately and knowingly, and I shouldn’t have. I will serve my suspension, and when I come back I will compete clean and try to win back your respect.’

Not Brock again… I am on the side that was laughing during his post fight antics. Just like when Nate triangled Pelligrino, or Cole talked sh*t to Junie, or Babalu squeezed a little too long, or BJ squeezed Jens, or Cantwell. I could go on and on. These dudes are all nuts and very emotional in the cage. I tend to give them the benefit of the doubt. Brock is a douche, but what can you do. At least he won fair and square.

It’s a pro-hormone then Psyqo. It’s a precursor to testosterone meaning it’s available if you body chooses to use it. At least that was how it was years ago when I worked at GNC in college. I wonder if these are off limits to the fighters?

BNF-

Just to be fair. Those other guys acted like d-bags, too.

Andro and Nor-Andro got to be off limits to fighters,Punch!We weren’t allowed to consumed some in the NCAA,so I presume it’s the same!

Agree COMPLETELY with PW. He is right, anyone who disagrees is naive to the fact that as Sherdog put it, there is no smoke without fire.

It is easy to get away with juicing, I am in a profession where we get drug tested (you do the maths) and there are a million ways to disguise roids.

Barnett messed up his covering agent or took too much juice or whatever but he was on roids.

There is too much money riding on this and other sports for there to be a chance of mistakes. Sherk and Barnett both are/were on it.

Bleh, I’ve debated Sherks case over and over and over again; and the amount he tested for, and the questionable handling of his sample by the CSAC, as reflected by their own damn logs suggests he had a false positive. AND why in the hell did they even bother giving him a reduced sentence if they were 100% sure he was guilty?? Why even bother dropping his suspension to 6 mnths if they were sure beyond a doubt that their test was dead on.

The “maybe laced” assassin… ROFL good one sticky!!

So glad they did a pre-fight test. Imagine if this cheating f@ck had beaten Fedor and THEN this came out…

If you read between the lines of his statement, it’s not a very compelling profession of innocence. He never actually denies taking steroids, he just says he ’didn’t think there’d be a problem’, and says he wants to ‘gather as much info as possible’.

False positive tests for anabolic steroids are vey rare, and I think his statement is more damning than if he had said nothing at all. I’’ll give him his chance to explain himself, but if I were in his position and I knew I was innocent, I’d have stronger words than that for the commision and the media.

no they arent jj all it takes is lab contamination and the people working in athletic commisions labs are not usually fully qualified. so lab contamination is very common

Contamination is common – a specific steroid appearing in a blood sample of a fighter who hasn’t taken them is not.

^ Or a piss sample.

Drip drip drip, drop drop drop

If “false positives” are something that could actually happen fairly routinely, as those who have been busted claim, there is NO WAY any of the major sports OR MMA would allow for testing in their respective collective bargaining agreements. The potential for winnable lawsuits would be enormous. I’m sorry, but that argument or excuse is still under the category of “the dog ate my homework”. It doesn’t fly.

Actually false positives are common occurance. I work in a correctional facility and conduct Urine Analysis tests all the time. You’d be surprised what kind of OTC medications and etc. will cause a false positive. In the event of a positive result we send the urine off to a lab to confirm. Which is what I was commenting would come next for Barnett. I then went back and read the post again and realized they have already done this and the test has been confirmed by the lab. I tried to correct my comment right away but am being moderated for some reason.

Thanks Wayne. I made the assumption a solid confirmation would be made prior to suspending Barnett from fighting. As it turns out, that appears to be the case. It still seems the door would be wide open for major lawsuits from fighters or any athlete if test results that incriminate them were not ironclad prior to action being taken that profoundly affects their livelihoods. I know I would sue if I were falsely accused, but I’m not aware in any sport where that scenario has played out.

Husband caught cheating with woman in his own bed:

Wife: “Who is that?”

Man: “Who?”

Wife: “that woman in your bed”

Man: “What woman?”

DENY TO THE END Barnett

oj my brother, what up!

101?~ for sure!

answer = no

it came right up~

LMAO!!

lol nice stinky!

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Yeah, a stupid comment actually.