Well 30 days is a good start.Like I said, 2 weeks, maybe 3 weeks before the fight, maybe a month. I just find more than that hard to manage,
Except the advantages of beating a blood test are quite high. Being over a permissable weight limit doesn't help you with anything.My point is if people can get away with beating blood tests, they can beat a scale by video call. That's all.
I think that is a silly argument based out of ignorance, no offense. Just because you take more of something doesn't mean it's going to make you better. If a fighter wants to double the dosage of his PEDs, it doesn't mean this is actually going to help him.Of course. At same time you know more about this stuff than I do since you're in the health and wellness field. So don't consider my objection as me discrediting you. Simply put without going into technical details that I don't know:
If they currently allow X of something in your system, some fighters will try to push to something higher.
If they unban PEDs I'm sure fighters won't be responsible.
If they limit PEDs to a higher threshold, I'm sure fighters will still push for something higher.
It's really a *****. Best way is to remove entire thing.
Take alcohol as an example, you have a few drinks in, you're the happy pleasant social tipsy still in control guy, keep drinking, you don't get happier and more pleasant do you? No. You perhaps start becoming belligerent, or speech impaired, have difficulty standing straight, and sometimes even just staying awake.
So no, if they allow "X" dosage in your system, going to ''X+'' doesn't mean anything.
As I said, this is mostly based off ignorance and misinformation of PEDs.
I get that argument, but I disagree with it.The problem with PEDs is much less about hurting your own body and more so about hurting other people.
This isn't tennis. This is a sport where people punch and knee each other in the face. Letting people be above regular human conditions is a sure fire way to cause additional long term brain damage to other fighters.
First off, you are assuming that whoever isn't caught is clean. Now I get it, innocent until proven guilty, but too many of them get popped for this saying to apply. Krzysztof Soszynski back in 2011 said he believes at least 85% of fighters are on PEDs. I know a fighter who had a few fights in the UFC who told me pretty much the same.
Second, the idea that two fighters are on the same playing field simply because they are "clean" is completely fictional. We aren't all born with the same testosterone levels, we don't recover the same way, limb sizes are different, etc.
If my reach is bigger, well, that's a pretty big advantage. Why is that legal? Because it's natural? So? It's still a big ass advantage.
So you can't take a drug SPECIFICALLY made to enhance performance and improve you, make you better, in a sport where we are seeking the absolute best performances, but it's cool to let one guy fight someone that has naturally higher testosterone and a bigger reach?
Ya. That really doesn't add up to me.
I get your point, but disagree with it.
I am not talking about testing all the roster. I am talking about whoever is set to be on the card. Once it is confirmed, then you are subject to a possible random test.Random weigh ins wouldn't make sense. Nate Diaz for example hasn't fought in years but is still on payroll and in testing. If he does random weigh ins he could easily lose. He's not even competing though...
It's easy enough that it can be made.A system can be made, I never disputed that. I'm disputing how easy you made it out to be.
Again, you said stuff like "just do this, simple" "do that, simple". My point is it is not simple at all. It seems that way but there's other considerations. Surely, they can find something better than the current landscape easily but I never understood the oversimplification. It will take a lot of planning and logistics.
I also think that what stops a guy from weight cutting if he knows he's going to be weighed X days before a fight, know what I mean?