Boxing is a sport. Football is a sport. Fighting is not a sport.

Boxing is a sport. Football is a sport. Hockey is a sport. Fighting is not a sport. I do not classify fighting as a competition. It is in essence, a breaking of the rules. I do realize that there are forces striving to convince you that it is alright to fight. It is a very self destructive lifestyle and it is not alright. It effects us all as a society. Fighting is what you do when you lack the ability to communicate a solution to a problem. And, left unchecked, it soon will be an International Monopoly so huge and so powerful that it will outreach any type of controls.

I could be concentrating more about the presidential election coming up, or the war we are in, but, I don't. I focus daily on myself as a Martial Artist and making the wonderful people in my circle better.

It has been proven that the fighters from the 90's who depended on steroid use later proved to be lesser fighters in y2k, Ken Shamrock, Mark Coleman, Kerr, etc...These and the like usually also ended up using other more powerful and destructive drugs that only compounded to the amount of damage physically and psychologically they received fighting.

Steroids have not been proven to enhance sports performance, but they are phsycogenic, which means they effect the users state of mind.

Steroids are effective in the rehabilitation of injuries like using creating would be. By nitrogen retention they just create an overall body durability, which compensates for the injury while it revolvers and repairs. Protein synthesis, vitamins, minerals and nutrients are what make you an athlete. Not the drug.

There are users and abuses of every drug. Food is a drug, believe it or not. It effects your emotions and feelings. Do Athletes use steroids? Well, in my experience there are two types of users. The Baroni's who will tell you all about it, and the ---------- ----------- that will deny it, and actually speak out the loudest in opposition to it. Do I believe an athlete should use a steroid? Well, at the level the UFC is at now, and the amount of money that is at stake, I believe they should do everything they can to prepare themselves to be 100% to fight.

 As a fighter in my prime, I would have no problem fighting a fighter on steroids. As a matter of fact, I would purposely fight those guys because they usually lacked the technical skills. Have I ever used steroids? Yep. For a very finite period of time. Do I recommend them to anyone? Nope. I do not consider steroids as cheating, because like I just discussed they don't make you a fighter, martial artist or a man. That's up to you. But Blood Doping! Now that's a fuckin' cheater move. And you know who you are.