The main event of UFC 232 — rangy, skilled striker Alexander Gustafsson versus returning light heavyweight great Jon “Bones” Jones — was supposed to be an incredible rematch from UFC 165, when Jones escaped with a narrow victory. But before either of them could climb back inside the octagon, the bout was more or less derailed by a drug test turning up trace amounts of the steroid turinabol in Jones’ bloodstream, forcing the UFC to quickly relocate the fight to California from Nevada after that state’s athletic commission reported that it lacked sufficient time to investigate the results.
Jones, who has failed drug tests before, drew predictable jeers from rivals like Daniel Cormier, whose second and much more conclusive loss to Jones was changed to a “no contest” after “Bones” tested positive for turinabol. “I mean, shit, he should [have defeated Gustafsson]! Dude starts with a head start every time,” Cormier tweeted. “A pinch of turinabol in an Olympic-sized pool from 2017 that stays in your system for eighteen months … that’s a joke.”
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But the USADA — the nonprofit drug-testing agency established by the U.S. Olympic Committee and funded by the U.S. government that also serves as the UFC’s official testing body — chalked up the appearance of turinabol metabolites in Jones’s system to an alleged “pulsing effect” related to usage of the drug many months earlier. “All of the experts [we consulted] determined it was not a reingestion of the substance, but rather a very, very small amount that was occurring and still showing up but that did not provide any performance-enhancing benefit,” explained UFC Vice President of Athlete Health and Performance Jeff Novitzky, who then never bothered to explain the scientific basis for this conclusion.
Chad Macias, who serves as director of research at the Institute for Human Kinetics and helped prepare Gustafsson for his fight against Jones, pulled no punches when I ask him about this turn of events. (He will also be speaking to the Nevada Athletic Commission later this month in order to formally lodge his objections and possibly get Jones sanctioned.)
“If we let this one go without questioning USADA’s underlying evidence for their decision to allow Jones to fight, we will provide a way of institutionally protecting people who have failed drug tests and will continue to fail them,” Macias explains. “The existing scientific literature is quite clear that there’s a short detection window for the metabolite in question. Plenty of athletes have been using oral turinabol, precisely because it clears the system quickly, and because they could use USADA’s ‘pulsing’ theory to justify these periodic reappearances. And since USADA doesn’t maintain ‘biological passports’ for the athletes they test, the way the World Anti-Doping Agency does, you can’t even verify these minor variations in their blood tests over extended periods of time.”
In other words, drug testing in the UFC and possibly other sports federations could be rendered totally ineffectual due to a reliance on whatever undisclosed research has led USADA’s decision-makers to approve this “pulsing” theory.
“USADA isn’t subject to the Freedom of Information Act and has no obligation to observe due process as we would see in a criminal case,” says steroid expert and fitness journalist Anthony Roberts. “And their CEO, a lawyer, has written law-review articles gleefully noting how it’s good for USADA that they don’t have to answer to anyone. For them, doping is a strict liability offense. If the drug is in your body, and the test was valid, you’re guilty. The standard of proof is ‘comfortable satisfaction,’ not ‘beyond a reasonable doubt.’ And now they’re further confusing matters by claiming the power to determine which of their positive tests are actually invalid.”
Combine a testing development like that with a sport like MMA, which has a long history of performance enhancement, and you’ve got a recipe for disaster. During its glory days, MMA athletes were untested, and freakish performers such as Vitor Belfort and Ken Shamrock sported super-sized, obviously enhanced physiques. Later, after the introduction of various state athletic commission-supervised drug testing programs, some fighters availed themselves of testosterone-replacement therapy (TRT) exemptions related to their alleged impotence and declining virility. That is, until the Nevada Athletic Commission banned TRT in 2014.
“Even before it got connected with USADA, the UFC was a mess,” says Macias. “I was working in 2014 with Phil Davis, who is about as freakishly talented as a naturally elite athlete can get, and he fought Brazilian Glover Teixeira at UFC 179 in Rio de Janeiro. Phil beat Glover in a good match, getting the decision, and then we got the drug testing results and you could see what a clown show this was. When we got our copy of the drug test, it was on a sheet of paper with ink smears and an uncentered header. For the first three fighters in the main event, the sheet read ‘no metabolite detected’ whereas Phil’s line simply read ‘tested negative’ — the verbiage was different for him for no apparent reason. This led me to believe they just threw the document together in a hurry and may not have even run any tests at all.
“More largely what it told us is that the UFC was claiming its local representatives did advanced drug testing, but they left this up to the Brazilian sports commission — and their scientists either screwed up the results or simply fabricated them. Phil left the UFC shortly after that and went to work for Bellator, which honestly isn’t any better in terms of drug testing but does give the athletes much more freedom in terms of wearing endorsements on ring attire and other promotional matters.”
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In Macias’ opinion, Brazil — a country that’s produced many UFC champions — has long been a haven for performance-enhancing drug users. “In the early days of the sport, the Brazilians dominated, and this was supposedly because of their superior jiu-jitsu, but it was really because they were all doping and doping knowledge was widespread among fighters who trained in the various schools there. Now, if you listened to the recent Joe Rogan podcast with fighter Donald Cerrone, you’d learn that Jon Jones’ training center, Jackson Wink MMA, is a place where up-to-date steroid advice has been traded freely. Ex-fighter Brendan Schaub made the same accusations a few years earlier.”
Some fighters suspect that Jones returned to the sport after his third drug suspension only because he agreed to “narc” on training-camp associates, and Jackson Wink’s fighters have received a staggering number of USADA violations in recent years. But in Roberts’ informed opinion, doping at a high level and dodging USADA scrutiny is hardly a difficult task. “For an MMA fighter, a good steroid program wouldn’t be super-expensive,” he says. “The main problem would be obtaining pharmaceutical-grade products, without which the chance of cross-contamination is nearly 100 percent.
“Underground labs don’t have the sterilization procedures in place to not have each batch of drugs contaminated with sub-physiological but easily detectable amounts of other stuff. So a fighter thinks he’s using testosterone dosed low enough to avoid detection, but the glassware was used to brew another steroid and he ends up testing positive for that. I’d bet that half the guys who test positive for a drug that’s notoriously long-lasting are actually victims of cross-contamination.”
And there’s no shortage of designer drugs to supplement conventional steroids. “We’re talking mechano growth factor, insulin-like growth factor, testosterone and epitestosterone mixes [like the famous BALCO ‘cream,’ which increases testosterone while keeping the testosterone-to-epitestosterone ratio within normal limits and thus prevent failed drug tests], growth hormone and xenon gas,” Roberts tells me. “Seriously, xenon gas. It’s hard to procure, because you need to purchase a huge canister. You inhale it and it increases your cardiovascular fitness, but it’s still undetectable.”
Even Macias’ Institute for Human Kinetics sells a host of performance-enhancing procedures, albeit ones that are legal in nearly all major sports federations. He lists a few of them directly for me, “Platelet-rich plasma injections, stem cell treatments, cryotherapy, ultraviolet light treatment, acupuncture. We help our clients by using all of these treatment modalities. The difference between these therapies and a steroid regimen is pretty clear: The treatments we provide are more expensive and work slower; the intention is to help clean athletes at least get back to their full potential in order to compete with dirty athletes who will fail drug tests.
“By contrast, steroids are a kind of no-brainer, albeit a no-brainer that can raise your cholesterol, raise the risk of heart disease and have other negative effects. Steroids can turn a Joe Average into something close to elite in a relatively short amount of time. The danger and the reward are both considerable. What I’m providing is reward without the danger to athletes like Usain Bolt, who have worked with me when they were recovering from injuries because this was a safer route — a route that will have better, more sustainable results over the long haul.”
So why, I press Macias, should any of us care that Gustafsson’s expensive but legal treatments were seemingly no match for Jones’ steroid-enhanced strength and stamina? “Because at the end of the day, the UFC claims it has a set of rules related to drug use, and it seems like we’re carving out a special exception to those rules for a top star like Jon Jones. He’s fighting another elite competitor in Gustafsson, but it isn’t anything close to a fair fight. In fact, it’s a waste of time and only interesting to fans if Gustafsson won in spite of that.
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“Imagine if baseball carved out a special exemption related to impotence or infertility so that Alex Rodriguez and Manny Ramirez could’ve kept hitting home runs, but denied that exemption to every other player. We can argue about what should and shouldn’t be legal, but while rules are in place, everyone ought to be held to them. Otherwise, why not just race, say, Usain Bolt against a cheetah, or a race car?”
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How RoidStore.com, Steroid.com & Anthony Roberts Raped George Spellwin, the EliteFitness Site & Our Members
Monday, April 14, 2008
Dear friend and fellow athlete,
Regrettably, this week?s EliteFitness.com News tells how Anthony Roberts, a former friend and business associate, and his colleague Brian Clapp, raped me, the EliteFitness.com site, and our members - almost bringing us to our knees in the most hateful display of arrogance and backstabbing our community has witnessed since EliteFitness.com went live in 1996. Today, you'll learn the facts of how Anthony Roberts, his partner Brian Clapp, and their sites Steroid.com, RoidStore.com, and BuySteroids.com, have tried relentlessly to seize control of EliteFitness.com and ultimately try to gain control of the community that you, our members, have worked so hard to create. And you'll learn how our community got sued when we discovered that while their Steroid.com site pretends to support and educate bodybuilders, it actually exists to cheat its members into buying the fake steroids that they sell at their sister site, the RoidStore.com.
You need to hear about this terrible state of affairs because you should understand the gravity of the situation for our community of members. After all, EliteFitness.com represents the largest archive of bodybuilding and anabolic steroid information that has ever been assembled, and I will not allow this enormous knowledge base that you helped me amass since EF?s founding in 1996 to be lost. These are the facts about how Anthony Roberts, a friend and colleague of mine, and his partner Brian Clapp, with their sites Steroid.com and RoidStore.com plotted to take control of EliteFitness.com by filing a frivolous lawsuit in Texas and by flooding our Internet Service Providers (ISPs) with notices demanding that our entire web-site be taken offline. And regrettably, this is a lesson in how my stubborn loyalty to someone I liked and trusted almost destroyed my website and me in the process.
Everything started with a talented entrepreneur who went by the name of Jeff Summers and was owner of a company called Impact Nutrition. Jeff was the inspiration and mentor of Steroid.com and RoidStore.com. For years, unscrupulous supplement companies have used deception (I call it ?trick supplements?) that attempts to fool you into thinking that you are buying anabolic steroids when instead, you are being sold nothing of the sort. Novice bodybuilders pay dearly for stuff that would never be considered anabolic or muscle building. This has gone on for decades, but not until the Internet and Jeff Summers came along was anyone as successful at deceiving guys into thinking they were buying anabolic steroids when they definitely were not.
Jeff Summers and his company Impact Nutrition perfected fraudulent supplements as steroids marketing. Jeff Summers of course was not the founder of Impact Nutrition?s real name. In this business, many people participate on discussion forums or write articles using a pseudonym. Jeff Summer?s real name was Bart Harcourt. Those of you who have been around EliteFitness.com for any time at all know that we would never reveal the identity of anyone who chooses to use a pseudonym. Anthony Roberts is not a real name, nor is Anthony?s other pseudonym ?Hooker.? But we would never tell you Anthony?s real name no matter what this guy does to me because you need to know that without your trust, EliteFitness.com would be nothing. When you do business with EF and even when people try to screw us, our iron clad policy assures you that your personal information will never be sold, misused or mishandled. Anthony Roberts does not afford others the same level of professionalism as some have found out the hard way. Divulge any of your personal information on his sites at your own risk.
Enough digression, the reason I have no qualms letting you know that Jeff Summers was an alias for Bart Harcourt is because Bart is dead. At the height of Impact Nutrition?s rise, Bart was bringing in about $1 million a month from the sale of fake steroids. Bart lived in a mansion, drove a Lamborghini, and partied like a rock-star. But, Bart, like so many other successful entrepreneurial athletes, self-destructed. As is so often the case, injectable anabolic steroid use leads some athletes to the injectable opiate based pharmaceutical Nubain, which athletes prize for its pain and cortisol suppressing properties. Nubain also frequently leads athletes to other opiate based narcotics and in Bart?s case, he became addicted to heroin. Sadly, Bart died of a heroin overdose about a year ago.
Anthony Roberts idolizes his partner Brian Clapp and Brian Clapp idolized his friend Bart Harcourt. So when Bart died, and there was a void to be filled in the bogus steroid market, Brian took everything he had learned from Bart and formed the site RoidStore.com, designed to pimp fake steroids at a level no one had seen before. He also registered BuySteroids.com and other domain names which are other fronts for his RoidStore.com site. In order to find customers, he copied the EliteFitness.com ideas for an anabolic steroid discussion forum community and he partnered with Anthony Roberts - a guy who was only thirteen when EF went live - to write steroid related articles.
Running EliteFitness.com is expensive and we earn the money needed to keep such a large operation going in three ways: through advertising, downloadable e-books, and from your support when you become a Platinum Member. Many EliteFitness.com clones stay online by dealing steroids and they use their forums to generate prospective customers that they can then sell drugs to. The idea behind Brian and Anthony?s Steroid.com site is actually quite ingenious. Steroid.com pretends to support and educate the bodybuilding community, but at the same time it really exists to cheat its members into buying the fake steroids that they sell at their sister site, the RoidStore.com. So although they are not exactly dealing drugs, by dancing around some of the Federal Trade Commission?s rules about truth in advertising, they can make a fortune by selling stuff that pretends to be anabolic steroids but isn?t. Now Brian is the one raking in the cash, living in a mansion, and now he?s the one driving the Lamborghini perhaps even the same one that was once owned by his mentor Bart.
You have to give Brian and Anthony credit, it?s a great idea really; use your Steroid.com EF clone site to sell fake steroids in your very own RoidStore. But their idea has one major problem. You see, most businesses are successful because of repeat customers; however, you can imagine that after you buy something from the RoidStore only to discover that it is not an anabolic steroid, you?re not going to go back and get ripped off again. And so, in order for Brian and Anthony to keep Steroid.com going and to keep gas in the tank of that Lambo, they have to continually find new suckers to buy the fake steroids they sell at their RoidStore.
Here?s how it works:
RoidStore.com sells an oral supplement called ?Deca 200? which is a name that sounds an awful lot like pharmaceutical giant Organon?s injectable prescription drug nandrolone decanoate that Organon markets under the brand name Deca-Durabolin. RoidStore claims that ?Deca 200? contains a nutritional supplement blend with a name Brian made up called ?Nandeconate?, which is definitely not the drug made by Organon.
RoidStore sells another oral supplement called ?D-Anabol 25? and they say it contains a nutritional supplement blend with the made up name ?Metandesenolone?. Isn?t that curious? ?D-Anabol 25? made from ?Metandesenolone? sounds an awful lot like the real brand name drug Dianabol produced by pharmaceutical giant Ciba containing the real pharmaceutical methandrostenolone.
RoidStore?s ?Tren 75? contains a nutritional supplement blend with a cool sounding fabricated name ?Finabolan?, but it does not contain a bit of the real drug trenbolone acetate, which you will find in pharmaceutical giant Hoechst-Roussel?s brand name drug Finaplix.
RoidStore sells something they call ?Var 10? which they say contains a nutritional supplement blend with the name they made up of ?Oxantrione?. But guess what? ?Var 10? doesn?t contain any of the real drug called oxandrolone put out by pharmaceutical giant Searle that Searle sells under the brand name Anavar.
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RoidStore sells another oral supplement called ?Winn 50? which is a name that sounds an awful lot like pharmaceutical giant Upjohn?s prescription drug Winstrol, which is Upjohn?s brand name for the generic pharmaceutical stanozolol. RoidStore claims that ?Winn 50? contains a nutritional supplement blend called ?Vanazolol?, which is definitely not the same thing as stanozolol (Winstrol).
Guess who owns the trademarks for D-Anabol 25, Deca 200, Winn 50, Tren 75, Var 10, Nandeconate, Vanazolol, Metandesenolone, and Finabolan? Think it?s Organon, Ciba, Hoechst-Roussel, Searle and Upjohn? Nope, you would be wrong. These trademarks although they sound a lot like the real thing are all owned by Brian Clapp?s company Anabolic Research, LLC.
I wanted you to know what was really in some of RoidStore?s supplements, so I got my hands on a bottle of ?Winn 50.? When you get the bottle you find out that ?Vanazolol? is actually a proprietary blend of DHEA, taraxacum officinale, (better known as dandelion - yes, the flower) as well as iron, vitamin b12, caffeine, and vanadyl sulphate. All at a retail price of only $95 per bottle! Yes, for a hundred bucks, you could take a pill that wouldn?t help you much more than a multi-vitamin, a salad and a cup of coffee.
So how in the world you may wonder did I get mixed up with Brian Clapp and Anthony Roberts?
In 2006, Anthony approached us about writing an e-book about the new use of peptides and insulin growth factors in bodybuilding and we said that we would read it and sell it for him if he wrote one. We also designed a personal consultation program for Anthony that would enable him to sell hourly consultations to the EliteFitness.com members. The result was a collaboration between my staff and Anthony called ?Beyond Steroids? and as steroid books go, this one is really pretty good. The book and the consultations sold reasonably well, we got to know Anthony better and trusted him and we even made him a Chairman Member on our forums.
We had worked with Anthony, promoting him and his book for a long time, when he introduced us to his partner Brian and said that Brian wanted to advertise on EliteFitness.com. Having no idea at the time about the connection between Steroid.com and RoidStore.com, we signed an agreement to run Brian?s advertising on the EliteFitness.com site thinking we would be promoting Brian and Anthony?s Steroid.com discussion forums. But we got screwed big time. We had an agreement with them obligating us to run their ads, only to discover that we were not going to be running Steroid.com ads at all. Instead, they forced us to run banners advertising their RoidStore because the guys on Brian and Anthony?s Steroid.com site weren?t buying their garbage any more. I got suckered just like their customers, but my hands were tied. Because we had a signed contract, they forced me to let them run their banners, although throughout, I never censored what our members had to say about their products and you can read our members' thoughts in these discussion forum posts.