Rudy Valentino Accuses Georges St. Pierre of Steroid Use

lhasafi — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 20:59:34 -0000

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BJ Penn's trainer Rudy Valentino was a guest on SI's Gross Pointe Blank podcast and basically accused GSP of steroid use around the time of GSP/Penn II. This is what he had to say when discussing Penn possibly moving up:

"I think it's because of his so-called steroid use, and all of that, that B.J. felt it was an unfair fight. Just the whole thing about not being fair, and fighting fair, you know. That's what B.J. wants to get off of his back; The greasing stuff, the steroids, and all of that".

"We heard from certain people that used to train with him, telling us what he did in the past. That's why, we had a heads up on that. When you cycle steroids, you're not going to test positive. You can cycle it right up to the time of the fight and not test positive on that. That's what we suspected he did in this fight".

HT: sportsillustrated.cnn.com

Macklin TKOs Asikainen in RD1

lhasafi — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 07:16:56 -0000

Matthem "Mack the Knife" Macklin (25-2, 18KO) stopped "Idi" Amin Asikainen (26-3, 17KO; former Ring Magazine MW #6) in the 1st round in Manchester last night, winning the vacant EBU Middleweight title. Asikainen, who held said championship in 2006-2007 has been trying to get back on track ever since losing it to Sebastian Sylvester in June 2006. Since that defeat, he went 4-0 until losing a title fight to Khoren Gevor in November 2008 in Helsinki.

Asikainen came out sharp, but Macklin dropped him with a left hook at 1:45. Asikainen did get up, but Macklin dropped him again at 2:34, causing the stoppage. After the fight, Asikainen's coach Pekka Mäki (son of Olli Mäki, a ranked featherweight in the 1960's) told the media that the defeat casts serious shadows to Asikainen's career.

- We have to consider, if there still is something for him in boxing. It's a difficult question. This was in many ways a decisive fight as far as his career goes. You just can't lose like this.

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Rudy Valentino Accuses Georges St. Pierre of Steroid Use

Macklin TKOs Asikainen in RD1