Eddie Alvarez Talks PEDs: I’m Like A F***ing Unicorn In This Sport
Following his win over Gilbert Melendez at UFC 188, it was announced that Melendez tested positive for exogenous origin of testosterone metabolites. To say the least, Eddie Alvarez was not expecting this nor was anyone else. Alvarez would have never guessed that Melendez would do such a thing.
“I never looked at him as someone who would use something like that,” the former Bellator lightweight champion told Ariel Helwani on a recent edition of The MMA Hour.
“I’m really gullible with that stuff,” Alvarez said. “I assume nobody does it. When I train with guys, I assume they don’t do that stuff, it’s pretty rampant. I’m like a fucking unicorn in this sport, I’m a weirdo in that I don’t do anything.”
According to Alvarez, everyone he trains with is clean, including Frankie Edgar. Even with such clean athletes surrounding him, it surprises him that someone would take PEDS.
“I’ve been around the sport so long, I’m gullible, a lot of guys I train with, surround myself with don’t,” Alvarez said. “Frankie Edgar, the guys I train with and hang out with don’t. So for me its not a normal thing to do, but you hear all these things, this guy’s doing it, guys you assume are never doing it get caught, you’re like, damn, man, everybody on this s—. I feel more and more like an f**king unicorn. What am I, a dork because I don’t do it?”
The UFC and their fighters are in a new age for drug testing. The USADA is taking the promotion by storm with their out-of-competition testing to their fighters, and greatly increased penalties for usage.
“Now that all these strict rules are in place for steroids, all these guys are coming out and looking like bags of s—,” Alvarez said. “Their bodies are changing because they can’t use. I’ve been doing this sport 11 years, drug free, never any enhancement. Now all these guys who needed stuff, they’re all going to fall off. You’re going to see their performances die, their bodies look like s—, guys like myself and guys who have been drug free their whole career are going to be able to rise.”
