Anyone Care if a UFC Champion is on Steroids? Cuz I Don't.

by WCK, 100% Injury Rate

News has broken today that UFC World Lightweight Champion Sean Shrek has tested positive for steroids. Perhaps even funnier is that the guy he beat in UFC 73 to retain his crown, Hermes Franca, has also tested positive for steroids.

Franca has a rather lame excuse about how he had an injured ankle or something and used the drugs to compensate for that. You know, because we all treat our injured ankles with a steroid shot to the ass.

Anyway, both men appear to be headed for year-long suspensions. And quite frankly, I'm not sure why. I always assumed everyone in MMA was on steroids.

As many of you may know, I'm pretty lax on performance-enhancing drugs. I see sports as entertainment and as a business. If having roided up athletes puts asses in the seats, then by God let 'em roid up. We don't penalize actresses who get boob-jobs, we give them leading roles and we put their pics on our blogs.

Besides, even though MMA is trying to clean up its image and discard the "human cockfighting" tag it received from John McCain, it's never going to be on the same level as baseball or any other major American sport.

Remember, it's two guys beating the snot out of each other. This is as close to gladiator fights as we're going to get in the modern age people. If we're already letting them essentially go no holds barred in the ring, might as well let them go no holds barred out of it too.