Sonnen tests positive for PED's

exactly what i said, a real blow if it's true.

Damn, you are probably right. Can you imagine if he would've beat Silva for the belt?? He would've been stripped...This sucks SO bad for Sonnen right now...

I know this'll probably be a long response, but this is the write-up I did of it on fighters.com. It's not the whole article, just my opinion of it. Since this issue probably won't be going away anytime soon, I figured I'd chime in here as well as at fighters. So here's what I think.

"I know what I’m about to say is going to upset some people, so allow me to throw out fair warning and explain a few things. First off, yes I’m an Anderson Silva fan. A huge one. A massive one. I won’t deny it. But that doesn’t mean I loathe Chael Sonnen. Maybe I did when this rivalry first started, but I don’t now. If you forced me to make a choice I’d even say that I’m a fan of the man. He’s got a brilliant mind and real fighting skill. So the following isn’t said out of malice towards Chael Sonnen the person. It’s directed towards Chael Sonnen the athlete, the professional fighter, the man who supposedly (if no eleventh-hour revelations come out) cheated to get ahead.

So here it is: I have absolutely no sympathy for Chael Sonnen, and he should be ashamed of himself. I will never, ever, not-in-a-million-years ever condone Performance Enhancing Drugs in sports. I just don’t have it in me. It’s unfair to the opponents who do play by the rules. It’s unfair to the promotions that spend a fortune building up their stars only to have that good faith tarnished. It’s even unfair to the person taking the drugs, as cold, hard science has linked PEDs to a variety of potentially fatal side-effects.

What’s more, this permanently puts an asterisk next to the best performance of Chael Sonnen’s career. Chael Sonnen fans harp on him coming closer than anybody’s ever been in recent history to beating Anderson Silva. That doesn’t mean anything, nothing at all, if Sonnen cheated to get there. In fact, it makes his performance downright saddening (or laughable, depending on whom you ask): even when taking illegal drugs, even when his opponent had a bad rib injury, Chael Sonnen still couldn’t beat Anderson Silva.

I don’t know where this leaves Chael Sonnen… nowhere good, that’s for sure. There’s very little room for debate, the precedent for these tests being correct and not false positives are overwhelming. Sonnen has a long and very difficult road ahead of him if he wants to restore his good name. It’s not impossible, and if all this does end up being untrue you’ll see me quickly recant this entire article. But that is highly, highly unlikely. And for now, I think Chael Sonnen’s career just hit a massive roadblock. And he has nobody to blame but himself."

If he really did take steiroids all I have to say is... Haha... Too bad for him. Its not a ohhh poor him situation. He ed his career up no one is doing this to him. But if it was not steiroids or PED or whatever then he deserves justice to be served and his planned rematch...

California has a very strict stance on the "testing positive" thing. Guys have tested positive there for simple over-the-counter drugs which are considered PED's for whatever reason in California.

I really hope it's for the flu and wasn't anything else...Sonnen still deserves a rematch in my view, because I don't see anyone coming close to beating Silva. Sonnen is still on of my favorite fighters and I hope what he did to Silva isn't tarnished.

I think it's a little early in the game to be throwing his career out the window. I think we can all agree that if it was something as silly as flu medicine as james said than he will and should be fine and this wont be a problem.

If it's something worse than he's a dumbass and doesn't deserve a lick of respect.... I gotta tell you tho as a new owner of his recent walkout shirt I hope it's option one

This, though if it does come back as true then I for one will be incredibly disappointed, like others here.

I had noticed the bacne from the 117 pic the minute I saw it. I just figured that he was one of the fighters who cycled on it and quit in time to test negative.