{"id":356275,"date":"2025-12-18T15:08:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/356275\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T15:08:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T15:08:05","slug":"aljamain-sterling-sounds-off-on-doping-in-mixed-martial-arts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/356275\/","title":{"rendered":"Aljamain Sterling sounds off on doping in mixed martial arts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former UFC champion Aljamain Sterling didn\u2019t hold back when giving his thoughts on the state of doping in mixed martial arts.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout the last few years, Aljamain Sterling has consistently possessed something that many fighters lack \u2013 a great physique. He is also a former UFC bantamweight champion, and his goal is to try and achieve that feat once again, this time in the featherweight division.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/movlid-khaybulaev\/movlid-khaybulaev-slammed-former-foe-one-year-suspension-usada\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Former PFL champ Movlid Khaybulaev slammed by former foe after USADA announces one-year-suspension<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sterling is one of many fighters who has spoken out in the past about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bjpenn.com\/mma-news\/conor-mcgregor\/conor-mcgregor-suspended-18-months-for-violation-of-ufc-anti-doping-policy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">doping in mixed martial arts<\/a> and combat sports in general. It has been a significant issue for a long time, with some fighters being accused and never found guilty, while others have managed to fly under the radar before being suddenly exposed.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/funkmasterMMA\/status\/2001606605323092071\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">series of tweets<\/a>, Sterling had some interesting thoughts on the current state of doping.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Ppl think these drug tests stop fighters or any athlete from cheating lol. Yall kill me. There\u2019s so many ppl on shit still. I respect all athletes but how do you respect willful cheating? You can\u2019t and you shouldn\u2019t.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aljamain Sterling (@funkmasterMMA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/funkmasterMMA\/status\/2001606605323092071?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 18, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sterling\u2019s view on doping in mixed martial arts<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPpl think these drug tests stop fighters or any athlete from cheating lol. Yall kill me. There\u2019s so many ppl on s**t still. I respect all athletes but how do you respect willful cheating? You can\u2019t and you shouldn\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A fan then suggested that a lot of fighters from Dagestan are using performance-enhancing drugs, to which Aljamain had the following to say.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI won\u2019t say that. But I will say a lot of these guys are really on s**t. If you feel mentally and physically weak, then don\u2019t f***ing compete. S**t is weird.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Do you agree? Let us know, BJPENN Nation!<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former UFC champion Aljamain Sterling didn\u2019t hold back when giving his thoughts on the state of doping in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356276,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-356275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-fighting","11":"tag-mma","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}