Report: Belfort, Nastula Fail Post-Fight Drug Test

**Panzerfaust** · 10-26-2006, 05:58 PM

Thursday, October 26, 2006

Former UFC light heavyweight champion Vitor Belfort (Pictures) and 1996 Olympic gold medalist judoka Pawel Nastula (Pictures) tested positive for banned substances after their defeats at PRIDE 32 “Real Deal,” reports MMAWeekly.com.

According to the report, the NSAC claims Belfort tested positive for 4-hydroxytestosterone, a anabolic known for its anti-estrogenic properties and short half-life, while the Polish grappler provided a sample tainted with nandrolone , a substance that is widely associated with false-positive tests results after consumption of beef from cattle treated with the steroid .

**QuieTSToRM33** · 10-26-2006, 06:11 PM

i think we all knew vitor would eventually get caught

**zodiac666** · 10-26-2006, 06:18 PM

i thought pride didnt test for that shit. have they always tested or was it because it took place in the US?

**Knockout_Power** · 10-26-2006, 06:29 PM

I love how the first thing that is reported is how these substances were only used for non-performance enhancing reasons or how they came from an unknowing source. Just fess up when your caught.

**QuieTSToRM33** · 10-26-2006, 06:35 PM

Originally Posted by zodiac666

i thought pride didnt test for that shit. have they always tested or was it because it took place in the US?

im assuming it was the NSAC

**QuieTSToRM33** · 10-26-2006, 06:37 PM

Originally Posted by Knockout_Power

I love how the first thing that is reported is how these substances were only used for non-performance enhancing reasons or how they came from an unknowing source. Just fess up when your caught.

what does it matter is they confess or not ...... they are condemned by the media as soon as their name is affiliated with "performance enhancing substances" ...whether they have or havent used ... you just did exactly that

**orton4** · 10-26-2006, 09:31 PM

belfort always had an awesome body especially in the past its decreased over the years but i always knew he used aas

**Ammar** · 10-26-2006, 09:47 PM

wow I just saw it on sherdog...thats kinda suprising considering Nastula was always tested for the olympics and Belfort fought in the U.S. before.

**orton4** · 10-27-2006, 12:38 AM

Originally Posted by Ammar

wow I just saw it on sherdog...thats kinda suprising considering Nastula was always tested for the olympics and Belfort fought in the U.S. before.

possibly nastula started using after the olympics and also for belfort i wonder if they tested back in those days when belfort was around 19-20 and looked unbelievable... or maybe they didnt time their cycles right or take the right masking agents... either way it sucks

**Panzerfaust** · 10-27-2006, 07:36 AM

More:

According to the report, the NSAC claims Belfort tested positive for 4-hydroxytestosterone, an anabolic agent known for its anti-estrogenic properties and short half-life. Meanwhile, the Polish grappler provided a sample tainted with nandrolone (commonly referred to as Deca Durabolin ) which is used for rapidly building muscle and enhancing recovery from injury.

PRIDE confirmed to Sherdog.com that of the 10 fighters tested following Saturday's card, only Belfort and Nastula came back positive. An official in PRIDE's American office declined to comment on the news without first speaking to Nobuyuki Sakakibara, CEO of PRIDE promoter Dream Stage Entertainment.

This marks the first time PRIDE-promoted fighters have officially tested positive for anabolic steroids . PRIDE, which is not overseen by any sanctioning or regulatory bodies in Japan, has not to this point mandated testing of performance-enhancing drugs for its Japanese events.

Belfort is no stranger to the drug testing policies of North American regulatory bodies. Having fought in five main events in Nevada and California, Belfort, at a minimum, has returned clean tests a handful of times. This past Saturday, the Brazilian lost by decision in a mid-card bout against American Dan Henderson.

For Nastula, who has no history of abusing performance-enhancing through his storied judo career, which includes Olympic gold in Atlanta, Saturday marked the first time he was tested by a regulatory body after a mixed martial arts contest.

Ironically, Nastula fell in Las Vegas to former UFC heavyweight champion Josh Barnett, the first high-profile MMA casualty of Nevada's drug testing policy. Prior to his bout against Nastula, Barnett was required to provide a drug-free urinalysis so that the NSAC could license him to fight in the States for the first time since being suspended in 2002.

Barnett was also among the fighters — PRIDE heavyweight champion Fedor Emelianenko, Mark Coleman, Mauricio Rua, Kevin Randleman, Dan Henderson, Phil Baroni, and Yosuke Nishijima — who tested clean.

Belfort and Nastula join Kimo Leopoldo and Stephan Bonnar in a well known quartet of mixed martial artists caught, either pre- or post-fight, by regulatory bodies in 2006 with illegal performance-enhancers in their system.

The Brazilian and Polish fighters now face the possibility of suspension and/or fines by the NSAC.

**sonar1234** · 10-27-2006, 08:16 AM

State of Nevada are very severe when it comes to drug testing.

THis is a very good thing to get MMA even cleaner, steroid users OUT

**sonar1234** · 10-27-2006, 08:18 AM

Randleman and Baroni tested clean?

**TR'05** · 10-27-2006, 09:17 AM

Good reads, murilo....I was interested to see who would test positive.

The Bean made it out unscathed???

**zodiac666** · 10-27-2006, 09:21 AM

Originally Posted by sonar1234

State of Nevada are very severe when it comes to drug testing.

THis is a very good thing to get MMA even cleaner, steroid users OUT

do you really care if it is clean? i just want to see the best fighters in the world, i couldnt care less how they train their bodies or what supplements they take.

**Panzerfaust** · 10-27-2006, 09:41 AM

There are many OTC supplements that can trigger a positive test, i would not freak out just yet.

Marquardt was just in this situation recently in the UFC after his fight with Ivan Salavery, it was found that he mixed two or more OTC supplements and they triggered the NSAC test but was later dropped.

**zimmy** · 10-27-2006, 12:18 PM

only goes to support what i'm alway ssaying...steriods do NOT make you a winner on their own in mma.

**Panzerfaust** · 10-27-2006, 02:37 PM

Here is an article on the "steroid " that Vitor took from bodybuilding.com, while not illegal, it is banned by the NSAC:

The term prosteroid seems to have been coined by the supplement industry though it is actually accurate. A prosteroid is a legal (so far) hormone possessing significant activity in its current unaltered state. Some good examples of prosteroids are 1-Testosterone or (AKA 1-Test), 4-Hydroxytestosterone (AKA Testosterone-OH), 4-Hydroxyandrostenedione (AKA Formestane), 4-Hydroxynandrolone (AKA Nandrolone -OH) and the various esters and alkylations there of. These seem to be the prosteroids of greatest question, though they certainly are not new.

**Quil** · 10-27-2006, 08:25 PM

Originally Posted by zodiac666

do you really care if it is clean? i just want to see the best fighters in the world, i couldnt care less how they train their bodies or what supplements they take.

I would tend to agree. It would suck to get banned for failing a test after taking something like Superdrol or Phera Plex.

**sonar1234** · 10-28-2006, 08:41 AM

Originally Posted by zodiac666

do you really care if it is clean? i just want to see the best fighters in the world, i couldnt care less how they train their bodies or what supplements they take.

No flame bro but i do, i really dont want MMA to turn into WWE if you know what i mean.

MMA is getting a lot of bad press has it is no sense of getting even more with theses steroids crap.

I have all the respect in the world for MMA and would love to see it clean.

When i was younger back in 1988 i used to practice kyokushin and about 75% of the students who trained in the gym has well where on steroids.

They always came back empty handed after a competition.

**simm** · 10-28-2006, 12:24 PM

I dont use yet my attitude is **** it if they wanna screw their gas tanks up and loose to a crappier fighter!!! All to their own i suppose!!! I have used and noticed a HUGE difference in muscular endurance and speed,aswell as stamina...So much better without!! Lots of these reasions now are for injury healing and training recovery imo

**sonar1234** · 10-28-2006, 01:46 PM

I used steroids in the past and found i was always sweating like a pig and my heartbeat was always true the roof, i would gas out real fast too.

Great point Simm. I would consider using Deca for my back injury but not for muscular developpment

**Hunter** · 10-28-2006, 07:39 PM

well Wandy has used, barnett alot of of fighters use and are succusful and there are more who use that we dont even know. Its not good press but the majority of the world knows professional athletes use. No big deal in my eyes

**sonar1234** · 10-30-2006, 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by mn_fighter

well Wandy has used, barnett alot of of fighters use and are succusful and there are more who use that we dont even know. Its not good press but the majority of the world knows professional athletes use. No big deal in my eyes

That is the sad thruth

**zodiac666** · 10-30-2006, 07:04 PM

Originally Posted by sonar1234

That is the sad thruth

why is that sad to you? are you worried about the fighters health or that they will be a bad influence on children?

i am just curious what the main reasons are that you are against AAS in sports?

**uponone23** · 10-31-2006, 10:54 PM

Jeff Munson fights Tim Sylvia for the UFC heavyweight title on Nov 18th. If he is not GHed up I will kiss somebodies ass... 5'9'' 245lbs less than 10% body fat... natural my ass... hell of a fighter though.. I hope he breaks one of sylvia's arms..

**Hunter** · 11-01-2006, 02:57 AM

Originally Posted by uponone23

Jeff Munson fights Tim Sylvia for the UFC heavyweight title on Nov 18th. If he is not GHed up I will kiss somebodies ass... 5'9'' 245lbs less than 10% body fat... natural my ass... hell of a fighter though.. I hope he breaks one of sylvia's arms..

I will kiss your ass if he wins. Monson will not win, Timmy is gonna put the stamp on him and no I am not a huge tim fan but the guy can fight plan and simple.

**uponone23** · 11-01-2006, 11:35 AM

we can always hope that sylvia trips and winds up on the ground at which point the fight is over even rhadi ferguson says monson is the worlds best on the ground... but i agree if it stays on the feet for more than a couple minutes its over. Monson is an experienced boxer he is just at too much of a reach disadvantage against sylvia's long limbs. I just really really can't stand tim sylvia.. He got busted for anabolic compounds and he still looks like shit which makes the rest of us look bad...

**sonar1234** · 11-01-2006, 04:25 PM

Yeah UFC might put him up to the test, i dont understand all the chances theses guy take, losing the purse money plus being find a huge amount, and being banned from competition for a period of time.

**trashydiva24** · 11-05-2006, 04:18 PM

Question: can monson wipe his own ass with those arms?????? damn!

**saffro** · 11-06-2006, 12:44 AM

LOL Jeff is one wide MOFO!! He's not a really tall person though. Can't wait for the fight. I hope Jeff wins!

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