MMA analyst Chael Sonnen doesn’t believe that Conor McGregor is on steroids. The Irish star has been the subject of much controversy of late thanks to his removal from the USADA testing pool coinciding with some serious muscle gain. Sonnen, however, insisted on The MMA Hour that McGregor is simply trolling his fans.
““Conor’s clean. He’s been trolling, he’s been having fun with people. Come on. A guy doesn’t go out and do a crime and then document the crime. Conor put the pictures out. He’s having fun with people. He’s clean.”
Sonnen Claims Conor McGregor is Clean, Trolls USADA
McGregor recently engaged in a public spat with fellow UFC fighter Anthony Smith over Smith’s allegation that “The Notorious” has been using some chemical assistance to bulk up and recover from the broken leg he sustained in July 2021.
“I believe that Conor has chosen his words very carefully. I believe that he’s creating conversation. I know that every word that he said is to insinuate that he’s avoiding the pool for scandalous reasons. Just to give you an example, Conor spoke five days ago and said, ‘I’ll be ready to enter the pool in February.’ What do you mean you’ll be ready? He knew what he was doing. He wanted that put out there.
I will tell you, I believe that Conor left the pool. He’s never been clear on this. I believe he left because of logistical reasons. The whereabouts clause in violation of having to let someone know where you are 24/7/365, right, if you’re not where you said you’re going to be, it’s a mark and if you get three marks in a calendar year it’s an instant fail and that fail comes with a minimum punishment of two years.
I just bring for you that if he was off doing Roadhouse and medication and he knew he wasn’t going to fight anyway and he just didn’t want to keep up on the organizational side of it, I think that he made the right decision. I think Conor is having fun with people, making them think that he’s on some form of anabolics.”
Sonnen also argued that McGregor doing whatever it takes to heal his broken body. “There are things that are against the rules that would flag you for USADA that are 100 percent medically appropriate and sometimes even urgent and I don’t think any athlete, including Conor McGregor, should have to balance advice of a doctor about his health against a sports agency and they don’t really have room for that.
I don’t think USADA has a lot of flaws, in fact I put them in the category of very reasonable people, but they don’t have anything for that. So if Conor wanted to remove himself to remove subjectivity to any kind of… He did the right thing.” Is McGregor juicing? Let us know in the comments.
