Author: Dr. Steroids

To pound his body into shape for the big-budget version of The A-Team, Bradley Cooper speed-hiked up the Grind, a famous trail outside of Vancouver that shoots up 2,800 feet of mountainside, completing the grueling trek in just 37 minutes. “The man,”says director Joe Carnahan, “is a beast.” Another Beast But I think there is another beast on the set. Former UFC champion Quinton “Rampage” Jackson. He takes on the role of Bosco “B.A” Baracas, which was played by Mr. T. A-Team is based on the campy NBC series that made a household name out of Mr. T. Rampage sprints…

Brock Lesnar has once again been victorious in his life.  This time, however, it wasn’t on a wrestling mat, in a football stadium, in a ring or in a cage.  It was in his own body.  Brock Lesnar has defeated a very nasty disease known as diverticulitis.  Due to his illness, Brock hasn’t graced the octagon since UFC 100 when he devastated Frank Mir with is incredible strength and ground and pound skills.  Holding the UFC heavyweight title when he became ill, fans began to wonder if they would ever get to see Brock defend it.  Brock recently made an…

Extreme Fighter Kenny “Ken-Flo” Florian (12-4) is set to face Takanori Gomi (31-5) at Ultimate Fight Night 21.  Florian has been triumphant in 7 of his last 8 fights.  That one loss was to “The Prodigy” BJ Penn.  Kenny, a former soccer player is also a Brizillian Jiu-Jitsu Black belt and is coming off a stunning second round submission (rear naked choke) over Clay Guida at UFC 107.  Kenny also holds notable wins over tough fighters such as Joe Stevenson, Joe Lauzon and Din Thomas.   Kenny is now looking to get back into title contention and Takanori Gomi is…

Fabricio Werdum (13-4-1) recently told Tatame that he is 99% certain that he would be facing Fedor Emelianenko (31-1-1) at the April 16th Strikeforce Event.  Werdum is a BJJ, Muay Thai and Judo fighter with a recent first round submission win over Antonio “Big Foot” Silva at the Fedor vs Rogers Strikeforce event on November 7th, 2009. Fedor Emelianenko is thought by most to be the best pound for pound fighter in the world.  He once again proved his near invincibility as he crushed Bret Rogers with an amazing TKO (punches) victory. Over 25 million viewers tuned in to watch…

Remember the very tough Ultimate Fighter Reality TV show contestant Matt “The Immortal” Brown (11-7) ?  Well, he is back and will be facing Ricardo Almeida (11-3) at UFC 111.  Matt Brown is on a three fight win streak defeating Ryan Thomas, Pete Sell and James Wilks.  Not only has Brown shown brut toughness in his fights, but he has also shown some pretty solid Muay Tahi and BJJ skills.  Brown spends his time training with Matt Hume out of Seattle and with Wanderlei Silva’s Warrior Training Center in Las Vegas, NV and is surely making hugh gains in his…

2009 was a huge year for the sport of MMA. Strikeforce emerged as the first organization capable of challenging the UFC, while fighters like Jose Aldo and Dan Hardy burst on to the scene. Some of the sport’s best further proved their greatness with Fedor Emelianenko , Anderson Silva, and Georges St. Pierre all making cases to be considered the best pound for pound fighter in the world. As the sport continues to grow, 2010 should be filled with plenty of great story lines of its own. These ten fighters should play a prominent role in this year’s headlines. 1. Jon Jones-UFC Light Heavyweight…

The first of four Grand Slam Championships are underway in Australia. Broadcaster Dick Enberg called this the most competitive men’s draw in Australian Open history. Will Rafael Nadal make a run to win it all and reclaim his number one world ranking, or can Roger Federer continue to dominate men’s tennis? Which one of the lesser known men has a shot to put his name on the tennis map early in the 2010 season? Do you think you have the answers? Well so do I, let’s see how we compare as I serve it up in the great down under. Is…

A hot button issue in sports today is steroid use, most notably anabolic steroids or as the sporting world refers to them as PED’s (performance enhancing drugs). I don’t and have not used steroids in my lifetime and probably wouldn’t let or encourage my children to use them. With that being said, I don’t have negative opinions about them or about the people who use them. The Problem is Excess With our tendency to under educate ourselves and overly consume anything and everything in sight has created the general perception that steroids are horrible. I am not a doctor, nor…

It was quite a situation this afternoon.  On the phone via conference call, four fighters who were about to challenge for two Strikeforce championships.  Nick Diaz and Marius Zaromskis for the welterweight title and Chris “Cyborg” Santos and Marloes Coenen for the lightweight women’s championship.  There were members of mmajunkie, USA Today, Sports Illustrated….and me, a 24 year old college kid with no true professional sports journalism experience simply thanking my lucky stars I was given the opportunity to participate. Things got off to a bit of a rocky start when the conference start was delayed 15 minutes.  I had…

The Atlanta Hawks were down 4 points with 10 seconds to go against the Phoenix Suns when Jamal Crawford began to wave his magic wand… The Hawks got within 2 points after Amare Stoudamire hit only 1 of 2 foul shots, and Hawks coach Mike Woodson called a timeout.  He aimed to draw up a play for an easy basket.  If you’re not into basketball let me explain: When you’re down 2 points the other team is deathly afraid to foul you because they don’t want to give you a 3-point play as you go to the basket.  Well, Mike…