{"id":175580,"date":"2015-11-12T19:01:10","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T03:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=175580"},"modified":"2022-02-04T17:32:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T01:32:19","slug":"cro-cop-admits-to-growth-hormone-usage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/cro-cop-admits-to-growth-hormone-usage\/","title":{"rendered":"Cro Cop admits to growth hormone usage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Mirko Cro Cop revealed that he would be <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/mirko-cro-cop-pulls-out-of-ufc-fn-seoul-co-headliner-retires-from-mma\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">retiring from MMA as a result of a shoulder injury sustained in training.<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Cro Cop penned a lengthy statement on his official website, where he explained that he had been training with an injury throughout his entire training camp for his UFC Fight Night: Seoul fight against Anthony Hamilton.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week it was revealed that <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mmanews\/officials-reveal-cro-cop-potentially-violated-anti-doping-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cro Cop had potentially violated a USADA rule<\/a>, and had been suspended.<\/p>\n<p>Now, Cro Cop is admitting that in a &#8220;desperate&#8221; move he used a growth hormone to help his shoulder. <\/p>\n<p>He released a statement through his <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirkofilipovic.com\/en\/vijesti\/item\/280-i-finished-my-career-due-to-injuries-not-because-usada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">website<\/a>, which we have an excerpt of for you below:<\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;Growth hormones are on the list of banned substances,&#8221; Cro Cop wrote. &#8220;I knew that already. But there was no other way to save my shoulder&#8211;at least in my mind&#8211;without combining the blood plasma with growth hormones. Unfortunately it turns out the only cure was a good break and rest. But a desperate man will try anything.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;After 6 days of growth hormone and plasma injections, the USADA came to test me. I gave them my blood sample and urine samples and immediately told the UFC about the test. I also said that I had been taking blood plasma and growth hormone since nothing else was working.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>You can read the full statement on Cro Cop&#8217;s website by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirkofilipovic.com\/en\/vijesti\/item\/280-i-finished-my-career-due-to-injuries-not-because-usada\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THIS LINK.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Mirko Cro Cop revealed that he would be retiring from MMA as a result of a shoulder injury sustained in training. Cro Cop penned a lengthy statement on his official website, where he explained that he had been training with an injury throughout his entire training camp for his UFC Fight Night: Seoul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":174012,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v19.7 (Yoast SEO v19.14) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Cro Cop admits to growth hormone usage | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/cro-cop-admits-to-growth-hormone-usage\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Cro Cop admits to growth hormone usage | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Last week Mirko Cro Cop revealed that he would be retiring from MMA as a result of a shoulder injury sustained in training. 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