{"id":316564,"date":"2019-06-16T13:05:34","date_gmt":"2019-06-16T20:05:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=316564"},"modified":"2019-06-16T13:05:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T20:05:34","slug":"gegard-mousasi-was-suspicious-tj-dillashaw-was-doping-for-a-long-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/gegard-mousasi-was-suspicious-tj-dillashaw-was-doping-for-a-long-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Gegard Mousasi was &#8216;suspicious&#8217; TJ Dillashaw was doping &#8216;for a long time&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, former UFC bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw tested positive for the banned substance EPO and suspended for two years by the United States Anti-Doping Agency as a result. Bellator middleweight champion Gegard Mousasi says he suspected the bantamweight of doping for &#8220;a long time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/youtu.be\/1dARnaz-JWM<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe stupidity of fighters, knowing that they\u2019re gonna get tested, and they still do it. It shows how desperate they are, so it\u2019s usually a sign that people have been abusing it before, that they don\u2019t feel they can do it without it,\u201d Mousasi told The Score.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd TJ Dillashaw, for a long time it was suspicious that he did steroids,\u201d Mousasi said. \u201cAnd after USADA came, he still did it. They didn\u2019t catch him the first two times, but eventually they caught him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s nothing to say about those guys. If you win a fight, you deserve it. It\u2019s yours. But let\u2019s say if you do steroids or you do some different things and you win it, then you steal something from the other guy. That\u2019s the way I see it. It\u2019s in the rules: no steroids. It\u2019s the same as don\u2019t go through a red light, don\u2019t kill anybody, it\u2019s a rule. And if they don\u2019t follow it, they should be punished and not very lightly, I feel, a lot heavier.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on a recent episode of Chael Sonnen&#8217;s <em>You&#8217;re Welcome<\/em> podcast, TJ Dillashaw discussed his decision to cheat, explaining that it had a lot to do with his weight cut down to 125 pounds (read that <a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/mma-news\/ufc\/tj-dillashaw-opens-up-on-decision-to-cheat\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>What do you think of this comment from Gegard Mousasi?<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>This article first appeared on\u00a0<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/\"><span class=\"s1\"><i>BJPENN.COM<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0on 6\/16\/2019. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this year, former UFC bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw tested positive for the banned substance EPO and suspended for two years by the United States Anti-Doping Agency as a result. Bellator middleweight champion Gegard Mousasi says he suspected the bantamweight of doping for &#8220;a long time.&#8221; https:\/\/youtu.be\/1dARnaz-JWM \u201cThe stupidity of fighters, knowing that they\u2019re gonna [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54430,"featured_media":298470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[10349,10185,39610],"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>Gegard Mousasi was &#039;suspicious&#039; TJ Dillashaw was doping &#039;for a long time&#039; | BJPenn.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gegard Mousasi claims he suspected that former UFC bantamweight champion TJ Dillashaw was cheating for &quot;a long time.&quot;\" \/>\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\/mma-news\/ufc\/gegard-mousasi-was-suspicious-tj-dillashaw-was-doping-for-a-long-time\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gegard Mousasi was &#039;suspicious&#039; 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