{"id":80662,"date":"2014-01-06T08:56:17","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T16:56:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/?p=80662"},"modified":"2022-02-06T12:19:40","modified_gmt":"2022-02-06T20:19:40","slug":"weidmans-trainer-ray-longo-is-critical-of-belforts-trt-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/ufcnews\/weidmans-trainer-ray-longo-is-critical-of-belforts-trt-use\/","title":{"rendered":"Weidman&#8217;s trainer Ray Longo is critical of Belfort&#8217;s TRT use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/vitor-belfortPNG.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-73730\" title=\"vitor belfortPNG\" src=\"http:\/\/staging.tcpcharms.com\/bjpenn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/vitor-belfortPNG.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"390\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ray Longo, who is the head trainer of UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman (11-0 MMA, 7-0 UFC), had some harsh words regarding #1 contender Vitor Belfort&#8217;s (24-10 MMA, 13-6 UFC)\u00a0TRT use, during an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/espn.go.com\/mma\/story\/_\/id\/10233754\/ufc-promote-chris-weidman-vitor-belfort-title-fight\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ESPN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here is what Longo had to say:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;I know Chris is beating the guy, but why give him an advantage?&#8221; <\/em>Longo said.<em> &#8220;Why does he deserve that? All he did was abuse his body with steroids so that now he needs the exemption. It&#8217;s bulls&#8212;.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Belfort is expected to face Weidman for the UFC middleweight title\u00a0later this year in Las Vegas, Nevada.<\/p>\n<p>Are the comments made by Longo justified? Let&#8217;s hear your verdict Penn Nation!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Longo, who is the head trainer of UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman (11-0 MMA, 7-0 UFC), had some harsh words regarding #1 contender Vitor Belfort&#8217;s (24-10 MMA, 13-6 UFC)\u00a0TRT use, during an interview with ESPN. Here is what Longo had to say: &#8220;I know Chris is beating the guy, but why give him an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[2681],"tags":[95,220,9,4232,16,1057],"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>Weidman&#039;s trainer Ray Longo is critical of Belfort&#039;s TRT use | 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\/weidmans-trainer-ray-longo-is-critical-of-belforts-trt-use\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Weidman&#039;s trainer Ray Longo is critical of Belfort&#039;s TRT use | BJPenn.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Ray Longo, who is the head trainer of UFC middleweight champion Chris Weidman (11-0 MMA, 7-0 UFC), had some harsh words regarding #1 contender Vitor Belfort&#8217;s (24-10 MMA, 13-6 UFC)\u00a0TRT use, during an interview with ESPN. 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