Strikeforce's 'King Mo' Lawal tests positive for anabolic steroid, fighter denies use

[R.H.]

by MMAjunkie.com Staff on Jan 17, 2012 at 12:25 pm ET Former Strikeforce light-heavyweight champion Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal tested positive for the anabolic steroid Drostanolone at the Jan. 7 "Strikeforce: Rockhold vs. Jardine" event.

That's according to Nevada State Athletic Commission Executive Director Keith Kizer, who today emailed the event's drug-testing results to MMAjunkie.com (http://www.mixfight.nl/) (www.mmajunkie.com).

When today contacted by MMAjunkie.com, Lawal denied using any banned substances.

All other fighters from the Las Vegas show tested negative for performance-enhancing drugs and drugs of abuse.

Lawal (9-1 MMA, 4-1 SF) scored a second-round knockout of Lorenzo Larkin at the event, which took place at The Joint at Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. Lawal, who was fighting for the second time since losing his Strikeforce belt, fought in the night's Showtime-televised main card.

Barring a successful appeal, Lawal faces a one-year suspension, a fine, and the overturning of the win to a no-contest.

Drostanolone (also known as Drolban or Masteron) often is used as a diuretic among weight-cutting athletes, according to various online sources.

Other fighters tested at the event include Luke Rockhold, Keith Jardine, Robbie Lawler, Tyron Woodley, Tarec Saffiedine, Tyler Stinson, Nah-Shon Burrell, James Terry, Gian Villante, Trevor Smith, Ricky Legere, Chris Spang, Estevan Payan and Alonzo Martinez. All tested negative.

Stay tuned to MMAjunkie.com for more on this story, including reaction from Lawal.



http://mmajunkie.com/news/27008/strikeforces-king-mo-lawal-tests-positive-for-anabolic-steroid-fighter-denies-use.mma

[Kemal]

Ja las het net ook, pff die wordt ook gecut hoor..

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King Mo Lawal Tests Positive for Steroid Drostanalone

Muhammed "King Mo" Lawal, the former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion who returned to the cage on January 7, may not be back in the cage any time soon after testing positive for a banned steroid.

Lawal tested positive for Drostanalone, the Nevada State Athletic Commission announced today.

Drostanalone can be used as a medication for lowering cholesterol and is sometimes prescribed to cancer patients, but it is also used as a performance-enhancing substance. It is particularly known as a steroid that athletes and bodybuilders use when they are attempting to maintain strength and muscle mass while cutting weight.

The Nevada Commission did not say what discipline Lawal will face, but fighters who test positive for performance-enhancing drugs typically have their license suspended for anywhere from six months to a year. Lawal's TKO victory was viewed as likely to earn him another shot at the Strikeforce light heavyweight title, but that apparently won't happen now.

Lawal is the second well-known Strikeforce fighter to fail a performance-enhancing drug test recently. Cris Cyborg, the promotion's 145-pound female champion, also tested positive for steroids at her most recent fight.

The Nevada Commission announced that all the other fighters who took part in the January 7 Strikeforce show tested negative for all banned substances.

[youssef22]

Dag ufc droom

[MMAProfessor]

nou... LHW titel moet nu wel feijao vs mousasi worden!!

[stevie_wondah]

Wel jammer, vind het een goede vechter die zekers potten kan breken in de ufc.

[Nelisje]

Die verdomde dieetsupplementen..lijkt me dat meneer Lawal werkeloos is vanaf heden.

[Lionheart]

Die verdomde dieetsupplementen..lijkt me dat meneer Lawal werkeloos is vanaf heden.

Nou werkloos denk ik niet.

DREAM ontvangt hem met open armen.

[Strange Cutbean]

Nou werkloos denk ik niet.

DREAM ontvangt hem met open armen.

Nou ja, dan heeft hij wel werk maar geen geld.

[waarel]

Zonde, ik vond Mo een gave vechter

[Lionheart]

Nou ja, dan heeft hij wel werk maar geen geld.

Oh is dat zo? Fedor die heeft dus ook gratis gevochten op 31 december? Doen ze goed DREAM!

[Strange Cutbean]

Bij wijze van spreken!

[redjuh]

Did Mo share a drink with Cris Cyborg Santos?

[dirk5]

Nou ja, dan heeft hij wel werk maar geen geld.

Pfff... Dream is k-1 niet...

[Harrie Nak]

Rampage zijn reactie...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b93vvNzm65I

[amilster]

Rampage zijn reactie...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b93vvNzm65I

Rampage responds to King Mo's Positive Drug test!! "Its just karma, look at him."

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“It’s just karma, look at him. He’s a ****y a very ****y individual and I feel any fighter who has to use steroids to go in the cage and fight somebody is not a true fighter.”

Source


Rampage talks at legth about king mo and gives his thoughts on bisping vs sonnen but the quote pretty much sums up his thoughts on Mo. Discuss!

[Mule-Kick]

Jammer, benieuwd wat ze met hem gaan doen nu kwa contract

[Harrie Nak]

Roy Nelson heeft ook gereageerd via Twitter, met daarin een opvallende verwijzing naar Overeem:


King Mo (@KingMoFH) Your innocent, until proven otherwise. Just cause ur black doesn't mean your guilty, Overeem passed. I say #peemixup #peemixup

[FOCUS]

hypocriet zooitje daar :hypocrite:

[El Bambino]

Tja het is ook een beetje te zien aan zijn lichaam, doet me een beetje denken aan Kevin Randleman.

[Leventdepevent]

wat een lul zeg

[Lionheart]

hypocriet zooitje daar :hypocrite:

Erg hypocriet daar! Chael wordt gepakt en krijgt een schorsing, Marquardt wordt gecut, Mo wordt gecut, hmmm...

Wat is de norm om wel/niet te worden gecut? Je populariteit?

[Asura]

Erg hypocriet daar! Chael wordt gepakt en krijgt een schorsing, Marquardt wordt gecut, Mo wordt gecut, hmmm...

Wat is de norm om wel/niet te worden gecut? Je populariteit?

TRT op recept van een dokter & steroidengebruik zonder een medische noodzaak.

[The Company]

Sonnen zijn excuus was toch dat hij vroeger gepest was omdat hij maar niet in de pubertijd wou raken en een kleine lul had?:lol:

[MMAProfessor]

Maar je kunt wel stellen dat de zaak van Sonnen toch anders lag dan deze king mo en al helemaal met Marquardt. Sonnen werd als ik me niet vergis in eerste instantie toch ook vrij snel vrijgesproken en daarna weer niet en heel gedoe met die commissie, bij Marquardt werdt een main event 24uur voor aanvang gecanceld door zijn omstandigheden toen. Kan me wel iets indenken dat je dan als baas helemaal gek wordt

[TOON]

ik denk wel dat de populariteit wel invloed heeft hoe de UFC met vechters omgaat die na een schorsing weer mogen vechten....

[Kemal]

Mo Lawal Won't Appeal Positive Test for Steroids, but Will File an 'Answer'

Former Strikeforce light heavyweight champ "King" Mo Lawal likely won't appeal a positive steroid test following his win over Lorenz Larkin at a Strikeforce event in Las Vegas earlier this month, the fighter and his manager, Mike Kogan, told Ariel Helwani on Monday's edition of The MMA Hour. Neither will they admit that Lawal knowingly or willfully ingested the steroid Drostanolone, however.

Instead of pleading innocent or guilty to the charges, it appears the Lawal camp will plead ignorance, blaming an over-the-counter supplement.

"Since we're not contesting the findings of the commission test, we're not challenging the chain of custody, we're not pointing fingers at anybody and we're not calling for conspiracy theories, I don't believe we'll actually file an appeal per se," Kogan told Helwani. "What we will file is an answer, and an answer would involve affirming their test results and providing our findings and our explanation."

The guilty party, according to Kogan and Lawal, is a supplement called S-Mass Lean Gainer by Rock Solid, which Lawal said he bought at a Max Muscle store in California and used only sporadically for "rehab stuff," the fighter explained. It was recommended to him by a Max Muscle employee some time in April of 2010, he said, though it's since been removed from the market, according to Kogan, who admitted he had no knowledge that Lawal was taking any supplements at all prior to his positive drug screening.

"To the best of my research, this product was taken off the shelves some time in mid-2011, for exactly the same reason that we're facing right now. Its primary and only relevant ingredient of that particular product is a substance known as Methyldrostanolone, which is basically just a pill format of Drostanolone," Kogan said.

Lawal insisted he'd "never even heard of [Drostanolone]," and was first alerted that he'd tested positive for it when reporters began calling him with the news handed down by the Nevada State Athletic Commission. Lawal insisted he'd never knowingly taken any illegal performance-enhancing substances at any point in his athletic career, and touted his long history of clean tests in collegiate and international wrestling competitions.

"For me, the best way to get an advantage over your opponent is through hard work, preparation, and your skills," Lawal said. "That's the best way to get an advantage over anybody. Game-planning. That's the best way to beat your opponent."

At the same time, Lawal admitted that he didn't research the supplement before taking it, even though he was well aware of instances where over-the-counter workout aids had resulted in positive drug tests for other athletes.

"When I went to Max Muscle, I figured you can't buy steroids at a Max Muscle. It's a chain store," he said. "That's like going to a grocery store and buying something illegal there. ...I guess that's the mistake I made. When I looked at the bottle, it just had a bunch of numbers on it. It had the ingredients. I didn't see anything that looked illegal on the bottle, to be honest with you."

And yet, as athletic commissions love to remind fighters -- and as Kogan and Lawal both admitted -- the athlete bears the ultimate responsibility for what goes into his system. As Helwani pointed out, even a quick Google search on the product reveals web sites that describe it as "the most powerful designer anabolic ever created," and suggests that consumers "conduct all the necessary research that comes with using a designer anabolic of this nature."

Still, Kogan appeared eager to turn the conversation into a referendum on "the supplement industry," which he said "knowingly, intentionally, and maliciously misguides, hides, mislabels, and resynthesizes and does all kinds of tricks to try to keep selling you the product that they themselves know is illegal."

"If Mo would have purchased this product in some back alley from some guy who happens to lift weights, the setting itself would probably warrant a lot more alarm than walking into a nutrition store -- and not walking in there and saying, 'Hey do you guys sell any anabolic steroids?' -- but just walking in there and saying that he's looking for a supplement to help reinforce his muscle during light lifting and being recommended a substance," Kogan said. "Also, in 2010 this product was not taken off the shelves. This product was not illegal. This product was not being marketed as an anabolic steroid."

That argument will be part of Lawal's "answer" when he appears in front of the NSAC, Kogan said, where he'll likely make more of an attempt to explain his positive test rather than refute it.

"Our primary focus with the commission and the Attorney General's office is intent," Kogan said. "We had no intent of taking any illegal substance and we believe we have enough evidence and enough character references to make that point very clear."

As for whether that explanation will satisfy fans, Lawal declined to speculate, but he did say that he would only take Nature Made supplements from now on.

"People are going to accuse me of whatever they're going to accuse me of," he said. "I can't focus on that. All I know is that I know the truth. The truth is out there, I've got nothing to hide, and we'll see what happens come time for the hearing. I'm not going to worry about the negatives. I'm just going to focus on the positives. That's all I can do, man."

Somewhat ironically, Kogan suggested that fans resist forming an opinion on the matter until they'd done all the research -- exactly what Kogan and Lawal admit they did not do on the supplement that caused this situation in the first place.

"Listen, everybody has a story and every athlete has an explanation," Kogan said. "All we ask for is that people do their own research before they jump to conclusions and then arrive to a conclusion after that. Don't just read the headlines and be influenced by headline-chasing reporters based on that. You know, everybody cries wolf, but there are circumstances where the wolf is really there. I strongly believe that this is that circumstance."


http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/19960621

[Kemal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=4BmHEWXId34

[Kemal]

Dana White Doesn't Buy the 'Tainted Supplement' Excuse

After King Mo Lawal tested positive for a banned steroid this month, he said he believed the substance got into his system because it was in a supplement that he legally purchased over the counter.

UFC President Dana White says that excuse isn't good enough.

White said Thursday that he thinks all professional athletes need to know for sure what they're putting in their systems, and that any fighter who tests positive for a banned substance needs to deal with the consequences, regardless of the reason.

"If you get caught doing something, admit you did it," White said. "The whole 'Somebody put something in my system that I didn't know about?' I mean, who here lets someone put s--t inside them that you don't know what it is? If you go to the doctor and he gives you a pill, 'Doc, what am I taking this for?'"

White said he wishes fighters who test positive for performance-enhancing drugs would simply admit that they were trying to gain an unfair advantage, rather than plead ignorance about the contents of the supplements they were taking.

"I don't buy that s--t," White said. "Own up to what you did. Listen, it's out there, it happens, and sometimes everybody makes mistakes."

White said he hopes the UFC's new policy of testing all new fighters at the time they sign their first UFC contracts will deter young mixed martial artists from taking performance-enhancing drugs.

"The up-and-coming guys, you're already talented, you're already fast, you're already strong, do not ruin your career by taking this junk that will affect you for the rest of your life," White said.

And as for the established fighters who test positive and say they didn't know the ingredients of the supplements they were taking? White doesn't want to hear it.

"I don't buy it," White said. "Anybody that's ever said that they didn't know what's being put in their body is full of s--t."

[Shikoku]

Ik denk dat de grootste verliezer hier Strikeforce is. King Mo was een van de grotere namen die ze nog hadden. Mo zal ongetwijfeld over een jaar terug zijn met een UFC contract. Aangezien ze het daar bij de UFC niet zo nauw mee nemen.

[FOCUS]

die Dana -snort- WHITE heeft zelf ook wel es nu en dan aan de bollen gezeten, wed ik

[Kemal]

Mo Lawal Reacts to NSAC Fine, Suspension: 'I Feel Like I Just Wasted My Time'

Former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion "King" Mo Lawal got his day in court with the Nevada State Athletic Commission on Tuesday, but he’ll go home $39,000 poorer as a result of it.

The NSAC voted to suspend Lawal for nine months as a result of a positive steroid test following his Jan. 7 win over Lorenz Larkin. It also voted to take his $15,000 win bonus, and fine him 30 percent of his $80,000 show purse -- a total penalty of $39,000 on the $95,000 he made for the bout. The result of the fight was also changed from a TKO win for Lawal to a ‘no contest.’

According to Lawal, the outcome of the hearing wasn’t necessarily a shock, but it also didn’t necessarily seem fair to him to have commission members accuse him of misrepresenting the extent of his knee injury coming into the bout, he said.

"They come out hard on everybody," Lawal told MMA Fighting moments after the hearing concluded. "Pretty much, when you come to [an NSAC hearing], you’re going to lose. That’s how I see it. I feel like they tried to twist my words a little bit by saying that I was injured coming into the fight. ...All fighters have some types of bumps and bruises, but I felt like I came into that fight pretty good. I mean, you couldn’t tell that I had unstable cartilage, could you?"
Since testing positive for the steroid Drostanolone, Lawal and manager Mike Kogan have repeatedly claimed that a nutritional supplement -- S-Mass Lean Gainer -- was the real culprit. But the commission seized on Lawal’s failure to disclose his usage of the supplement and the lingering knee injury that he says necessitated it, and ultimately decided not to grant him leniency.

To hear Lawal tell it, what bothered him more than the fine and the suspension was the suggestion that he had lied about his knee injury or attempted to gain an unfair advantage.

"The whole cheating [accusation], their attitude about that, that’s what got me," Lawal said. "I feel like I just wasted my time there, to be honest with you."

The nine-month suspension is retroactive to the date of the fight, meaning that Lawal can re-apply for a license in September of 2012. Lawal estimated he wouldn’t be physically ready to fight before next fall anyway, thanks to issues stemming from a staph infection he contracted following knee surgery in January. The infection is now "pretty much gone," according to Lawal, but after losing 30 pounds in the last couple months he still has a lengthy rehab ahead of him.

As for what he learned from his day with the NSAC? The takeaway lesson there is a simple one, Lawal said.

"My advice to anyone dealing with the [Nevada State Athletic] Commission is, just do it over the phone. Don’t waste your time coming to Vegas, because you will get got. I had a few people tell me that, to just do it over the phone. Maybe I should have listened to them, but I felt like I needed to come tell my side of the story and I did. It made no difference."

[Kemal]

Mo Lawal Cut From Strikeforce, NSAC Hearing and His 'Reaction' to Blame, Says Scott Coker

“King” Mo Lawal’s day just went from bad to truly awful. After being fined and suspended by the Nevada State Athletic Commission in a hearing on Tuesday afternoon, the former Strikeforce light heavyweight champion has been released from the organization. The news was first reported by MMAJunkie.com, and confirmed by Lawal’s manager, Mike Kogan, to MMA Fighting’s Ariel Helwani.

In a brief statement over email, Strikeforce CEO Scott Coker wrote only, "Following the outcome of today's hearing with the Nevada State Athletic Commission and his subsequent reaction, STRIKEFORCE has released Muhammad Lawal from his contract."When reached for comment on Tuesday evening, Lawal told MMA Fighting that he thought his comments on Twitter aimed at NSAC commissioner Pat Lundvall were the root cause of his release.

In a tweet that has since been deleted, Lawal referred to Lundvall as a “racist b--ch” for asking him if he could speak and read English when he filled out the pre-fight questionnaire. The commission suggested that Lawal hadn’t been forthcoming in his answers about injuries and medications he’d taken before the fight, and the accusation bothered him, as he told MMA Fighting earlier today.

On Tuesday evening Lawal explained his Twitter reaction, saying, “When I showed up to the hearing, I proved that I can speak and I can read. I don’t know when, but she got mad at me, got irritated, and was like, ‘Look, can you speak and read English?’ Now to me, that’s an insult.”

He added, “Growing up through high school and college, I’d get asked, ‘Do you speak English instead of jive? Do you speak English instead of ebonics?’ For a grown woman to talk to me like that, knowing I’m a college graduate, born in America? I grew up in the south, in Tennessee, went to Oklahoma State, traveled the world, and for her to talk to me like that, that’s disrespectful.”

Earlier on Tuesday, the NSAC voted to suspend Lawal for nine months and fine him a total of $39,000 for his positive drug test for the steroid drostanolone following his win over Lorenz Larkin in a Strikeforce event on Jan. 7. The suspension is retroactive to the date of the fight, leaving him eligible to re-apply for licensing in September of 2012.

[123trisweat]

En weer 1 knock down by twitter!

[Intermec]

Beetje vreemd om hem voor zo'n tweet te ontslaan eigenlijk.
Lijkt me dan ook niet de uiteindelijke reden...

[micha]

No mercy for doping

[fightlove]

http://www.csnbayarea.com/pages/video?PID=tCn7nBe19WGSZkVZBvADrd9SvntSxm1Z

[smike]

Zonde, was toch een goede vechter.