Comments on: James Irvin Tests Positive For Methadone and Oxymorphone

By: B Free

B Free — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:42:30 +0000

Well cant say i feel sorry for the guy, he should of just smoked some weed and drank a 40oz like any other self respecting american, i heard brazil gots some good ****e haha Way to go Silva

By: Kris Karkoski

Kris Karkoski — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:14:57 +0000

Ethan – It’s possible he may have taken them after the fight but they’re unapproved prescription drugs so whether he took them before or immediately after matters little as he took them before he was drug tested and it was his responsibility to know whether they are approved by the athletic commission.

I suspect the fighters drug test samples are taken very quickly following the bouts so they have little time to take anything that could be illegal and use the time between the end of the bout and the drug test as an excuse.

Anyways it is possible he took them after the fight but in the eyes on the commission it doesn’t matter when he took them, they just know he took them before his drug test.

By: Ethan

Ethan — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:11:49 +0000

That wasn’t well put. Couldn’t he have started pain meds after the fight?

By: Ethan

Ethan — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 16:11:10 +0000

Kris,
If the tests were administered after the fights, isn’t it reasonable to think that he was already recieving them from the laceration and ‘face flattening’ he got?

By: kelvin

kelvin — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 12:47:01 +0000

wow, are they sure he didn’t take the painkillers after he got his face crushed, haha!

By: jpm

jpm — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 11:21:10 +0000

The speed he went to sleep, looked like he was on either temazepam or nitrazpan also.

By: Dave5555

Dave5555 — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 09:41:28 +0000

of course these drugs are performance enhancers !!

by taking them, it allows one to compete

not taking them would give the guy a lower ability because of the pain, and pain does not allow for training, or even getting into the ring

By: zac

zac — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:31:14 +0000

thank goodness nobody tests for glue sniffing, or we wouldnt ever get to see Charles Bennett fight again. man i love that guy.

By: Tspence

Tspence — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 04:18:25 +0000

he took it knowing he was getting beaten after some drug dealer told him to go down haha

By: brandon

brandon — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 03:57:02 +0000

Does anyone know what the rules in MMA are about perscribed drugs? I don’t mean a doc perscribing steriods but pain killers being illegal even if perscribed? I can see the argument that it could numb the pain you might feel inside the fight but damn. I’ve hurt my back before and taken pain meds and mine are super weak cause they make me nautious and hell, i couldn’t imagion fighting on them! But I wonder if a doc perscribes them if it’s still concidered a failed test.

What about fighters and prozac or things like that?