Ken Shamrock Tests Positive For Steroids, Suspended One Year
Ken Shamrock
The California State Athletic Commission on Wednesday suspended Ken Shamrock for one year after the veteran fighter tested positive for multiple steroids following his first-round submission of Ross Clifton on February 13th in Fresno, California. The win was Shamrock’s first in nearly five years.
Shamrock’s suspension runs until February 1, 2010 and he also faces a $2,500 fine after testing positive for Norandrosterone, Noretiocholanolone, and Stanozolol. Norandrosterone and Noretiocholanolone are metabolites of the commonly used anabolic steroid nandrolone, while Stanozolol is another commonly used performance enhancer.
“The World’s Most Dangerous Man” was slated to square off with former professional wrestler Bobby Lashley in the MMA main event of “March Badness,” a hybrid boxing/MMA event scheduled for March 21st in Pensacola, Florida.
Shamrock has the right to appeal the suspension and will reportedly do so, according to Sherdog, who spoke with his attorney, Rod Donohoo.
“Ken was taking legal over-the-counter products, and based upon our preliminary research, I’m investigating if those products were the result of these findings,” said Donohoo. “Ken is willing to submit to immediate testing in Sacramento to prove his innocence.”
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As if his legacy wasn’t tainted by all the recent losses… now he adds this to it… Ken Shammy Shamm… FTL
Ken Shammy Shamm tested positive for steriods, what in his thought process made him believe that he needed to use these things? Did you see who he fought, is his legacy soo far tarnished by his recent losses that even taking a fight of this magnitude would even help his legacy.. This just seriously confuses me.. I don’t even know where to begin with how retarded Ken Shammy Shamm is by doing this, I guess now we won’t have to be too worried about Shammy getting killed by Lashley….
Royce also tested positive quite awhile back and that still confuses me
i recently met Ken when he came into my store and i was talking to my assistant and we did discuss how big Ken was in real life. haha i guess we know how a 40 something stays that big at his age.
lol
I think this is what most people call rock bottom.
This is genius. I wouldn’t want to fight lashley either. He made a big pay cheque on his last fight, pays back $2500, takes a one year vacation. Not fighting lashley is reason enough… Everyone knows he did roids in WWE…
how about making the steroids LEGAL LOL!!!
WHATS THE WORST THAT COULD HAPPEN?
WE WOULD BE RID OF ALL THAT PAIN IN THE BRAIN TESTS.
IF SOMEONE WANTS TO TAKE THE RISK, LET THEM.
WE SHOULD BE INVESTIGATING WHICH STEROIDS ARE SAFE INSTEAD!
the correct answer there is none if you cant fight on your own ability get out of the sport no one needs steroids unless they cant cut it just like ken
Ken Shamrock is apparently content with becoming a running joke as opposed to a pioneer in mixed martial arts. Way to go, Ken.
haha i guess we know how a 40 something stays that big at his age. Ken is willing to submit to immediate testing in Sacramento to prove his innocence.
hahahahahha, what a joke Shamrock has become. I wonder what his “brother” thinks of him now.
No joke, if he thought Shammy embarrassed the family name for the Kimbo fight incident, would LOVE to hear what he has to say about this.
I CAN’T stand Tito Ortiz, but every time I re-watch the TUF series with those two I love seeing Ortiz get that idioit going… and even more enjoy watching Shamrock get his a$$ beat.
Dude just go away from MMA alredy, your like what..in your late 40’s or 50’s. Your making a fool of yourself just go do something else.
One year ban – that’s all? Far too many fighters use drugs and get ridiculously short bans. In other sports they are far longer. Imagine if someone get’s seriously injured or even killed & it was found out later their opponent was drugged up – MMA is turning a blind eye to major drug use.
in football you get suspended for 4 games (one month). in baseball you get suspended for 50 games (1/3 of a season). by comparison, one year is a long time. i know i can’t afford a year off of work. what i have to wonder is if we are all going to act surprised when the steroid scandal breaks in basketball, because not one journalist is even considering that it will happen. and i am so sick of the term “steroid era”. steroids have been around sports since the 1950’s. are we all so stupid as to think that they weren’t used in baseball until 1998? that’s ridiculous.
(no personal attacks -Justin)
Seriously though is this really a surprise? I think Ken was never NOT on steroids. 3 of them being discovered at once means he didn’t even try to cover them up. Maybe he thought he wasn’t going to be tested? I’m not sure but this is becoming a gross issue in MMA. I don’t think a 1 year ban is good enough anymore. Look at guys like Thiago Alves, Hermes Franca, Sherk (even though I kinda believe Sherks innocence, but in the chance I’m wrong)and Tim Sylvia have all been found guilty of abusing Steroids and have made huge gains in their careers even after the fact. Alves is now fighting for the title, and Sylvia captured the title afterwards. You also have Stephan Bonnar, Ken Shammy, Royce Gracie, Chris Leban and others that serve their time but them come back with little real recourse.
This one is really pathetic. revoke his license already and let us forget about Shamrock.
Alves got busted for a diuretic that is sometimes used to mask steroids, not steroids. All those fighters lost time of fighting, which means loss of pay. They may have been dropped by some of their sponsors, which means more loss of pay. They forever have that stigma on them as a cheater. In Bonnar’s case he was relegated to the undercard for his first couple of fights back. Franca has not been back to the prominence that he held before the positive test, Bonnar has been out for other reasons. Time will tell what happens with Leben. Sylvia was also stripped of the belt
Lets think about this though, what’s going to happen to A-Rod? Shawne Merriman was only suspended 4 games by the NFL and returned to action, even made the pro-bowl. In cycling, the sport with the most strict doping regulations, Floyd Landis is back to racing two years after failing a drug test on the way to winning the Tour de France. (He was also stripped of the victory.)
That stigma while bad still puts their name out there and gets them recognition. That whole no publicity is bad publicity. Bonnar came back decked from head to toe in TapouT gear after his return. Franca was scheduled to be headliner for a UFN event. Sylvia had the belt stripped, but returned after fighting a bum and had a title fight, Sherk came right back for a title fight, Alves has def. earned his way to the shot at the belt but even still is a 1 year suspension and a fine enough punishment to prevent people from continuing trying to cheat?
Football and baseball and all other sports are irrelevant because the boxing commission cannot pass any fine or penalty on them, they can on MMA fighters.
Nothing will happen to A-Rod, he will be in the HOF right next to Bonds, McGwire, Sosa, and the list goes on. Merriman got a lovely slap on the wrist, but then again the NFL loves criminals. Look at the talks of bringing Michael Vick back into the league! Olympians, cyclists. gymnastics, boxing, pretty much every sport including golf using performance enhancing drugs. It’s even in Hollywood (Stallone busted in Australia for HGH). But back on topic, a year suspension is the right call for 1st offense. Once a fighter has tested positive, he/she should be on the list for testing on every fight they have. 2nd offense, should have fighting license revoked.
My point in mentioning football, baseball and cycling was to provide a reference point for the harshness of the penalties for ‘roiding in MMA vs. other sports. You say that a year off and some fines is not harsh enough, yet based on what I see, that is the second harshest penalty out of all sports, especially on a first time offense.
Now, I have a question for you, since you want to stir the pot by saying that the punishment isn’t stiff enough. What do you want the penalty to be? Do you want them banned for life? It seems like you do, in saying about Shamrock to revoke his license.
I think to the level that Shamrock was involved in substance abuse, yes he should be banned for life from fighting. If the guy is willing to take 3 different banned drugs in order to enhance his performance then he is a danger to himself and others inside the ring.
Franca and Bonnar both took banned substances in order to fight through injuries and in an attempt to preform at a level beyond their injury. This is extremely dangerous to themselves. I agree that they should be placed on permanent probation and be included in drug test screening for the rest of their careers, and if a single failure arises then revoke their licenses permanently.
I don’t think there can be a single punishment answer though because each case is different. But it is at least apparent that the fines and suspensions are not suppressing the usage. While some may argue that today Ken Shamrock is not a big name and his use does little to tarnish the sports image, it just doesn’t help it. And in just 3 years time we have seen Bonnar, Leban, Shamrock,Sherk, Overeem, Sidelnikov, Marquardt, Royce Gracie, Antonio Silva, Edwin Dewees, Dennis Hallman, James Irvin, and others. That is a long list, some big names, some huge names, some nobodies, but my point is that there doesn’t seem to be a big push away from usage and *maybe* harsher penalties would be required.
They do have varying degrees of penalty, Sherk as suspended for a shorter period of time than Franca (I think), Leben was suspended only for 9 months, Shamrock is getting 12, “Bigfoot” got 12. Yes it is bad that people are using, and it doesn’t look good for the sport, but they are getting caught, and they are getting punished. They are getting punished at a higher level than athletes in the “four majors” that get caught for the same thing. I did some research to find out some details on Tim Sylvia’s suspension before my first reply to you, and in that research I found an interview where Sylvia said that he heard about Barnett using (and getting busted) and that actually led him to try them, he hoped he could get off them soon enough that they wouldn’t show in his tests. Obviously he failed at that, and in the interview he said it was stupid and he learned from his mistake.
In regards to the punishments, punishments seem to vary from AC to AC, maybe vary based on type and amount of steroid. I don’t know either way if they get tested from one failed test forward, but I think it is safe to assume that is the case. Please don’t take this the wrong way, but it seems like you are complaining to complain. You are saying “this isn’t enough punishment” but you haven’t offered an alternative, except in the case of saying that Shammy Shamm should get his license revoked.
*side note- Irvin got busted for pain meds, like Karo, not steroids.
Merriman getting suspended for 4 games – that’s 1/4 of the NFL season, far worse than happens in most every other professional sport in the US.
MLB bans for 50 games for a first offense.
NFL is 4 games
NBA is 2 games I think, but they’re currently considering moving to the Olympic level of 2 YEARS
MMA bans for a year
As well, MMA fighters are paid for their fights, they’re not guaranteed contracts like a lot of other professional sports.
2 games – 2 years… that’s a massive jump, but as far as I’m concerned they could ban the whole NBA for 2 years and I wouldn’t miss it, unless it somehow adversely affected college ball.
It could very well be that he did take some over-the-counter supplement that contained the two steroids in question (nandrolone and stanazolol). Unfortunately, short of testing an actual sample of the supplement, there is no way to prove DEFINITIVELY (note emphasis) systematic doping vs. accidentally grabbing the wrong thing off the shelf at GNC.
As far as other sports: the weakest ones are in the NFL, where actually, they have to test positively TWICE to merit a suspension (the first one they end up getting the equivalent of probation). And of course, just about everyone is on some form of amphetamine in baseball and most likely football. The problem lies in the fact that some of the common stimulants/amphetamines are also used to treat ADHD, which is why so many baseball players “suffer” from that disorder. Either way, there will always be an out. It’s just a matter of how many lazy/naive athletes get caught.
i think shammy should get his liscense revoked, not for steroids, but for the same reason Syliva, and Riddick Bowe should be revoked. They suck at fighting now so just steping into the ring/octagon is a danger to them, and they are jobbers and have no chance of putting on an entertaining fight.
Were you realy suprised. Just look at some of his old photo.
it only took 25 years to prove shamrock does steroids??…
Shammy = loooooooooosssssssseeeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrr!
he took roids and STILL lost to tito?
what a jabroni
When are these athletes going to get smart?
There is no test for HGH…..
Why are they even messing with steroids??
Technically, there is. The difference is that it is a blood test, not a whiz quiz. That’s why you don’t hear more about athletes testing positive for HGH outside of cycling or other places where blood testing is standard.