Holly Holm has been a boxing champion in several divisions, a world-class kick boxer and is now the UFC women’s bantamweight champion. Despite that, there are some people that will instantly point to steroids as a reason for her victory over Rousey; ignoring her long list of skills and accomplishments.
I’m a firm believer that styles make fights and that Holly was stylistically challenging for Ronda Rousey but when someone presents a valid argument to support their allegations it at least deserves a listen.
In the video, the anonymous (first red flag) man does make a few valid points. He has a good understanding of the positive effects of anabolic steroids and their subsequent side effects. He is also spot on when describing the physical alterations they make to a female’ body when taken over time.
With that being said, during the process of dehydration a women’s body can go thru many changes and fluctuations. The signs that he is pointing out ca do as much with being extremely dehydrated for the weight cut or limiting crabs during training camp in order to enter the fight at your leanest.
The UFC has a pretty strong drug testing policy in place, especially for fights in the United States, so the chance of Holly Holm passing all of her drug test would be slim if she was in fact abusing a steroid. These allegations will continue to arise because we’ve seen too many athletes we thought were clean test positive, but in no way should we assume every new UFC champion is on the juice.
This is a sport where belts change hands regularly and in every fight you are facing a fighter that is a specialist in an area of mixed martial arts. Ronda ran into a fighter that had the perfect skill set to defeat her and she has to get better. Until Holly gets popped for a bad test she must remain innocent.
