Chael Sonnen appeared today on FOX Sports 1’s “America’s Pregame” and claimed a “transition period” following the end of his testosterone-replacement therapy led to the drug test failure that scratched him from next month’s UFC 175 lineup. Sonnen was accompanied by UFC President Dana White, who appeared earlier on the show and was critical both of the three-time UFC title challenger and the Nevada State Athletic Commission, respectively, for not disclosing his post-TRT regimen and not preparing fighters for competition after TRT. “This thing has been bad since Day One, I wish the commission never let anybody use TRT, and when it went away, they didn’t do a very good job of figuring out how to get these guys off it,” White said of the controversial hormone therapy, which the NSAC and other commission banned in February. “When you get off it, you don’t just go cold turkey.” Sonnen failed a drug test ordered by the NSAC , which this past fall gave the fighter a therapeutic-use exemption to use doctor-prescribed testosterone before the eventual ban
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With UFC boss, Chael Sonnen offers justification for failed drug test, plans appeal – MMA Junkie