He’s been tested regularly so it takes a degree of brazenness to accuse Conor McGregor of taking performance enhancing drugs.
‘The Notorious’ has posted pictures on more than one occasion of USADA agents randomly testing him, but that hasn’t stopped the Nate Diaz camp from levelling serious allegations of wrong-doing at the Irishman.
And just like that an army of scientists show up at the gaf. #RandomDrugTest #USADA #SorryImLateCoach pic.twitter.com/mAHvqtfrJ7
— Conor McGregor (@TheNotoriousMMA) January 25, 2016
Diaz seemed to get under McGregor’s skin during their first press conference last month when he, in no uncertain terms, accused the UFC featherweight champion of using steroids. And Diaz’s boxing coach Richard Perez has carried that belief into the post-fight fallout.
In a radio interview over the weekend, Diaz said he believed he had gotten into McGregor’s head in the build-up to UFC 196.
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“Oh yeah, heck yeah, when he told him he was on steroids, I mean he blew up on that,” Perez told Submission Radio. “If it would have been me, I would have been laughing. If I was fighting Nathan and he said, ‘Oh hey you’re on steroids’ and I’m not on steroids, I would have laughed about it. I would have said, ‘Hey give me some more.’
“When somebody is guilty about something, they stand up and get their defences up about it. That’s my point of view, I don’t know about anybody else, that’s my point of view.”
When asked to explain his theory, Perez pointed to the lack of fat on ‘The Notorious’ at the weigh-ins ahead of the March 5th event.
Perez continued: “Just by watching a guy come up from 145 to 170, you’re going to have some fat on you, believe me, you’re going to have some fat, somewhere. Around your waist, somewhere. He didn’t have any fat at all. He was solid muscle.
“How are you going to build that much in two weeks and be solid muscle? You know what I’m saying? Because he was supposed to fight at 155, but he was already overweight, I know he was.
So when he found out that [Rafael dos Anjos] hurt his ankle, he called Nathan out at 170 so that tells me right there that he couldn’t get down to weight because something is making him build up.”
