Chael Sonnen did more to hype a fight than anyone in MMA in 2010, and he and Anderson Silva provided MMA fans with what may have been the best fight of the year. But all the pre-fight trash talk, and that great fight in the Octagon, was overshadowed a couple weeks later when we learned that Sonnen had failed his UFC 117 drug test.Sonnen getting busted was the story of the year in MMA because of the way it overshadowed that great fight, because it canceled what would have been a lucrative Silva-Sonnen rematch, and most importantly because it shined a bright light on performance-enhancing drugs in MMA.
Unfortunately, what that bright light showed is that state athletic commissions aren't equipped to appropriately handle fighters failing drug tests. Sonnen showed up to a hearing of the California State Athletic Commission, said his high ratio of testosterone to epitestosterone was the result of doctor-prescribed testosterone replacement therapy, and was given a reduced suspension of six months. The California commission was clearly unprepared for the hearing, and it still isn't clear whether Sonnen and other fighters will be permitted to use testosterone with a doctor's note going forward.
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Source: http://www.mmafighting.com/2010/12/29/story-of-the-year-chael-sonnen-busted/
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