Chael Sonnen on TRT: “I would never take anything if I didn’t think it would help me.”

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It’s TRT Wednesday over here at Fighthub supposedly, first Vitor Belfort clears the air now Chael Sonnen is taking us back a few years to finally set straight his supposedly “elevated” testosterone at UFC 117, when he came within a minute of defeating Anderson Silva.

In this interview with Bleacher Report, Chael basically says he took tesosterone to get an edge, which is technically 100% true. Of course he did, would he take it to slow him down? The real newsworthy quote here is the fact that it was his paperwork, that was incomplete, being the problem, not anything having to do with elevated testosterone.

“It’s a legal substance versus a banned substance. Don’t say performance enhancing, that’s what this is, we don’t take things to bring us down,” Sonnen stated.  “That’s called malpractice in this country.  All medication is meant to enhance us in America.

“I took testosterone that was perfectly legal, and I did not have elevated levels.  I wasn’t even accused of that.  The media did that to me.”

“That is inaccurate.  I didn’t have high levels (of testosterone), I had a separated T to E (testosterone to epitestosterone) ratio, which is not illegal,” Sonnen stated.  “I was in trouble for the disclosure issue and they gave me six months.

“Testosterone’s not illegal, which we all found out. It’s perfectly legal.  I followed all the rules as I understood them and yes, I took it to get an edge.  I would never take anything if I didn’t think it would help me.”

And like that, for once Chael is completely honest and ironically he’ll probably get lambasted for this.