Welcome to SB Nation’s ‘Decade Of Change’ series. We’ll present a series of articles throughout the week, representing every sport. Each one is authored by a blogger from within our vast network and will outline various aspects of their favorite league they’d like to see changed by the end of the new decade. Now up: MMA, authored by Brent Brookhouse, editor of SBNation.com’s MMA page and contributor to Bloody Elbow.
Decade Of Change: MMA’s Continued Growth Relies On Several Key Alterations
No. 1: Olympic Style Blood Tests
The truth is, steroids are a massive problem in sports. And I don’t only mean athletes actually being on them, but speculation of who is and isn’t. Look at what happened in boxing over the past few weeks. There has never been any actual evidence tying Manny Pacquiao to steroids, only the Mayweather family deciding that he must be using to be as good as he is. That alone resulted in the fight of the century for boxing falling apart.
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