Ben Saunders was fucking HIGH

November 29, 2007 – 10:38 am by fightlinker

On Mr Sunshine’s radio show, Ben Saunders talked about how he was ultra-sick and tripping balls off medication for his TUF fight last night. You can listen to the audio here, but the gist of it is that Ben took a bunch of drugs lying around the house from other fighters to try and create a nice combo that would take care of his sickness plus counteract all the different drug side effects. To paraphrase:

“My number one goal was to impress Dana White, and my number two goal was to win the competition. I might have gone in and lost the fight, but I had a feeling like if I hadn’t gone in, my career would have been over.”

Hey, props to Ben Saunders for doing what he felt he had to do to keep his career rolling (even though it was fucking stupid). On the other hand, fuck the UFC for consistantly putting people into a position where they have to do shit like this. It’s situations like this that makes Hermes Franca’s decision to use steroids seem a bit more understandable.