Newly retired UFC lightweight Mark Bocek is the latest MMA fighter to say that the PED use in MMA and UFC is far worse than what others may think. Bocek added that this has been the accepted norm saying "I think it's worse than people realize."

He added "I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the way things are going, you kind of deserve to lose if you're not on PEDs nowadays. I used to think of it as cheating, but you can't call it cheating when everyone is doing it. You go in there and lose to someone on PEDs, it's like, what did you expect? Did you think you were going to knock out some guy on PEDs in the highest MMA league in the world? People get away with cheating in the Olympics, which has much stricter testing than in the UFC, so you can imagine what people get away with in the UFC."

Bocek has an impressive UFC record, went out on a win and won three out of his last four bouts. His seven year career in the UFC was good losing only to UFC's best fighters. This clearly shows that He is not sour grapping on the organization for letting out this information.

But Bocek believes that random drug testing do works. He said "All the guys that have gotten random-tested failed. But they cost money, they are expensive. It appears to me like UFC is kind of against drug testing because if we use any of these VADA voluntary doping tests or clinics, these results come out before actual fights, so you don't get to cash in your pay-per-view money. If we stick with the laxed commission testing, all those results come out after the event, so just in my opinion, I don't really think they are for testing."

He added "But yeah, it looks like most people are on drugs and the more successful you are, the more money you have. The more money you have, you get targeted by guys like Victor Conte or some chemist and they'll come up with a drug you can't test for or is undetectable because you have the money for those things."