Nate Marquardt’s coach weigh’s in on testosterone debate: “His honesty from the beginning’s what hurt him”

Trevor Wittman, the head trainer of former UFC middleweight Nate Marquardt, has been giving his thoughts on the situation surrounding the fighter following his recent axe from the Las Vegas based promotions ranks, explaining as far as he’s concerned it’s “The Great’s’” honesty that hurt him in the long run.
Speaking via MMAFighting.com, Wittman said:

“Nate Marquardt is a guy who’s never been untruthful with me. Everything that he tells me, and everything he told me going into this fight and back before New Jersey, it’s something that he truly believes in. He went and had his testosterone checked. And when I spoke to him about it, I could tell he really believes he’d done the right thing, because the doctors are telling him, ‘Your levels are low. You need this. This is why you’re tired. We’ll give you this and you’ll perform like you’re young again.’ Man, you start telling a guy that, he’s going to believe you.

“His honesty from the beginning — doing these tests, asking for permission to do this — that’s what hurt him. His honesty got him put in this situation. It’s so hard to watch one of the most honest guys I’ve ever trained — the biggest family man, the guy who signs every autograph — get scolded and cut and lose his career and get this brand on him, all because he felt like he was doing the right thing.”

“I don’t care what you put in your system. I don’t care who you hire to do your nutrition. It comes down to, you got two men in the ring. You might break your hand in there. Well, you’ve got to overcome the broken hand. You might have a bad weight cut and you still have to get the last five pounds off, even if it’s unhealthy. I don’t care. Those are excuses that go out the window the moment the close the cage door. You might have the flu a week and a half before. Fine. This is the fight game. This is what you deal with. You deal with injuries. You deal with illness. You deal with getting older. That’s the game.”

It was only revealed yesterday by Marquardt himself that he stopped his hormone replacement therapy a week out from his proposed fight with Rick Story after his levels of testosterone were sky high. Unfortunately for him it wasn’t until 24 hours after the deadline for his medical that his levels returned to the allowed limit for him to fight.
By Michael Pepper.