Desperate times call for desperate measure, and that’s were Mirko “Cro Cop” Filipovic claims he found himself after suffering the shoulder injury that forced him out of this month’s fight against Anthony Hamilton and into retirement.
Filipovic says he wanted to stay in the bout so badly that he tried everything, including “a various cocktails of drugs” which ultimately caused him to get handed a provisional suspension by the USADA Wednesday for a potential Anti-Doping Policy violation.
As it turns out, Filipovic revealed Thursday that he took human growth hormones, despite the fact he knew it was on the USADA’s banned substances list, with his blood plasma injections in order to help his shoulder heal faster.