When the Nevada Sate Athletic Commission abruptly outlawed testosterone replacement therapy on February 27, 2014, UFC President Dana White said he was overjoyed.
"[I'm] pumped!" White wrote in a text message to MMA Fighting's Ariel Helwani that day, while the fight company issued its own blanket ban on the controversial medical treatment. "Couldn't wait for that garbage to go away."
More than 18 months later, as the fallout from MMA’s TRT era continues to weave a tangled web, one of the few things we can probably still take at face value is White’s genuine, full-hearted relief at being done with it.