Kamaru Usman Responds to PED Use Accusations

It's funny to me because I get it all the time now. Of course. Like people accuse me all the time and I haven't really told the story. But so one day I saw like people kept tagging me in this video and there was this some fucking guy, some dumb ass that's on YouTube that swears he can spot people that do, you know, P.D.'s. Oh, it's probably more plates, more dates. Maybe. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, that's, uh, Derek. He's been on the podcast before. Yeah. So he's like, yeah, I know that guy's doing it because I can see the marks on him and stuff like that. And so he starts to point, they start pointing out because I have like five scars on my stomach, like, you know, like burn, like discoloration on my stomach. And he starts, they point at that and he starts talking about it and making up this whole theory. And it kind of, it kind of hurt my feelings a little bit because it could make you happy. I was, okay, so here's the story. I was a little self-conscious about it because so this is what happened. I was in college. This was my, I want to say junior year, sophomore junior year, going into my junior season. And, um, actually I think it was after my junior season. So I, I started getting knees. I got it like a mole on like my stomach and I got one like on my, my hand and I, I'm one of those, I'm kind of like a clean freak. Like I shower, you know, after practice right away. So I started scratching it and then it starts bleeding. So I'm like, fuck, that's not a regular. I thought it was like a pimple. That's not a regular, like a zit or something like that. So then I, you know, over time it was like, maybe it was like five little was like tiny. You could barely see them. So I'm like, you know what? I'm going to ask the doc. We have a team doctor. I'm going to ask him about it. So I went in for a physical and then I went before the season and I asked him, Hey, you know, I have this right here. I don't know what they are. So he looks at him and he goes, Oh, these are non-cancerous moles. They're just little bitty moles. You know, it's very, very common. I'm like, shit, not for me. I don't know. It's common for me. He's like, yeah, they're very common. I'm like, yeah, well, how can I get rid of them? I tried to scratch them and they bleed and he's like, yeah, you don't do that. What we could do is I can burn them off. And I'm like, OK, fuck it. Let's do it. Because a spring break was going to come up. Like I started. I started. I started. I started. I'm lifting. I got a body now. You know, I'm a junior and I look jacked. So I'm like, spring break is coming. I want to look jacked. I want to look good. You know, so I don't get walking around with those fuck no. So he's like, I can burn them off. He burns them off with I think nitrogen or something like that. So he burns them and then he goes, hey, those are going to fall off in a couple of days, you know, just give him time. So I'm like, OK, but I was so like I was still training heavily during the summer because I was just like an addict of wrestling. I wanted to for me, I wanted to get catch up to everybody and I wanted to exceed everybody. So this was my time the summer that that was my time for me to catch up. So my dumbass, I go back to the next day, I go to school and back to the school and I go in and I go drill. I go wrestle. I couldn't stop. I was just training all summer. So I wrestled. And I didn't think anything of it. I was like, OK, they just burned those, but nothing has happened yet. And so I wrestled. And then later that evening, I'm sitting in my I go, I get down, I get in the shower and I'm showering all of a sudden, just burning down there. And I look down and I had like scraped them off like so. As soon as he burned him, he said, don't do anything. They're going to fall off on their own. But my dumbass wrestled and it rammed up against it. And now they all fell off. So then they scarred it because now I was like out for like seven days, like putting Neosport on it just so they can heal. And then they scarred over. So I have those from just that moment. So then this fucking guy is like, oh, he's doing PDS. Look, look, he's got the marks on his stomach and it hurt my feelings. I'm like, I'm like one of those guys who I'm like, I don't even think about PDS because my work, even if I don't care, I probably have dealt with someone that was cheating or competed against someone that was cheating. But my work will far exceed all of that. And so when I see idiots online or say, oh, yeah, I know for a fact he's doing PD. I'm like, have you ever been to fucking Africa? Have you been in Africa? There's a lot of Francis Ngano's walking around. There's a lot of guys like me just walking around. And because of the work and because of the way that I fight, they're like, oh, no, he's definitely got to be doing something because they can't explain why you are the way you are, why your performance exceeds what their mind is mentally capable of. There's a photo of you where on top of the cage after one of the victories, you're like this, like, it looks preposterous. Like if I didn't know any better, I'd be like that motherfuckers on some shit. Genetics are real, man. Genetics are real. Everybody did not get the same deck of cards. Oh, yeah. Yeah, that one. Look at that one. Come on, son. If I saw that shit, if someone said, do you think this guy's on the juice, I'm like, highly likely. Yeah, adrenaline. And I think this is right after the Masvidal fight.