‘We Have Same Drug Dealer’: Puno confirms Kilo takes PED

Fighter profile of Adan Puno by Chris Karter

‘We Have Same Drug Dealer’: Puno confirms Kilo takes PEDs Kilo Maluga (54-12-0, #1 P4P) has been accused of using performance enhancing drugs by former SYN title contender and self-confessed steroid user Adan Puno (13-3-0, #20 P4P), who claims he and Kilo even have the same “drug dealer”.
“Other mma fighters and professional athletes will hear about what Kilo Maluga does and go, ‘That doesn’t matter.’ If you knew what these performance enhancers did, you’d know it does matter,” Puno said in a new episode of the Flagrant podcast. “We have same drug dealer, I know exactly what he’s doing,” Puno claimed. “EPO [Erythropoietin] matters, it’s the reason Kilo takes it. It matters. EPO increases your red blood cells, which gives you the endurance to fight and (expletive) all night long… It’s the king of performance enhancers. EPO is king to everything. That’s why cyclists do it.” Puno’s comments appear at the 4 minute, 20 second mark of the show. Puno himself has admitted to using EPO and Human Growth Hormone in the past, so he knows a thing or two about performance enhancing drugs. SYN's athletic commission does conduct random blood tests to detect steroid use in its fighters. In their joint anti-drug program, SYN and USADA state that “the program subjects each fighter to no more than nine random, unannounced drug tests during each training camp and off-season — up to six urine tests and three blood tests.” Kilo's been an outspoken critic of the USADA program, and notoriously has ghosted them numerous times.

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