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Why Travis Tygart and the USADA are bad for boxing
Why Travis Tygart and the USADA are bad for boxing
May 22, 3:47 PMDallas Boxing ExaminerMatt Stolow
I get the impression Travis Tygart wouldn't throw Floyd Mayweather a life jacket if he were drowning unless Mayweather had professed his allegiance to Tygart's United States Anti-Doping Agency.
I get that feeling for Golden Boy Promotions toward Mayweather also if they weren't, well, that's for another column.
Tygart seems to be a posturing phony to me. He seems like he lives in the gutter of the red light district intersection of sports and illegal drugs.
What he seems to me is, clearly, an opportunist in a cheap suit with a few polished lines of talk that will get him on TV.
After making such a big deal about his righteousness, he doesn't even blood test Mayweather nor Shane Mosley for the last 18 and 19 days respectively before their May 1st fight!
But he calls them "clean athletes." I believe Manny Pacquiao will get a knock on his door to give blood at the 11th hour and probably a request for some comp tickets at the same time. OK, maybe no comp tickets but you can sense I don't trust this guy as far as I can throw him.
He's not the only game in town. If we are to do this, lets get out the phone book or yellowpages.com and find someone else without a media-conscious track record, who's not concerned with their own public relations to further themselves when they should be doing their jobs and not attracting attention to themselves.
Guys like Travis Tygart are their own worse enemies and they will never learn so why allow them at the highest levels of our sport in the first place after seeing what they did with cycling where they were to have some expertise.
In one swoop Manny Pacquiao, by agreeing to be tested 14 days out, has called the USADA's and Mayweather's bluff and made the accusers look like frauds because it seems they want to back out of the deal.
May 22, 3:47 PMDallas Boxing ExaminerMatt Stolow
I get the impression Travis Tygart wouldn't throw Floyd Mayweather a life jacket if he were drowning unless Mayweather had professed his allegiance to Tygart's United States Anti-Doping Agency.
I get that feeling for Golden Boy Promotions toward Mayweather also if they weren't, well, that's for another column.
Tygart seems to be a posturing phony to me. He seems like he lives in the gutter of the red light district intersection of sports and illegal drugs.
What he seems to me is, clearly, an opportunist in a cheap suit with a few polished lines of talk that will get him on TV.
After making such a big deal about his righteousness, he doesn't even blood test Mayweather nor Shane Mosley for the last 18 and 19 days respectively before their May 1st fight!
But he calls them "clean athletes." I believe Manny Pacquiao will get a knock on his door to give blood at the 11th hour and probably a request for some comp tickets at the same time. OK, maybe no comp tickets but you can sense I don't trust this guy as far as I can throw him.
He's not the only game in town. If we are to do this, lets get out the phone book or yellowpages.com and find someone else without a media-conscious track record, who's not concerned with their own public relations to further themselves when they should be doing their jobs and not attracting attention to themselves.
Guys like Travis Tygart are their own worse enemies and they will never learn so why allow them at the highest levels of our sport in the first place after seeing what they did with cycling where they were to have some expertise.
In one swoop Manny Pacquiao, by agreeing to be tested 14 days out, has called the USADA's and Mayweather's bluff and made the accusers look like frauds because it seems they want to back out of the deal.
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