Comments Thread For: BoxingScene’s 2012 Year End Awards: Event of the Year

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

By Cliff Rold - Lamont Peterson. Andre Berto. Erik Morales.

Busted.

Lamont Peterson-Amir Khan II: off.

Victor Ortiz-Andre Berto II: off

Danny Garcia-Erik Morales II: if at first you don’t test clean, try and try again. The show must go on.

Welcome to boxing in 2012 as the performance enhancing drug (P.E.D.) issue struck like a Barry Bonds shot into the drink with results that illuminated and indicted the game in ways that had been avoided for far too long. Positive tests, journalist/promoter feuds, accusations, insinuations, politics, and mountains of evidence both real and circumstantial: it was the story that kept on giving.

The runaway choice at BoxingScene for 2012 event of the year was clear: P.E.D.rama reigned.

Let’s unbury any heads left in the sand. P.E.D. use isn’t new in boxing. There are rumors about big name fighters, and around big fights, dating back at least two decades. That doesn’t include the verified incidents.

Roy Jones-Richard Hall had both fighters test positive on initial samples in 2000.

Fernando Vargas was busted after his 2002 defeat to Oscar De La Hoya. Shane Mosley tested clean but was later found to have used before his Oscar De La Hoya rematch in 2003. Orlando Salido lost a win over Robert Guerrero in 2006 when he tested positive.
Boxing’s lack of real governance made it easy to isolate the incidents and move along. Token suspensions and fines were levied and then Floyd Mayweather kicked off a new direction. His insistence in negotiations with Manny Pacquiao in 2009/10 for what was incorrectly described as Olympic style testing (it wouldn’t have been all year random) set the stage. The US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA)/Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency (VADA) debate of 2012 was one element of an evolving specter. [Click Here To Read More]

[Weltschmerz]

Antonio Tarver?

[BattlingNelson]

Nice outline of the major stories on the PED mess of 2012. The development of this must make everybody who loves the sport feel concerned about the future.

How the hell can this mess be fixed when seemingly noone who has power is concerned as long as the cash keeps rolling in?

One can only hope that it doesn't take a high profile fatality to make the powers that be act.

[Lorily]

Originally Posted by WladimirK

Antonio Tarver?

Exactly what I was wondering, too. The media and the industry as a whole has been oddly silent about the whole issue with Tarver. He just goes off in to obscurity and everything just goes away and is never mentioned again? What gives??

[crold1]

Originally Posted by Lorily

Exactly what I was wondering, too. The media and the industry as a whole has been oddly silent about the whole issue with Tarver. He just goes off in to obscurity and everything just goes away and is never mentioned again? What gives??

I just forgot to include his bust. It wasn't as high profile as the others but merited a mention.

[joe strong]

tarver lost his good job with showtime too so it was a double whammy for him...

[carmelomodica]

He glassed me.

[IdNod4u2]

Originally Posted by BIGPOPPAPUMP

By Cliff Rold - Lamont Peterson. Andre Berto. Erik Morales.

Busted.

Lamont Peterson-Amir Khan II: off.

Victor Ortiz-Andre Berto II: off

Danny Garcia-Erik Morales II: if at first you don’t test clean, try and try again. The show must go on.

Welcome to boxing in 2012 as the performance enhancing drug (P.E.D.) issue struck like a Barry Bonds shot into the drink with results that illuminated and indicted the game in ways that had been avoided for far too long. Positive tests, journalist/promoter feuds, accusations, insinuations, politics, and mountains of evidence both real and circumstantial: it was the story that kept on giving.

The runaway choice at BoxingScene for 2012 event of the year was clear: P.E.D.rama reigned.

Let’s unbury any heads left in the sand. P.E.D. use isn’t new in boxing. There are rumors about big name fighters, and around big fights, dating back at least two decades. That doesn’t include the verified incidents.

Roy Jones-Richard Hall had both fighters test positive on initial samples in 2000.

Fernando Vargas was busted after his 2002 defeat to Oscar De La Hoya. Shane Mosley tested clean but was later found to have used before his Oscar De La Hoya rematch in 2003. Orlando Salido lost a win over Robert Guerrero in 2006 when he tested positive.
Boxing’s lack of real governance made it easy to isolate the incidents and move along. Token suspensions and fines were levied and then Floyd Mayweather kicked off a new direction. His insistence in negotiations with Manny Pacquiao in 2009/10 for what was incorrectly described as Olympic style testing (it wouldn’t have been all year random) set the stage. The US Anti-Doping Agency (USADA)/Voluntary Anti-Doping Agency (VADA) debate of 2012 was one element of an evolving specter. [Click Here To Read More]

Isnt it funny how everyones "getting serious" on this issue now, after the downfall of Manny Pacquiao?

Where was all the attention or "seriousness" during the "rise" of Manny Pacquiao? Even though a fighter by the name of Floyd Mayweather (the most well known name in boxing) was on his soap box with a bullhorn.

Hated guy yells,"tests are weak, lets make these tests stricter!"

Fans,"shut the hell up your scared!"

Nice guy gets knocked the hell out (put to sleep).

Fans and media,"we need to start testing these guys better"....lmao

[crold1]

Originally Posted by IdNod4u2

Isnt it funny how everyones "getting serious" on this issue now, after the downfall of Manny Pacquiao?

Where was all the attention or "seriousness" during the "rise" of Manny Pacquiao? Even though a fighter by the name of Floyd Mayweather (the most well known name in boxing) was on his soap box with a bullhorn.

Hated guy yells,"tests are weak, lets make these tests stricter!"

Fans,"shut the hell up your scared!"

Nice guy gets knocked the hell out (put to sleep).

Fans and media,"we need to start testing these guys better"....lmao

Did you miss the part where I talked about HBO's ranting irony.

[IdNod4u2]

Originally Posted by crold1

Did you miss the part where I talked about HBO's ranting irony.

Not at all. Simply a reiteration for the literately challenged in the hopes of corroborating your eloquent thread.