By Ryan Burton
Victor Conte, founder of the infamouse BALCO Lab, appeared on the latest edition of BoxingScene.com's official radio show - "The Boxing Lab." Conte is currently working with WBO/WBC bantamweight champion Nonito Donaire and he recently worked with champions Andre Berto and Andre Ward.
The famous nutritionist spoke on a variety of topics. One of which was the random blood testing issue, currently preventing a finalized deal for a super-fight between Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Manny Pacquiao, which is potentially the richest fight in boxing history.
Beginning with his fight against Shane Mosley, which took place in May 2012, Mayweather has insisted that he and any opponent that he faces must submit to random blood and urine testing for performance enhancing drugs.
According to Conte, the drug testing protocol used for Mayweather's past two fights were not conducted in the form of Olympic Style testing.
I asked Conte if a fighter could use performance enhancing drugs outside of the standard eight week training camp, and benefit from it, and still pass random drug tests.
Conte's answer - "Yes, you are absolutely correct."
"They only submitted to random drug testing during their training camp so Floyd's two fights were not Olympic Style testing. I don't like that term. Olympic Style testing is 24/7 365 days a year. ," said Conte.
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