By Mark Vester
Derryl Hudson, the former strenght and conditioning coach of Shane Mosley, claims that he, along with convicted BALCO president Victor Conte, watched Mosley inject himself with the endurance-boosting drug EPO a few weeks before his 2003 rematch with Oscar De La Hoya. Mosley won the rematch with a late rally to clinch a close unanimous decision. Hudson made the allegations in court papers filed on Friday.
Last September, Mosley told The Los Angeles Times that he "unknowingly"used the undetectable steroids from the infamous BALCO lab.
"I didn't understand it to be blood doping, I was told it would keep my [red] blood cells high," Mosley said. "I didn't know the extent of this. To be honest, I didn't care to have it, but [Hudson] kept saying this stuff was great, and described it as 'icing on the cake,' because when you work as hard as I do, you need something to help you recover. Like vitamins, I thought."
Hudson took exception to Mosley's comments and sued the fighter in February for defamation and making false allegations, stating that Mosley was fully aware of what he was taking and the benefits.
“Mr. Mosley admitted to me that he knew the drugs provided to him by Mr. Conte were illegal performance-enhancing drugs,” Hudson said, according to the papers.
Mosley also has a pending defamation lawsuit against Conte, claiming the former BALCO founder lied to lied to reporters last year when he claimed that Mosley knowingly purchased and used banned drugs. Mosley testified before a grand jury investigating BALCO and said that he was misled by Conte into believing he was injecting legal supplements.
“I explicity sought and received Conte’s assurance that everything he was recommending was entirely legal and authorized for use in my sport,” Mosley said in a court filing.
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