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Wow, I just found this from the same place as that Margarito article I posted, it's a great read:
(Excerpt: Las Vegas Times, 'Is Money May the Million Dollar Man?')
Floyd Mayweather has seemingly mulled retirement for years now. Only the very biggest fights could find the boxer motivated to fight- garnering him the name 'Money'. Medical documents recently attained from an unnamed source at the Nevada state boxing commission tell a very different, very strange, story.
Apparently, starting in 2000, after a fight with Emmanuel Augustus Floyd Mayweather and friend Leonard Ellerbee visited the Switzerland San Raffaele Scientific Institute; a clinic long known for its experimental gene therapy and stem cell research. The young boxer met with a consultant of Dr. Yunpok-Du-Heim concerning the possibility of receiving injections of experimental genes.
Unlike such substances as Anabolic steroids, which are banned in boxing, gene therapy is such a new science there were no current medical guidelines at the time of Mayweather's visit to the Institute.
That December, two months after his initial visit, Floyd received a spinal injection treatment and gene bath that the San Raffaele Scientific Institute presents as doing the following:
Fast twitch muscle fibers are known to control the ability for muscles to contract quickly- in other words, controlling speed. Our new experimental gene treatment genetically enhances a patients fast twitch muscles. Rather than focusing on enhancing slow-twitch fibers, enhancing fast-twitch muscle fibers has been seen to drastically increase endurance and speed.
Using our patented- genetic enhancement, test subjects have seen reaction time in simple motor tests increase from .5 of a second to .003 of a second for the same fast-twitch response.
Basically, genetically enhancing fast twitch fibers through our treatment puts a patient's muscles in a constant state of increased-repair, as if no damage or use ever occurs.
Floyd began receiving the institute's gene therapy treatments before his legendary fight with Diego Corrales - and another trip to Switzerland in August of 2002, a few months before his second fight with Jose Luis Castillo, coincide with an increased performance in the rematch; in which observers found Floyd to be faster and sharper.
In October 2007 the Nevada state boxing commission began a formal investigation into the legal and athletic ramifications of Floyd's unusual gene treatments. Burt Ryans, a ringside physician for the commission, had a few choice words on the matter, "Anyone who watches Mayweather fight knows he's too fast- and we've known why for years and been unable to nail the cheating bastard. He goes over to Europe and injects himself with Cheetah genes. Seriously- he's no longer a regular, human athlete. If boxers can't use steroids I think we should strip all of Floyd's achievements since his first gene injection!"
The official review threatened to become public and damage Floyd's reputation following his victory against Ricky Hatton- at which time Mayweather decided to retire. No investigation is pending for fighters who are no longer officially active in the sport. Ironically, Floyd, long known for brittle bones, may be suffering from a side effect of the gene-therapy that drains calcium production from the body in alarming rates.
The status of Mayweather's medical clearance would be pending investigation should he choose to return.
(Excerpt: Las Vegas Times, 'Is Money May the Million Dollar Man?')
Floyd Mayweather has seemingly mulled retirement for years now. Only the very biggest fights could find the boxer motivated to fight- garnering him the name 'Money'. Medical documents recently attained from an unnamed source at the Nevada state boxing commission tell a very different, very strange, story.
Apparently, starting in 2000, after a fight with Emmanuel Augustus Floyd Mayweather and friend Leonard Ellerbee visited the Switzerland San Raffaele Scientific Institute; a clinic long known for its experimental gene therapy and stem cell research. The young boxer met with a consultant of Dr. Yunpok-Du-Heim concerning the possibility of receiving injections of experimental genes.
Unlike such substances as Anabolic steroids, which are banned in boxing, gene therapy is such a new science there were no current medical guidelines at the time of Mayweather's visit to the Institute.
That December, two months after his initial visit, Floyd received a spinal injection treatment and gene bath that the San Raffaele Scientific Institute presents as doing the following:
Fast twitch muscle fibers are known to control the ability for muscles to contract quickly- in other words, controlling speed. Our new experimental gene treatment genetically enhances a patients fast twitch muscles. Rather than focusing on enhancing slow-twitch fibers, enhancing fast-twitch muscle fibers has been seen to drastically increase endurance and speed.
Using our patented- genetic enhancement, test subjects have seen reaction time in simple motor tests increase from .5 of a second to .003 of a second for the same fast-twitch response.
Basically, genetically enhancing fast twitch fibers through our treatment puts a patient's muscles in a constant state of increased-repair, as if no damage or use ever occurs.
Floyd began receiving the institute's gene therapy treatments before his legendary fight with Diego Corrales - and another trip to Switzerland in August of 2002, a few months before his second fight with Jose Luis Castillo, coincide with an increased performance in the rematch; in which observers found Floyd to be faster and sharper.
In October 2007 the Nevada state boxing commission began a formal investigation into the legal and athletic ramifications of Floyd's unusual gene treatments. Burt Ryans, a ringside physician for the commission, had a few choice words on the matter, "Anyone who watches Mayweather fight knows he's too fast- and we've known why for years and been unable to nail the cheating bastard. He goes over to Europe and injects himself with Cheetah genes. Seriously- he's no longer a regular, human athlete. If boxers can't use steroids I think we should strip all of Floyd's achievements since his first gene injection!"
The official review threatened to become public and damage Floyd's reputation following his victory against Ricky Hatton- at which time Mayweather decided to retire. No investigation is pending for fighters who are no longer officially active in the sport. Ironically, Floyd, long known for brittle bones, may be suffering from a side effect of the gene-therapy that drains calcium production from the body in alarming rates.
The status of Mayweather's medical clearance would be pending investigation should he choose to return.
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