Comments Thread For: Claressa Shields-Savannah Marshall Undisputed Fight To Include Full VADA Testing

[hitmanjosh]

Great call! Who knows what that thug (cant say her name or I'll be banned) might be on.

Thug, your old girl fighting too!

[Boxing Beast]

Thank god for clean sports. I mean who would want the contestants to be bigger, stronger, and in over all better health during a fist fight.

[1hourRun]

You'd know the answer to this better than me - how often has Amanda Serrano done VADA random drug testing? I used to think she was cute but her face has actually changed shape these last 18 months - now she has masculine features.

I would say starting around 2019, when women's boxing started to earn greater purses, which enabled Amanda and other women to afford VADA testing.

I remember that Heather Hardy failed VADA testing for Amanda Serrano around that time for a banned diuretic.

"Back in 2007, Amanda Serrano's sister Cindy Serrano and trainer Jordan Maldonado were accused of peddling steroids and other drugs to clients. This came after an undercover investigation into two gyms in New York City. The clients mostly consisted of aspiring boxers and bodybuilders."

Marshall by being a UK amateur and Olympian will have been subject to continuous WADA and UKAD testing, they are very strict on this stuff but WADA rules do differ from VADA.

VADA testing in womens boxing will be less common as it's expensive and they are paid a lot less.

Shocking news to me DougalDylan, I can not comment on this matter as I am uninformed of the facts. But one thing that I'm sure of is that Amanda Serrano has participated and successfully completed VADA Anti-Doping for a number of years now.

I do not trust UKAD, their policies of covering up failed PED results and leniency to repeated offenders like Tyson Fury, disqualifies them as credible in my book.