Comments Thread For: Matchroom Exec Says BBBofC Needs to Clarify Rules on Positive Drug Tests

[BIGPOPPAPUMP]

The CEO of Matchroom Boxing says it would behoove the British Boxing Board of Control to tighten up the language concerning some of its protocols, especially as it relates to drug testing, in order to avoid confusing situations such as the Chris Eubank Jr. vs. Conor Benn debacle that recently transpired.
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[JLC]

I think it goes like this: if you test positive for PEDs you fail. You’re welcome Eddie.

[IronDanHamza]

The rules are as follows;

If you test positive for a banned substance then you’ve attempted to cheat.

[IronDanHamza]

“Smith pinned the onus on the BBBoC”

I see what they did there

[famicommander]

The rules are as follows;

If you test positive for a banned substance then you’ve attempted to cheat.

Matchroom wants the same loophole they used when Dillian Whyte popped against Oscar Rivas. He failed a VADA test, but passed the UKAD test, and the BBBoC didn't have the resources to fight Matchroom in court when they asserted that the UKAD test was the one that mattered.

[VislorTurlough]

Matchroom like the East German swim team

[wrecksracer]

Drugs are bad Mkay

[1hourRun]

“If they decide that any VADA testing moving forward will be accepted by the British Boxing Board of Control and that’s a rule as of this day forward, then everyone understands that. It’s just that the normal or standard process was not followed in this instance.”

Matchroom was hoping that UKAD protocols would overrule VADA positive results. Like how Toprank managed to champion WADA over VADA standards in Oscar Valdez vs. Robson Conceicao. The fact that I'm reading that VADA is going to weigh as much as UKAD going forward is progress, for the corrupt British anti-doping bureaucratic system.

Imagine Tyson Fury being treated the same as Connor Benn? Fury would have never got to rob Christian Hammer or face Wladimir Klitschko, nor make the subsequent million dollar purses that the bum unjustly got paid.

[THC]

Only the Business side of boxing would try to justify an attempt to sneak around a positive finding issued by a more highly regarded testing body. How about basic ethics, Matchroom? Your fighter got caught cheating in a sport which is innately violent. Isn't that enough to cancel the event until that finding is confirmed negative?

[LAchargers373]

Benn and Eubank signed up to use VADA but the results are irrelevant apparently in the eyes of matchroom