Comments Thread For: Heavyweight Franklin Wants Harsher Penalties For Positive PED Tests

[Eff Pandas]

100%.

They need a universal agreement between at least the major boxing commissions to deal with PED users first off. Like everyone is doing the same sh^t & there isn't an assortment of outcomes between commissions like there is now. For example like the Benn situation which allowed him to fight in the US despite not being allowed to fight in the UK recently.

Then they need to start cracking down on mfers like in those old school drug dealing days. If you claim innocence & can't prove your innocent your punishment is gonna be worse than if you admit you used & flip on someone in boxing who hooked you up or flip on someone else you know who's used PEDs. Either there was a legit mistake you can prove, you snitch or you are losing 4, 5yrs of your career best case. They need to get more ruthless with weeding out ppl using PEDs.

Thirdly they need someone to step up & do legitimate 24/7/365 testing of any fighters ranked by the 4 main belt groups. They need to get serious about catching PED users like the UFC did like a decade or so ago. Fighters should be far more confident their opps aren't using banned substances to gain advantage.

[Boro]

So nobody cheated? The eggs are tainted, the meat is tainted, the tea is tainted. All of that is possible, but not a drug dealer?

No did you read what I said!? Boar isn't tainted it's naturally occuring...

Eggs are damn near impossible to find with clomid in them in the UK/EU because of food standards, he'd have to be sourcing them from somewhere else and then just happened to be taking the piss test the same day or within a day or two of eating eggs that are contaminated.

I know that's shocking for an American to hear because you bleach chicken and refrigerate eggs and stuff like that but EU actually have REAL food standards...

[Smash]

there u go the hint is in the headline, harsher penalties for positive ped tests, not for convicted drug cheats, for a positive test, that will light a fire under them

[richardt]

My respect for Franklin just went way up. He's being real....a really good person there.

[Boxviewer]

Track and field is handing out 4-year suspensions no problem. Some athletes suspended up to 11 years. Should be the same in boxing.

I couldn't agree more. Unfortunately, boxing is run by unprincipled capitalists for whom it's all about money. The wellbeing of the athletes has never been their priority. And media are not helping matter either. They keep on presenting PEDS cheaters as heroes instead of shaming them.

[tokon]

"This is not basketball. This is not soccer. People can take steroids in those sports and just perform better but we’re fighters. We get hit in the head and if you have an advantage people can die,"

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