Comments Thread For: Shakur Stevenson Says One-Year Suspension For Garcia Not Enough: 'It's Not Setting A Good Example'

[messimania]

A one year suspension in pro boxing is a joke. In other sports where you compete every week or every month you get two years. Pro boxers at this level compete once every 6-12 months so it's basically a slap on the wrist.

[DerekD]

A one year suspension in pro boxing is a joke. In other sports where you compete every week or every month you get two years. Pro boxers at this level compete once every 6-12 months so it's basically a slap on the wrist.

A lot of times in the NFL the suspension is 4 weeks for PED’s

[steeve steel]

Asking boxing to be clean is like asking proastitutes to be clean. Strong incentives and penalties will help, but it will never be 100%.

[Slip jab]

What Ryan did to Haney is a hate crime. That’s what ppl are trying to turn this into. In reality is the guy that wasn’t supposed to lose was smacked around all night. Just turn it into a race thing that is what everyone wants

[tomhawq]

Why only one year? Why not have him banned from the sport entirely? Looks like Haney's future has revolved around and depended on Garcia's presence.

[Slip jab]

Test immediately before the fight. If fighter has drugs in system, cancel fight. Is that possible?

They do test immediately before. The results aren’t known immediately.?what’s happening rn is the result of that test. Day before and day of

[F l i c k e r]

He hasn't been keeping up with boxing then.

Conor Benn had a test overturned
Nery was suspended for about a year
Canelo was suspended for just under a year

Garcia's suspension is about right.

[Mammoth]

There seems to be a drastic difference between how fighters feel about PED use and the average message board dummy. Surprising.

[African man62]

Have to agree with Shakur he is right boxing needs to get harder on the cheats. The sport is dangerous enough without performance enhancing drugs. Imagine if Tank Davis was on something when he knocked out Frank Martin thank god he wasn’t on anything

[MulaKO]

And Devin is already begging for a rematch
Maybe realizing he ain’t got chit without a good dance partner
Kind of hypocritical I’d say