should a boxer be allowed to be a commisioner too when he fights?

[BrushMyCage]

you're sig.

were you high when you watched that movie?

[baracuda]

This is BS anyway, drug testing has been demanded before and Olympic drug testing has been done before in boxing.

dont kid yourself man....you know damn well were talking about pro boxing, not a kiddie match up......

[Sweet Jesus]

were you high when you watched that movie?

No, but it was great nonetheless.

[$partacus]

dont kid yourself man....you know damn well were talking about pro boxing, not a kiddie match up......

Tyson demanded Holyfield to do a drug test, Arthur Abraham has got olympic style testing in his contract. Isn't that pro boxing?

[iskucha03]

yes commissioner floyd mayweather jr.

[baracuda]

Tyson demanded Holyfield to do a drug test, Arthur Abraham has got olympic style testing in his contract. Isn't that pro boxing?

a drug test..........not olympic style testing.......when did AA do an olympic style drug testing?.......

[boojee]

NO. only *****s would vote yes.

[$partacus]

a drug test..........not olympic style testing.......when did AA do an olympic style drug testing?.......

http://translate.google.de/translate?js=y&prev=_t&hl=de&ie=UTF-8&layout=1&eotf=1&u=http://www.faz.net/s/Rub9CD731D06F17450CB39BE001000DD173/Doc~E1632C5206D4C4830B5D6295783DB5773~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html&sl=de&tl=en

It's in german so i translated it with google.

[El Jesus]

a drug test..........not olympic style testing.......when did AA do an olympic style drug testing?.......

its in his contract with Sauerland. someone posted a german translation of what happened (jkaisen). regardless like i said, asking for a new precedent to evolve with the times is nothing new. its like reducing 100 round fights to 15 rounders, to what we have today with 12 rounders. as new information becomes available, issues and solutions evolve with the times.

like i said, the way you word it is a slippery slope and its almost misleading, given that our sport has no real governing body and no universal commision, the big money fights/fighters always set the precedent and standard for the rules and sometimes those rules are bent or changed altogether.

Im sure you are aware of what happened when antonio margarito fought miguel cotto and bob arum threatened to pull out of the fight if the glove size rule wasnt changed and he basically forced the NSAC to change the rules, even though they were made to protect the fighter.

[Xyei]

standards as in things that have been done and used before.....all gloves and ring sizes have been used,catchweights have been done before.......its all part of standards......olympic style drug testing?...never been done or demanded ....

Yeah but we now live in an age where steroids are running ramped in sports, unlike the golden era for boxing. We shouldn't change things because "it's never been done in the past?" Going by your logic, if Pacquiao had just agreed to the testing, it would be standard protocol for all professional boxing bouts. If it was, you'd have no problem with it?

It has to start somewhere.