Mosley/Mayweather Testing Official

[Main Event]

Floyd Mayweather Jr. and Shane Mosley have agreed to undergo Olympic-style drug testing for their May 1 fight in Las Vegas, which they hope will set a new standard for boxing.

Representatives of the fighters joined Travis Tygart of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency on Thursday to discuss the program in a conference call.

Testing has fallen under the jurisdiction of state athletic commissions, in most cases limited to urine testing. The Olympic-style testing the fighters agreed to includes random blood tests before and after the fights, and will be overseen by USADA.

Mayweather and Mosley met with officials from the anti-doping agency last weekend to provide whereabouts information and learn about the testing, which is similar to testing used in amateur sports.

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[Main Event]

Lets get it on

[B.U.R.N.E.R]

Props to Shane Mosley for not crying, whining and making a million excuses. Dude just wants to knock Floyds head off. Good ****.

[Horus]

History has now been made!!!!

[Horus]

Damn, this **** is really happening....
we are really witnessing a brand new standard being set in Professional boxing..

I hope Floyd stands firm on random drug testing from now on..

[hahaa]

Curious to see how this will affect camp, if any.

If there's no real distraction or inconvenience, commissions should venture the possibility.

GO MOSLEY!

[Boxin']

Props to Shane Mosley for not crying, whining and making a million excuses. Dude just wants to knock Floyds head off. Good ****.

If you're clean, that's how you act.

[Njord777]

Let me present two facts that we can all agree on:

1.) Manny Pacquiao for his own reasons (whether due to cultural supersitutions, pride, some moral stance, or actually using some illegal PED) decided to let a possible 30+ Million dollars in a Mayweather clash fall away, and fight Joshua Clottey instead - for no apparent marketing strategy- out of an actual desire not to take the tests- again, regardless of the reason for that.

2.) Sugar Shane Mosley has agreed to fight Floyd Mayweather and officialy undergo the exact same testing Pacquiao is not interested in undergoing.

I mean, this must garner a huge amount of respect from Manny Pacquaio fans, right?

I respect Shane stepping up and doing the testing. Maybe he's broken the ice and shown Manny it can be accomodated, and now Mayweather, if he wins, can have some negotiations with his camp....?

[hahaa]

Let me present two facts that we can all agree on:

1.) Manny Pacquiao for his own reasons (whether due to cultural supersitutions, pride, some moral stance, or actually using some illegal PED) decided to let a possible 30+ Million dollars in a Mayweather clash fall away, and fight Joshua Clottey instead - for no apparent marketing strategy- out of an actual desire not to take the tests- again, regardless of the reason for that.

2.) Sugar Shane Mosley has agreed to fight Floyd Mayweather and officialy undergo the exact same testing Pacquiao is not interested in undergoing.

I mean, this must garner a huge amount of respect from Manny Pacquaio fans, right?

I respect Shane stepping up and doing the testing. Maybe he's broken the ice and shown Manny it can be accomodated, and now Mayweather, if he wins, can have some negotiations with his camp....?

I applaud him for agreeing only because he was linked to use in the past.


He is in no position to decline such demand, historically and financially.

[DE100]

More Details:

Whether boxing can follow through on what a major promoter calls "the trigger" to implement "a gold standard of drug testing" in the sport remains unknown, but representatives of Floyd Mayweather Jr., Shane Mosley and Golden Boy Promotions on Thursday revealed their anti-doping procedures for their May 1 world welterweight title fight in Las Vegas.

"Floyd Mayweather took the lead on this, and it feels like it's time for boxing to take the lead on this," fight promoter Richard Schaefer, chief executive of Golden Boy, told reporters during a morning conference call.

The head of the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency, Travis Tygart, participated in the call and detailed that Mayweather and Mosley will be subject to random urine and/or blood tests from now "until and after the fight." A positive test, Tygart said, would leave the boxer suspended from the sport for two years, a condition he said both fighters have agreed to.

Mosley, of course, has admitted to using products supplied him in 2003 by Victor Conte, founder of the steroid-distributing Bay Area Laboratory Co-Operative (BALCO). Conte has said he gave Mosley designer steroids known as the "the cream" and "the clear" and the energy-boosting banned substance EPO, with documents showing that Mosley used the drugs for more than a two-week cycle that ended the week of his 2003 victory by decision over Oscar De La Hoya.

Nevada failed to identify any substances in Mosley's system as performance-enhancing drugs.

Mosley has sued Conte, saying he did not know the substances he took were performance-enhancing drugs. Conte claims he spelled that out to Mosley in a meeting the pair had in 2003 in Conte's Burlingame, Calif., office.

Under the new plan, Tygart said, "we're confident if he did cheat, he'll be caught and exposed. He's never been subject to our jurisdiction until now."

Mayweather's desire for a more stringent testing program than what Nevada offers -- random urine testing before and immediately after the bout -- contributed to the crumbling of negotiations the unbeaten (40-0) boxer had in talks to stage a super-fight against Manny Pacquiao earlier this year.

Pacquiao explained that he doesn't like needles, and feels that giving blood weakens him before a fight. A mediator stipulated that Pacquiao wouldn't have to give blood closer than 24 days before the fight, and then again after the bout. Mayweather didn't agree with the "settlement" and the fight was scrapped.

Tygart declined to answer what he thought of Pacquiao's stance, explaining generally that, "If you're clean, you have no problem being in this program. We see thousands of athletes involved in this program. Why should any athlete be forced to compromise his safety?"

Golden Boy's Schaefer added, "This is not about hitting a baseball or cycling up a hill. It's two guys hitting each other in the head. How could we not be for it?"

Mayweather's lead advisor, Leonard Ellerbe, said he's heard that the New York State Athletic Commission is interested in observing how USADA's handling of this event proceeds, and may incorporate some of the principles in future testing. Other state athletic commission members and promoters nationally have said that the expense of such a program is too excessive to become reality unilaterally.

"If this triggers a gold standard for drug testing in boxing, we're all for it," Schaefer said.

Tygart said that in addition to urine tests for steroids, blood tests will be implemented to search for such perfoirmance-enhancers as Human Growth Hormone, synthetic hemoglobin and blood transfusions.

He credited Mayweather for continuing to press for the intense testing, and said both fighters have agreed to provide their whereabouts all the way to fight night.

"When your sport's not doing everything to protect your rights, it's unfortunate, but athletes who speak out have in some cases been cast aside, feeling they don't have much of a voice," Tygart said. "But athletes have a protector."

- latimesblogs