Comments Thread For: Mayweather-Mosley: Drug Testing Interview Transcript

[Carpe Diem]

This is great for our sport. Screw all you *******s, this is a positive thing for our sport.

[Puntoyhauf]

Regardless of what Floyd's real intentions are... I always support this kind of thorough testing in boxing. This is a must, and all the state commissions should..well..MUST take this into consideration.

Although this test may result in unwanted injuries in fighters (eg. swelling of the arm/ or part of the body which the blood were drew)

Fighters use both their arms/hands in this sport...their legs/feet too. careless or improper drawing of blood may result damage to a fighter. Though I'm confident that USADA is adept in doing this.

UKADA found its first HGH user only recently, USADA hasn't yet...as stated by Tygart in his previous interview.

[King Ju-Ju]

Ellerbe, Mayweather & that Schafer dude are a bunch of clowns.

[Puntoyhauf]

"We are cautiously optimistic," said Travis Tygart, CEO of USADA, the independent organization responsible for testing Olympic-bound American athletes. "They have developed an outstanding technology. And we're looking forward to helping them develop it further so it can have a practical use in anti-doping efforts."

Petricoin and Liotta's work recently was published in a peer-reviewed scientific journal.

HGH is one of the substances of choice for athletes seeking an edge. The synthetic version of a hormone produced naturally in the body can increase muscle mass, speed recovery from tough workouts and is often coupled with anabolic steroids.

There is a blood test for HGH that has been used at the last three Olympics, but it is expensive and no athletes have tested positive. In addition to questioning the test's effectiveness and cost, officials from Major League Baseball, the NFL and other pro leagues have been reluctant to adopt any kind of blood tests because of their invasiveness.

[edgarg]

This is exactly what boxing needs!! Boxing is a very dangerous sport, where someone coul be injured baldy or killed. Iam all for the strict testing!! If u have nothing to hide, there should be no problem!!

There are about 10 times as many people killed in American football as in boxing. And this doesn't take into account the permanent injuries......Boxing is down near the bottom of ALL sports as far as fatalities are concerned.

[edgarg]

Ellerbe, Mayweather & that Schafer dude are a bunch of clowns.

Since this is a Golden Balls "communique" I'd agree with that.

[psidiablo]

If xylocaine is banned floyd could no longer haver 30-40 punches per round..

[sNiTcH]

hopkins/jones no Random test?

[bolero]

This Blood test conducted by USADA or WADA are all useless just to cover-up the truth that GayWeather is Scared to fight Pacman.


According to NSAC, Keith Kizer-executive Director

“At the end of the day, USADA has no jurisdiction,” Keith Kizer, executive director of the Nevada Athletic Commission, told The Associated Press. “Like any medical test, if a fighter wants to do anything more than what we require, more power to them.”

Kizer said fighters can petition the commission to change its drug testing protocol, and Arum was open to doing that in December, before negotiations for Pacquiao-Mayweather unraveled.

Schaefer took that option to Mayweather’s team, but Kizer said they never responded.

“At the end of the day, this is about Pacquiao-Mayweather, and we’re not going to change our policies to help one fighter get a mind-game edge or another edge over another fighter,” Kizer said. “That being said, we have over the years revised and expanded our policy. We added steroid testing about nine years ago, out of competition testing a few years back.

“More drug testing is better, everyone would agree to that, but there is a limit.”

[pasawayako]

this is just a joke, i don't think this is legit.